Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Uses the knocker => RAPS
5 Across: Magazine that had Weird Al Yankovic as its very first guest editor in issue #533 in 2015 => MAD
8 Across: How NBC's dramedy This Is Us can be described => SERIOCOMIC
11 Across: Skin problem that might arise when handling Urtica dioica plants => NETTLERASH
12 Across: Roth, director of 2018's Death Wish => ELI
13 Across: Stephen King's fifth book in his The Dark Tower series: Wolves of the ___ => CALLA
14 Across: Last three letters in a list, often => ETC
15 Across: Snoop Dogg's fo shizzle my nizzle, basically => LINGO
16 Across: Water ___, alternate name for the American dipper which occasionally gets snapped up by large fish => OUSEL
18 Across: Rami Malek can do it => ACT
20 Across: Cool-looking leisure suit fabric, fifty years ago => ORLON
21 Across: Leading tenor role in the John Adams opera Nixon in China which premiered in Houston in 1987 => MAO
22 Across: These can be visualized by an obstetric ultrasonographer => HEARTBEATS
25 Across: Shower aftermath, sometimes => METEORITES
26 Across: ___ Gold, owner of American Jewelry and Loan that used to be seen on truTV's Hardcore Pawn => LES
27 Across: In 1819 Keats wrote them on Indolence, on Melancholy and to Psyche => ODES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Type of recorder the Watergate Tapes were recorded on => REELTOREEL
2 Down: State in no uncertain terms, say => ARTICULATE
3 Down: One may be shaved, though shaving the other is pretty standard => PIT
4 Down: Seattle rapper who released his Soon Enough album in early 2019 => SOL
5 Down: Bugs whose rival gunned down 7 members of his gang in 1929's Saint Valentine's Day Massacre => MORAN
6 Down: What America Online and Time Warner did in 2000 => AMALGAMATE
7 Down: Yanks your humerus out of its socket (and it's not humorous) => DISLOCATES
8 Down: Two time Super Bowl winner and NY Giants guard Chris ___ (Rtrd. 2014) => SNEE
9 Down: ___ Gershwin Palmer, host of the ongoing Welcome to Night Vale podcast => CECIL
10 Down: One-third of a quick three-step movement => CHA
15 Down: Slowly, from Zubin Mehta's point of view => LENTO
17 Down: Results of lying too much? => SORES
19 Down: What they do to a coin in Netflix's The Witcher according to Jaskier the Bard's song => TOSS
20 Down: German physicist Georg's eponymous unit => OHM
23 Down: Nickname of the US Army's 1st Infantry Division, for short => BRO
24 Down: Holiday on 1 Shawwal => EID

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 33 clues are solved in the section above.
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