Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Term popularized by J.B. Rhine at Duke U. => ESP
4 Across: Noble order whose levels include Padawan, Knight and Master => JEDI
8 Across: Dance Virginians do => REEL
10 Across: All a-dither => HETUP
11 Across: 12-time Rose Bowl participants => UCLA
12 Across: Queen Latifah's real last name => OWENS
13 Across: Goad => PROVOKE
15 Across: US Army battle training which uses lasers instead of bullets (abbr.) => TES
16 Across: The name of last year's deadly March storm that caused the closure of many DC fed. govt. offices => RILEY
19 Across: It's always in the middle of the morning, in Mexico => TILDE
21 Across: Volvo currently owns the rights to this old Michigan auto manufacturer => REO
23 Across: Team member challenging for the Henley Royal Regatta's Grand Challenge Cup => OARSMAN
25 Across: Company that originated Pong in 1972 => ATARI
28 Across: Group that registered its makeup designs with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office => KISS
29 Across: Mozart's Austrian contemporary => HAYDN
30 Across: Pot-building contribution => ANTE
31 Across: Co. instrumental in opening the era of consumer microelectronics with its TR-63 transistor radio => SONY
32 Across: Clock setting referred to for the Times Square ball drop => EST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Act like Eyjafjallajokull did in 2010 => ERUPT
2 Down: It now comes with essential oils, according to Camila Mendes => SECRET
3 Down: Member of Congress whose brother and father were both Mayor of Baltimore => PELOSI
4 Down: Singer who released her Picking Up the Pieces album in 2015 => JEWEL
5 Down: When Dijon's really hot => ETE
6 Down: Half of a big US credit reporting agency => DUN
7 Down: Magnetic recording tape speed meas. => IPS
9 Down: The US Marines use the eight-wheeled amphibious armored ___-25 => LAV
10 Down: More corny => HOKIER
14 Down: Make a father of, in some cultures => ORDAIN
17 Down: Trim for royal robes that's against PETA principles => ERMINE
18 Down: Used correctly, these could double your dough => YEASTS
20 Down: Word James Comey said before I hope there are tapes, in 2017 when testifying about his conversations with the President => LORDY
22 Down: Where actors are required to be for filming => ONSET
24 Down: Genre of many of Prince Buster's recordings => SKA
25 Down: Org. based at Alexandria's River Farm that awards the Great American Gardeners Awards => AHS
26 Down: The order of the universe in East Asian Philosophies => TAO
27 Down: Rand, born Rosenbaum, of The Fountainhead => AYN

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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