Crossword Answers For: Monday, April 20, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Part of the DoD that's under the leadership of Vice Admiral Jon A. Hill => MDA
4 Across: Fl. oz.'s twosome => TBSPS
9 Across: It get quite thin if you get high => AIR
10 Across: Prepares for a take off from Yakutsk, often => DEICES
11 Across: Term for which RCA held the trademark until 1951, when the corporation released its use to the public domain => CRT
12 Across: What Russia did to Sevastopol in late February 2014, essentially => INVADE
13 Across: Where to find wolverines => ANNARBOR
15 Across: Leslie ___ Jr., Tony-winning best actor for the role of Aaron Burr in Broadway's Hamilton => ODOM
16 Across: Gizmos that will help you with your banking => CUES
18 Across: 200 foot redwood that Julia Butterfly Hill lived in, 180 feet above the ground, for 738 days in 1997-9, in order to save it from being felled (she did!) => LUNA
20 Across: Manny who managed the Nats and the Indians, was a broadcast analyst for ESPN and is now bench coach for the Mariners => ACTA
22 Across: Town now part of Mexico, attacked by pirates Laurens de Graaf, Nicholas van Hoorn and Michel de Grammont in 1683 => VERACRUZ
24 Across: Liam who played Cristovao Ferreira in 2016's Silence => NEESON
26 Across: Quark's nemesis on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine => ODO
27 Across: The misbehaving Cupcake Dog from Animal Planet's It's Me or the Dog => STAINS
28 Across: Margaret Edson's 1999 Pulitzer-winning one-act play => WIT
29 Across: Anthony ___, immunologist and head of NIAID, who is a member of the Trump administration's pandemic task force => FAUCI
30 Across: The note that was a needle pulling thread according to Maria in The Sound of Music => SOH

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Chinese territory of the western Pearl River Delta that was ruled by Portugal until 1999 => MACAO
2 Down: Traditional Bavarian dress where legend dictates the placement of the apron knot indicates the wearer's marital status => DIRNDL
3 Down: Artistic style known as modernismo catalan to Barcelonans => ARTNOUVEAU
4 Down: Third year of the 192nd ancient Greek Olympiad => TENBC
5 Down: Army ants' temporary nest constructed from living ants to protect the queen => BIVOUAC
6 Down: They're out standing in their fields? => SCARECROWS
7 Down: Acronym for a store's debit card keypad (abbr.) => PED
8 Down: Ostro-Scirocco is inscribed on this compass point marker on the wind rose in St. Peter's Square => SSE
10 Down: Chloe Zhao of The Rider or Asghar Farhadi of A Separation, for short => DIR
14 Down: Like Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity => AMNESIC
17 Down: Place where some experts shoot from morning until night => STUDIO
19 Down: The last part of the San Francisco Treat? => ARONI
21 Down: Mercury, to medieval alchemists => AZOTH
23 Down: Org. that promotes the study of onomastics and whose annual conference is in SF next January => ANS
24 Down: France Cordova, once president of Purdue University, was director of this US govt. agency from 2014 until March of this year => NSF
25 Down: Basque separatist gp. once classed as a terrorist org. by most N. American and European countries => ETA

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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