Crossword Answers For: Thursday, January 16, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Royal honor awarded to Adele in 2013 (abbr.) => MBE
4 Across: #1 bud 4 life => BFF
7 Across: Fed. agency that manages financial assistance => USAID
9 Across: Item used to eavesdrop => EAR
10 Across: ___ Robinson, charter inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who made Georgia famous => RAYCHARLES
13 Across: Oxfam or Amnesty Intl., e.g. => NGO
14 Across: Phase with lots of chills and shivering, often => ONSET
15 Across: Willem Einthoven was awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on this => ECG
17 Across: Potential ambushers => LIERS
18 Across: Like a dying ember => AGLOW
20 Across: Space exploration org. HQed in Paris => ESA
21 Across: Colgate's Ultra___ => BRITE
22 Across: Network where you can watch the series Snowpiercer this spring => TNT
24 Across: Daniel Webster Hall resident with no cell phone => SENATEPAGE
27 Across: 9-digit code assigned by the IRS for businesses reporting taxes => EIN
28 Across: Used a thingie in a dinghy => OARED
29 Across: IOC country code for Managua athletes => NCA
30 Across: Area where Tuktut Nogait National Park is, in brief => NWT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: World-famous institution in Rochester, Minn. => MAYOCLINIC
2 Down: Company that makes products for writers, smokers and guys with no beards => BIC
3 Down: Old English letter that disappeared by 1300 but which is still used in Icelandic => EDH
4 Down: One of Joe and Elizabeth's rivals => BERNIE
5 Down: For Olympian runners, this may be determined by pressure sensitive blocks => FALSESTART
6 Down: Alternative to using a battery => FREERANGE
7 Down: Something a rich Roman might have in their mausoleum => URN
8 Down: Color appropriate for painting a wise environmentalist's office? => SAGEGREEN
11 Down: Internet co. of today descended from Q-Link in 1985 => AOL
12 Down: Many are named after Washington or Lincoln (abbr.) => STS
16 Down: Scored between 90 and 100, say => GOTANA
18 Down: Muscles often counted in packs => ABS
19 Down: Like the weather on the west coast of Vancouver Island => WET
23 Down: Football Hall of Famer ('90) ___ Hendricks, the first Guatemalan-born player in the NFL => TED
25 Down: Time it takes to get to a human being when calling tech support, seemingly => EON
26 Down: What a boxer may use to shake your hand => PAW

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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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