Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Well-known nickname of Hunter Adams, founder of the Gesundheit! Institute => PATCH
6 Across: Nowhere near XXL => SML
9 Across: Bacteria which usually and quite happily live in your gut => ECOLI
10 Across: ___ d'Orsay, location of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs => QUAI
11 Across: Bishop of Rome who was elected 460 years ago today => POPEPIUSIV
13 Across: Gent who sells hot stuff from the back of a lorry => SPIV
14 Across: Submarine that played a major part of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novel The Sum of All Fears => MAINE
15 Across: Josephine, to the French, from 1804 => EMPRESS
17 Across: Ben Franklin would likely have needed one => OCULIST
20 Across: Many affidavit or contract writers, briefly => PARAS
21 Across: Actress Kathryn who played Helen in 2018's Alex Strangelove => ERBE
25 Across: Result of smuggling whiskey into a West Point party that culminated 193 years ago today => EGGNOGRIOT
27 Across: Walter, the major the hospital was named after => REED
28 Across: Co. that just announced the closure of its Point Comfort refinery in Texas => ALCOA
29 Across: Beast that provided Samson's weapon => ASS
30 Across: YouTuber nigahiga and tattooist Ashley Malarkey of Ink Master => RYANS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Livens (up) => PEPS
2 Down: Private security guard: rent-___ => ACOP
3 Down: Head gear for an Indian tiger hunt, maybe => TOPI
4 Down: City whose MLB team was once named the Napoleons, or for short, the Naps => CLEVELAND
5 Down: Word that may be followed by replacement instead of hooray for many older people => HIP
6 Down: Miss USA 2003, ___ Castillo => SUSIE
7 Down: What many fire hydrants are connected to => MAINS
8 Down: What green mushrooms gave you in Super Mario Bros. => LIVES
10 Down: Type of report Nasdaq often likes to see => QUARTERLY
12 Down: 2000 April Fool's Day RFC issued by the Internet Society about the practicalities of the infinite monkey theorem => IMPS
16 Down: Soup you might order in a sushi bar => MISO
17 Down: The Who's Tommy, for one => OPERA
18 Down: Protection for some great white researchers => CAGES
19 Down: They might occur in the first and second trimester, maybe => URGES
22 Down: Like a Lisbon aristocrata => RICA
23 Down: Island off Maine with the tallest lighthouse in New England => BOON
24 Down: Estimates often announced from AA captains => ETAS
26 Down: Giant (but delicious) fish of the lower Mississippi whose eggs are highly toxic => GAR

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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