Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Fix your sock, maybe => DARN
5 Across: Movie for which Tom Hanks received his first Oscar nomination in '89 => BIG
8 Across: Year of Super Bowl XXXVI => MMII
9 Across: 143 mi. British river that flows into the Wash => OUSE
10 Across: Director ___ Snyder of Man of Steel => ZACK
11 Across: Construction beams with 90-degree angles => LBARS
13 Across: Nation that bought land in Fiji so the populace can emigrate en masse when the country is destroyed by ocean rise => KIRIBATI
15 Across: 18th President's monogram => USG
17 Across: Popular Prestige Brands pain relief product => ANACIN
18 Across: Like skilled negotiators => SHREWD
20 Across: ___ pining for the fjords! => HES
21 Across: Actor born in Melbourne who played Henry DeTamble in The Time Traveler's Wife => ERICBANA
23 Across: City that was India's summer capital during The Raj => SIMLA
24 Across: One of the basic printer's ink colors => CYAN
27 Across: Within spittin' distance => NEAR
28 Across: Beginning of Steven Tyler's group => AERO
29 Across: DC's current clock setting => EST
30 Across: Tries to get the lowdown => ASKS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Heavily guarded 160 mi. long strip on the Korean Peninsula => DMZ
2 Down: Org. which led Operation Coffee Cup in the '50s and '60s => AMA
3 Down: Former sheriff's deputy played by Andrew Lincoln in AMC's The Walking Dead => RICKGRIMES
4 Down: Supermodel Taylor, who simultaneously had six large billboards with her image in Times Square => NIKI
5 Down: Bill Clinton's nickname, to some => BUBBA
6 Down: Oscar winning singer and songwriter who really didn't get shafted => ISAACHAYES
7 Down: Name of duck with a 4 ft. tall sculpture on the Wisconsin Avenue bridge in Milwaukee => GERTIE
9 Down: Northeastern Brazilian city with a downtown that is a World Heritage Site => OLINDA
12 Down: Greed, gluttony and pride, for example => SINS
14 Down: Specialty restaurant where you can likely get oyster shooters with your ceviche => RAWBAR
15 Down: Duct tape has quite a few => USES
16 Down: Tokyo attraction dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken => SHRINE
19 Down: Fancy word for quite a showy performance => ECLAT
22 Down: Uber Eats became a Corporate Partner of this nonprofit org. in 2019 => NCAA
25 Down: Stephen Baxter's 2009 hard sci-fi novel => ARK
26 Down: Fuel injected into some dragsters, slangily => NOS

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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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