Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: One with a Claus in his contract? => ELF
4 Across: Something cats and hockey goalies have in common => PADS
8 Across: One in the corner office who might have their own washroom, briefly => EXEC
9 Across: What Dr. J and Richard Roundtree once had in common => AFROS
11 Across: NEAR Shoemaker or Sakigake => SPACEPROBE
13 Across: Museum in Burlington, Wisconsin dedicated to this type of toy => TOP
14 Across: Poker player who doesn't stay? => RAISER
15 Across: According to Christie, Hercule Poirot lived as a child in a quiet retreat in the Ardennes near this Belgian town => SPA
17 Across: Civil rights org. HQed in NYC and headed by Roy Innis => CORE
18 Across: Many an SNL performer who often makes quite an impression => APER
20 Across: Raw material the sugar shack could use => SAP
21 Across: Flower cluster produced on a single stem, as in the lily of the valley => RACEME
23 Across: Clothing item that Oddjob was proficient using as a weapon => HAT
26 Across: The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 => ATOMICPILE
28 Across: What understudies study => LINES
29 Across: To Mexicans, this is just a crock => OLLA
30 Across: They're 1 in 139,838,160 of landing the winning numbers in EuroMillions => ODDS
31 Across: Well-known singer and actor whose last name was really Kappelhoff => DAY

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Dubai event planned for this year => EXPO
2 Down: Small adjustment last made on December 31, 2016 due to the day getting longer => LEAPSECOND
3 Down: Lawyer Ajit Pai currently serves as the chairman of this indep. agcy of the US government => FCC
4 Down: Nickname of the 1954 Nobel winner for literature, who first picked up the name in Pamplona, Spain => PAPA
5 Down: Where Eswatini and São Tome and Príncipe are => AFRICA
6 Down: In its stock center, Cornell University maintains cultures of hundreds of species of this genus of flies => DROSOPHILA
7 Down: Like designated drivers, hopefully => SOBER
8 Down: Conclusion that usually takes things to the extreme? => EST
10 Down: Like Antarctica's Dry Valleys area => SERE
12 Down: Time period that's often the savior of many crossword constructors (as in this instance) => ERA
16 Down: Course requirements for aspiring doctors => PREMED
18 Down: Sea that shrunk from over 26,000 sq. miles in 1960 to about 2,600 sq. miles by 2008 => ARAL
19 Down: Popular barbecuing spot that's named from the Spanish for courtyard => PATIO
20 Down: US federal agcy that enforces the Investment Advisers Act => SEC
22 Down: Lena's state that increased its population by only .3% between the 2010 census and 2019 (abbr.) => MISS
24 Down: Austin & ___, comedy TV show that ran on the Disney Channel from 2011 to 2016 => ALLY
25 Down: Something they probably serve at The Athenaeum Hotel in London's Mayfair => TEA
27 Down: Small vegetable container => POD

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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