Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Pulitzer-winner Van Duyn, who was US Poet Laureate in 1992-3 => MONA
5 Across: The discovery of penicillin in 1928, for example => ACCIDENT
9 Across: Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy winner for the song Flashdance => IRENECARA
11 Across: Van ___, Ohio, the place in the US where pungent Liederkranz cheese (reintroduced in 2010) was produced until 1981 => WERT
12 Across: March of the Penguins director ___ Jacquet => LUC
13 Across: Knocked on the noggin with a knuckleball, say => BEANED
15 Across: All-yr. clock setting for Muscat => GST
16 Across: For hanging on this you can receive a technical foul => RIM
17 Across: Reddish dyes once used by painters => ROSETS
19 Across: Sounds often heard when showing pics of the newest member of the family => AWS
20 Across: Author Gerritsen who writes about the crime-solving duo of Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles => TESS
21 Across: King who saw the loss of a lot of American colonies but still managed to defeat Napoleon => GEORGEIII
24 Across: The catch of all catches, in a way => IDEALMAN
25 Across: ___ nitrate, chemical added to diesel fuel as an ignition improver => AMYL

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: One who makes his money by making money => MINTER
2 Down: William Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, for one => ODE
3 Down: Giant involved in information technology and member of Japan's Sumitomo Group => NEC
4 Down: One effect of marijuana, apparently => ANALGESIA
5 Down: Artist and activist who won the inaugural Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent (2012) => AIWEIWEI
6 Down: Vanilla-flavored alternative to A&W Root Beer => CREAMSODA
7 Down: Group established in 1954, located on the Swiss-French border, that runs the largest particle physics laboratory in the world => CERN
8 Down: Completely depends upon => TRUSTSIN
10 Down: Has a job like Nicholson => ACTS
13 Down: Talk glowingly about your achievements and go on about your Employee of the Month awards, for example => BRAG
14 Down: Encouraging comment when you want to hear the juicy details => DOTELL
18 Down: 465 mile Russian-Ukrainian river flowing through Kursk and Putyvl => SEIM
22 Down: Sleep phase that experts testified Michael Jackson went 60 days without entering => REM
23 Down: Writer Talese whose given name derives from that of his grandfather => GAY

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This crossword has 14 across clues and 15 down clues. In total 29 clues are solved in the section above.
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