Crossword Answers For: Thursday, January 9, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Your basic type of seaman => ABLE
5 Across: What Benjamin Button did backwards => AGE
8 Across: Andrew Sean ___, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction => GREER
9 Across: Fail miserably on Broadway => BOMB
11 Across: The White House's Jessica, who in 2018 was found to have violated the Hatch Act with political tweets => DITTO
12 Across: 68.34 sq.mi. for DC => AREA
13 Across: Coin used in Cadiz, before the euro => PESETA
15 Across: Antelope that sounds like a recent innovation => GNU
16 Across: Name of Saturn XIX, which takes 3.6 Earth years to orbit the planet => YMIR
17 Across: Like the numbering on interstates that run north-south => ODD
18 Across: What Dr. Jekyll (or Mr. Hyde) suffered from, in present day terminology (abbr.) => DID
20 Across: Bos'n's superior => CAPN
22 Across: Brooklyn pro poker player Mosseri, known on-line as EazyPeazy => ABE
23 Across: Jeff Bezos' baby => AMAZON
26 Across: This will hopefully land you in deep water => DIVE
28 Across: What Esther and Mark Talley did for Jamie Foxx => ADOPT
29 Across: Sea connected to the Black Sea by the Strait of Kerch => AZOV
30 Across: Sat waiting for the light to change => IDLED
31 Across: Governor ___ Hutchinson of Arkansas => ASA
32 Across: The C in CMYK => CYAN

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: NYC's Mad writer Kaplan who also penned Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed! => ARIE
2 Down: VP Pence voted to break a tie and approve her nomination as Secretary of Education => BETSYDEVOS
3 Down: Alexz Johnson's ___ Eat Cake ('14) => LETEM
4 Down: Works by Anne Rice under the pen name of A. N. Roquelaure, e.g. => EROTICA
5 Down: This org. introduced the 3-point shot 12 years before the NBA => ABA
6 Down: Cheese that has holes poked in it with metal rods during aging => GORGONZOLA
7 Down: Improve by critical editing => EMEND
8 Down: In 2018 this was 20.580 trillion USD for the USA => GDP
10 Down: Modems rated at 9600 of these were super fast in the eighties => BAUD
14 Down: Language used in some of the Dead Sea Scrolls => ARAMAIC
18 Down: Nihilistic 20th century art movement => DADA
19 Down: Where Mike Posner took a pill in 2015 => IBIZA
21 Down: Playwright Chayefsky, who won 3 Oscars for Best Screenplay => PADDY
24 Down: Frank => OPEN
25 Down: Drama school co. that uses American Sign Language => NTD
27 Down: Actress Amurri, star of Middle of Nowhere => EVA

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This crossword has 20 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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