Crossword Answers For: Thursday, April 2, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Movie actress who has hot lips and is a Ms. Pacman fanatic => SWIT
5 Across: Africa's ___ Depression where the Nubian, Somali, and Arabian geological plates meet => AFAR
9 Across: One of 163 in the Burj Khalifa => FLOOR
10 Across: Female polar bear in National Geographic's Arctic Tale ('07), narrated by Queen Latifah => NANU
11 Across: Sweden's Father of modern taxonomy Carl von ___ who published Species Plantarum in 1753 under the name Carl Linnaeus => LINNE
12 Across: Pontiacs of the sixties known affectionately as Goats => GTOS
13 Across: Obamacare, aka. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care ___ => ACT
14 Across: One of the original Pointer Sisters => ANITA
16 Across: Washington, for one, for short => GEO
17 Across: ___ et mon droit, motto of England's Queen Elizabeth II which, oddly, is in French => DIEU
18 Across: Empty, like a mathematical set => NULL
20 Across: Course that might be taken along with U.S. citizenship test prep, maybe => ESL
23 Across: There's a few in Mississippi but Alabama, right next door, doesn't have any at all => ESSES
24 Across: Word that can precede cow, dog, horse, lion, monkey, snake or wolf and even cucumber => SEA
25 Across: Where Socrates may have strolled => STOA
26 Across: Where Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019 after he had overthrown Sadiq al-Mahdi in 1989 => SUDAN
28 Across: Lady's fancy needlecase, derived from the French word for keeper or holder => ETUI
29 Across: One who wears a thawb in Suwayq, probably => OMANI
30 Across: New edition of an old book, in brief => REPR
31 Across: Verbal dissents that may block a passage => NAYS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Cut some bread => SLICE
2 Down: Something you might have before the drunken shrimp, say => WONTONSOUP
3 Down: The v-150 Planet Defender is also known as the v-150 ___ cannon in the Star Wars universe => ION
4 Down: Singer's foot pedal => TREADLE
5 Down: Actress Harmon who portrayed A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael on Law & Order => ANGIE
6 Down: Time for a bacchanal in the Big Easy => FATTUESDAY
7 Down: Bubalus depressicornis is the lowland species of this Sulawesi bovine => ANOA
8 Down: Letters that once followed a lots of Toys before Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2017 => RUS
9 Down: Nepal has the world's only non-quadrilateral one in a sovereign nation => FLAG
15 Down: Harry, Everybody's Talkin' singer of 1968 => NILSSON
19 Down: Carrier that operated the hourly shuttle from Logan to LaGuardia and Ronald Reagan up until October 2015 => USAIR
21 Down: Young of Blade Runner 2049 and Penn of The Gunman => SEANS
22 Down: Law professor and civil rights activist Guinier of Harvard => LANI
23 Down: It's often the end for Nan, Jean and Ann => ETTE
25 Down: Old Indian unit of capacity exactly equal to 1 litre => SER
27 Down: Thurman who played Nancy on Netflix's Chambers => UMA

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This crossword has 20 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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