Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Item that could be inflated, deflated, massaged, or bruised => EGO
4 Across: The Bakkers' former org., based in SC, that collapsed in scandal in 1987 => PTL
7 Across: Charli D'Amelio, with over 43 million followers, has been labelled by the NYT as the reigning queen of this social media service => TIKTOK
11 Across: One of Nigeria's principal languages (var.) => IBO
12 Across: Target released from a trap => CLAYPIGEON
14 Across: NY based stationary bike company launched using a Kickstarter campaign that raised $1.16 billion via its 2019 IPO => PELOTON
15 Across: The Georges Sand and Eliot, notably => WOMEN
18 Across: Actor Santoni who played the anti-abortion, neurotic, unhygienic restaurateur Poppie, on Seinfeld => RENI
19 Across: ___ my dad always used to say ... => ORAS
20 Across: Word which may follow yes and often seems to be addressed to Bob => SIREE
21 Across: What Boston's Buffalo Tom sang about in 1992 => MINERAL
23 Across: Like some cups at restaurants => BOTTOMLESS
27 Across: State now governed by Kay Ivey (abbr.) => ALA
28 Across: Rip to shreds => TEARUP
29 Across: They could block for, or receive passes from, the QB => TES
30 Across: Word that often comes before questions, advice or takers => ANY

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Mail Boxes ___ (chain that became The UPS Store) => ETC
2 Down: Actor Bellows who played Tommy Williams, murder victim, in The Shawshank Redemption => GIL
3 Down: Unique Canadian cheese named after the location of the Trappist monks who originally made it => OKA
4 Down: South Africa's prime minister and apartheid supporter Botha of the '70s and '80s => PIETER
5 Down: Millionaire oilman Pickens who wrote The First Billion is the Hardest in 2008 => TBOONE
6 Down: ___ Bunch, educator, historian and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution => LONNIE
8 Down: Lay out a lot of characters, maybe => TYPESET
9 Down: Store window sign that might be flipped twice a day => OPEN
10 Down: Just over 3,280 ft. => KIL
13 Down: Animal named from a Greek word meaning tribe of hairy women => GORILLA
15 Down: This northern hairy-nosed Australian marsupial had a population estimated at about 230 in 2015 => WOMBAT
16 Down: Baseball's The Iron Man, for 21 seasons => ORIOLE
17 Down: The roller coasters at SeaWorld San Diego and SeaWorld Orlando => MANTAS
20 Down: Org. HQed in Alexandria, Virginia, that unites architectural, engineering, construction, environmental and facility management companies and individuals => SAME
22 Down: Country code assigned by the IOC at the Rio Olympics to athletes displaced from their native countries => ROT
24 Down: Time period increasingly difficult for crossword creators to find new clues for => ERA
25 Down: What Floyd Set the Controls for => SUN
26 Down: Occupation of General Boris Karpov, Jason Bourne's one-time friend => SPY

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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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