Crossword Answers For: Friday, March 6, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: ___ Roberts, Senator from Kansas since 1997 who will not seek reelection this year => PAT
4 Across: Band often seen, but not heard, in Japan => OBI
7 Across: Most populous member of NATO => USA
8 Across: What Leo the lion did before MGM movies => ROARED
12 Across: The most common one in the US is 2nd, oddly => STREETNAME
14 Across: Knocks briskly on the window => RAPS
15 Across: Billionaire Kroenke of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment => STAN
16 Across: The Japanese bean-throwing custom in February is intended to drive out these ogres => ONI
17 Across: Word than comes before rappers and actors ___-T and ___ Cube => ICE
18 Across: Whitney Museum of American Art has a giant one of these by Claes Oldenburg => BLT
19 Across: Traditional Maori performing art involving rhythmic swinging of weights => POI
20 Across: Unabashedly sing one's praises => LAUD
22 Across: Val's office buddy and confidante from Jan Eliot's comic strip Stone Soup => RENA
23 Across: Wipe off the face of the earth => OBLITERATE
26 Across: Glamdring, Dramborleg and Grond in Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasies => WEAPON
27 Across: ___ Murphy, granddaughter of John Hammond, the owner of Jurassic Park => LEX
28 Across: Meet a Texas Hold 'Em bet => SEE
29 Across: Item the Turks and Caicos Islands stopped observing in '15 but started up again in '18 (abbr.) => EDT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Boil fluid => PUS
2 Down: Early navigational aid invented about 2,200 years ago => ASTROLABE
3 Down: Name originally used for what is now called the European wolf spider => TARANTULA
4 Down: They're the reasons we keep searching in vein? => ORES
5 Down: Something that will fail a CAPTCHA, hopefully => BOT
6 Down: Many, many Scotsmen => IANS
9 Down: Alternate name for a bishop's superhumerale => RATIONALE
10 Down: All skin and bone => EMACIATED
11 Down: Canadian First Nations people inhabiting the boreal and Arctic regions => DENE
13 Down: Letters that can open a pen or a tome => EPI
18 Down: NYT columnist Charles who tweeted This debate is a mess about last week's Charleston Democratic candidates' event => BLOW
19 Down: John Hollinger's all-in-one basketball rating that Michael Jordan still topped with a 27.91 rating last month (abbr.) => PER
21 Down: Some things you can dunk chips into => DIPS
22 Down: Marine Corps corporal Gagnon who helped raise the flag on Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima in 1945 => RENE
24 Down: Notable part of a sloth, perhaps => TOE
25 Down: Phone no. adjunct => EXT

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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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