Crossword Answers For: Monday, February 17, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: You receive it in a mess => FOOD
5 Across: Where Howard Wolowitz from The Big Bang Theory got his master's degree => MIT
8 Across: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beating Congressman Joe Crowley, for one => UPSET
10 Across: Maui or Hawaii bird that lays eggs around Christmas time => NENE
11 Across: James Perkins Jr. was this Alabama city's first African American mayor => SELMA
12 Across: Betting calculations that oddly could be even => ODDS
13 Across: Common Caribbean game fish that can be as large as 53lb => SNOOK
14 Across: Conspiracy theorist Sibrel who still believes the moon landings were faked => BART
15 Across: Author and executive Harvey who founded Tech Women Today => CECILIA
17 Across: Like many members of Cristiano Ronaldo's fan club => ADORING
20 Across: Baltic city where Baryshnikov was born => RIGA
21 Across: One of France's national theaters on Paris's Rue Corneille => ODEON
25 Across: Actor Jamie Foxx's real first name => ERIC
26 Across: Kind of jumpy, maybe => TENSE
27 Across: Forces group that flies one flag that carries the words Don't Tread on Me => NAVY
28 Across: Betty, who wrote NY Times bestseller Embraced by the Light => EADIE
29 Across: Card that counts for four points in bridge => ACE
30 Across: The 49ers recently did it => LOST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Thing to kick up => FUSS
2 Down: Go first at Sotheby's => OPEN
3 Down: Where the Michelin-starred Maaemo restaurant is => OSLO
4 Down: Form of government championed by Jefferson => DEMOCRACY
5 Down: What the Cowardly Lion got from the Wizard => MEDAL
6 Down: Endangered Madagascan lemur never bred in captivity => INDRI
7 Down: Hard covering on a seed => TESTA
9 Down: Mr. Sulu actor George, LGBT rights activist => TAKEI
10 Down: Don't sweat it! => NOBIGDEAL
16 Down: Bit of bread with a pic of Ben on it, informally => CNOTE
17 Down: The Golden Knights' T-Mobile, for one => ARENA
18 Down: Noel winner Paul ___ who was once the Lucasian Professor of Math (like Stephen Hawking) at Cambridge => DIRAC
19 Down: Pointed architectural arch => OGIVE
22 Down: Spore or morph opening => ENDO
23 Down: End of many conditions => OSIS
24 Down: What Nair does for hair, this did too, until 2002 => NEET

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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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