Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: The character who tells the story of his life in How I Met Your Mother => TED
4 Across: Dr. Sanjay ___ who won an Emmy for reporting from Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina => GUPTA
9 Across: Country code for the nation who won its only Olympic gold ever at Athens in 2004 => ISR
10 Across: Red wine with an aura of the English upper class surrounding it => CLARET
11 Across: ___ Guinea, the only African state where Spanish is an official language => EQUATORIAL
13 Across: County seat of Grand County, Utah => MOAB
14 Across: US agcy. that aids entrepreneurs with activities covering capital, contracts and counseling => SBA
15 Across: Single syllable sound of reproach => TSK
16 Across: 72 yr. old Western group currently with 35 members => OAS
17 Across: Snickers morsel => NUT
18 Across: File extension of many internet graphics files => PNG
19 Across: Rachel McAdams True Detective Season 2 role, Detective Sergeant ___ Bezzerides => ANI
20 Across: Big-bottomed fruit => PEAR
22 Across: React to a FOIA request, maybe => DECLASSIFY
26 Across: Christopher who acted opposite Brooke in The Blue Lagoon => ATKINS
27 Across: It eventually becomes quite refined => ORE
28 Across: Wins the battle of the bulge, oddly => LOSES
29 Across: One of the weapons systems that Raytheon produces (abbr.) => TOW

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: It often ends in sudden death => TIE
2 Down: Letters on the door to a lawyer's office => ESQ
3 Down: Some things Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy is quite familiar with => DRUMSTICKS
4 Down: Dollop of melted cheddar, e.g. => GLOB
5 Down: Egypt-Syria fed. from 1958-61 => UAR
6 Down: Notable event at Attica in 1971 => PRISONRIOT
7 Down: It can get out of hot water, but only when there's a string attached => TEABAG
8 Down: Rocket that recently launched the first Starliner crew capsule => ATLAS
10 Down: Windy City org. that has an Adopt-A-Station program => CTA
12 Down: Good to go, as far as NASA is concerned => AOK
15 Down: Find the correct frequency => TUNETO
17 Down: Longtime Federer rival and 12-time French Open Men's Singles champion => NADAL
18 Down: Sound systems, for short => PAS
20 Down: Critiques very harshly => PANS
21 Down: Symbol on a Mariners' cap => ESS
23 Down: What Huckleberry Finn referred to as a stretcher => LIE
24 Down: 'Do that might impede someone's view, maybe => FRO
25 Down: What Voldemort's 13 and a half inch wand was made from => YEW

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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