Crossword Answers For: Thursday, April 16, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Language that eventually generated the word slogan, originally meaning battle cry => ERSE
5 Across: Former pro football player Jack, who was also Dole's running mate in the 1996 presidential election => KEMP
9 Across: Suffix in many names for some pretty big prehistoric beasts => SAUR
10 Across: Official plants for Canada's Province of Manitoba => CROCI
11 Across: Bad attribute that would make a really lousy waiter => IMPATIENCE
13 Across: Stephanie, President Trump's third press secretary => GRISHAM
14 Across: Dialect spoken by about 30,000 people in northern Italy's Rabbi Valley and the lower Sole Valley => NONES
15 Across: Bonnie beauty from Bannockburn, say => LASS
19 Across: Tracked mass transit system in S. Cal. started in 1891 => SDER
20 Across: Ornamental loop along the edge of a ribbon or on lace => PICOT
21 Across: Kayleigh, President Trump's fourth press secretary => MCENANY
23 Across: Staged => THEATRICAL
26 Across: Most Monopoly properties have six different ones => RENTS
27 Across: Points value that doesn't appear on any Scrabble tile => NINE
28 Across: William, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for the Broadway play Picnic => INGE
29 Across: The Sphynx breed of these are unlikely to generate soft and furry feelings => CATS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Endorses online, for example => ESIGNS
2 Down: Monsanto herbicide used mainly on sorghum in the 90's and now on the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory => RAMROD
3 Down: Position of one just lying in a field at night watching the heavens => SUPINE
4 Down: Trademarked name for one who's not totally confident about doing newspaper crosswords => ERASERMATE
5 Down: Slangy name for the heavily guarded hospital at Kuntsevo where Boris Yeltsin ended up in 2007 => KREMLININC
6 Down: Time between jobs, seemingly, to impatient freelancers => EON
7 Down: Last year of the 12th century, to stone carvers of the day => MCC
8 Down: Operating system that a lot of Android devices run => PIE
10 Down: Gina Haspel's org. => CIA
12 Down: 501(c)(3) non-profit org. that promotes old show places and awards the Jeffrey Weiss Literary Awards => THS
16 Down: Tree a giraffe will snack on => ACACIA
17 Down: Like n and r, in phonetics => SONANT
18 Down: Options pictured on many hairdressers' walls => STYLES
20 Down: Erik ___ Sullivan, awarded the 2000 YoungStar Award in the Best Young Ensemble Cast: Television category => PER
22 Down: Complaint that keyboarding experts may suffer from (abbr.) => CTS
23 Down: El ___, nickname of Mexico's national football team => TRI
24 Down: Something that's often right over the clutch => HEN
25 Down: Chang's closest relative? => ENG

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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