Crossword Answers For: Thursday, March 5, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Nickname shared by a president and a basketball player => LBJ
4 Across: Get warmed up before the marathon, say => JOG
7 Across: Cat ___, longtime Iron Chef on Iron Chef America => CORA
8 Across: Item absorbed by the ozone layer, for short => UVRAY
11 Across: Algerian city where Albert Camus' The Plague was set => ORAN
12 Across: Italian white wine made from Garganega and Trebbiano grapes => SOAVE
13 Across: Characters Ralph Anderson and Jack Hoskins of HBO's The Outsider => DETECTIVES
15 Across: Detective Antigone Bezzerides' nickname from HBO's True Detective => ANI
16 Across: Cow's outside => HIDE
17 Across: What many journalists (and some crossword constructors) work on => SPEC
19 Across: Common ingredient in Nigerian cuisine => YAM
22 Across: Enzyme used in assembling chains of nucleic acids to make DNA and RNA => POLYMERASE
25 Across: Biological class of the honey bee parasite and The Lyme Disease tick => ACARI
26 Across: Drives up the wall => IRKS
27 Across: Some unauthorized warehouse events with glowsticks and psychedelics, maybe => RAVES
28 Across: Poet Gary Soto from Fresno wrote Neighborhood ___ in '92 => ODES
29 Across: Lumberjill's feller? => AXE
30 Across: N. Korea's secret police agency that reports directly to Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un => SSD

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Actress who received her Honorary Academy Award in LA on March 25, 1991 => LOREN
2 Down: Major Slovakian city that straddles the Danube => BRATISLAVA
3 Down: Anchor Pauley of CBS Sunday Morning => JANE
4 Down: William Barr's department, right now => JUSTICE
5 Down: The asteroid Vesta was confirmed to be this shape by NASA'a Dawn space mission => OVOID
6 Down: Likely places to be part of Stephen King novels => GRAVEYARDS
7 Down: Zep's final studio album => CODA
9 Down: Abbr. that follows every state in DC except for California and Ohio => AVE
10 Down: Nonprofit magazine that was profiled on Neil Young's 2015 tour promoting his The Monsanto Years album => YES
14 Down: Lady's undergarment with spaghetti straps => CHEMISE
18 Down: Oven-safe product introduced by the Corning Glass Works in 1915 => PYREX
20 Down: Used the information desk => ASKED
21 Down: The Dining Facilities Administration Center (DFAC) was once commonly called this => MESS
22 Down: Asuncion athlete's Olympic country code => PAR
23 Down: Traditional component of high Andean cuisine => OCA
24 Down: Waterways throughout South America => RIOS

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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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