Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Beasts that sound like they're always making headlines => GNUS
5 Across: Miles Copeland, Jr. or Francis Gary Powers => CIASPY
7 Across: One of the hosts of this year's Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton => SANDRAOH
9 Across: Tony, of Netflix' The Good Cop, who also boasted a 9 and 3 winning pro boxing record => DANZA
10 Across: 48 mi. Belgian river that lent its name to a WWI battle => YSER
12 Across: Numeral system that uses only the digits 0 through 7 => OCTAL
13 Across: Princeton, Tiger: Yale, ___ => ELI
14 Across: JFK's predecessor => IKE
15 Across: Like a lot of Oscar-winning actors => FAMED
17 Across: Type of ball passed from Parker Brothers to Kenner Products in 1991 => NERF
19 Across: Compound that's derived from ammonia => AMINE
20 Across: One of the 3,979 (approx.) in the Democratic Party who will elect the nominee for president of the US next year => DELEGATE
22 Across: Serious craving => DESIRE
23 Across: Volcano that coughed up smoke rings in June 2000 => ETNA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Tokyo district that's like Beverley Hills' Rodeo Drive => GINZA
2 Down: Federer's longtime rival => NADAL
3 Down: Co. that produced computer modems in 1986 at a blazingly fast 9600 bit/s => USR
4 Down: Do a feline ovo-hysterectomy => SPAY
5 Down: Got your mount up to about 15 mph => CANTERED
6 Down: Sam, who was always Bugged => YOSEMITE
7 Down: Grady Jarrett did this to the Patriots' Brady three times in Super Bowl LI => SACKED
8 Down: 1958 hurricane that grazed Cape Hatteras and created damages of $11.2 million => HELENE
9 Down: Rub out, in a way => DOIN
11 Down: Sally, first US woman in space => RIDE
15 Down: Dan, award-winning journalist and 2014 General Nonfiction Pulitzer recipient => FAGIN
16 Down: Soprano Lucine ___ who sang at the Met across 41 seasons (1950-91) => AMARA
18 Down: Cut and run => FLEE
21 Down: Part of i.e. => EST

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This crossword has 14 across clues and 15 down clues. In total 29 clues are solved in the section above.
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