Crossword Answers For: Friday, February 7, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Mixed with NaOH this makes seawater => HCL
4 Across: Blink-182 released this studio album, their eighth, oddly, in September last year => NINE
8 Across: Event. won by Canada's Simon Whitfield, that debuted at the Olympics in summer of 2000 => TRIATHLON
11 Across: Town where Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder, picked up his MS degree => TUSCALOOSA
13 Across: 33% of an iris bloom => PETAL
14 Across: WNBA's Bird of the Seattle Storm who also has 4 Olympic gold medals and 4 FIBA Women's World Cup gold medals => SUE
15 Across: Chestnut-colored ruminant that's also the fourth largest city in Alberta, Canada => REDDEER
18 Across: 13 vis-a-vis 299 => DIVISOR
21 Across: Athlete from Asmara's nation, on Olympic score boards => ERI
22 Across: Nobel laureate who delivered his acceptance speech only 5 days before becoming ineligible to receive the award => DYLAN
26 Across: Bright, well-known, red supergiant that is rapidly (in stellar terms) and bizarrely dimming => BETELGEUSE
29 Across: Just keeps talking... => NATTERSON
30 Across: Interjection that comes from the Latin for weary => ALAS
31 Across: Drummer ___ Cool of Green Day who released Revolution Radio in 2016 => TRE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Letters usually not typed into your web browser => HTTP
2 Down: Neil, Sixx, Mars and Lee's Motley ___ => CRUE
3 Down: Craig has one on-line => LIST
4 Down: Pro league where Vegas almost took the cup in its first year in the league => NHL
5 Down: UN agcy. that often deals with child and slave labor => ILO
6 Down: One of several shown on the movie poster for Eastwood's Hang 'Em High => NOOSE
7 Down: Follow in succession => ENSUE
9 Down: Biological sub-class containing an estimated million species including spider mites and chiggers => ACARI
10 Down: Sometimes exaggerated things from anglers => TALES
12 Down: Word preceding Lingus in Irish aviation circles => AER
16 Down: What Fagin's artful accomplice did, apparently => DODGE
17 Down: Fred who co-starred in TV's Hunter in the eighties after 9 years as an LA Rams defensive end => DRYER
18 Down: Senior Senator from Nebraska Fischer => DEB
19 Down: Polish sprinter Szewinska who uniquely held world records in 100, 200 and 400 meters => IRENA
20 Down: Like some signs and statistics => VITAL
23 Down: Emotion that seems to end a lot of established and promising careers => LUST
24 Down: Ten-stringed instrument mentioned in the Bible that has not been traced anywhere else => ASOR
25 Down: Official bird of the state of Hawai'i => NENE
27 Down: Important info for the person picking you up when your flight from Tokyo lands => ETA
28 Down: They're subordinate to capts. => LTS

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This crossword has 14 across clues and 21 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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