Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Helgenberger who plays Judge Benner on the new CBS drama All Rise => MARG
5 Across: It caused some White House confusion in a 2018 tribute to Senator John McCain => FLAG
9 Across: Russian News Agency TASS was known as ___-TASS from 1992-2014 => ITAR
10 Across: Material for the editor to look over => COPY
11 Across: Where the 77,000 sq.mi. Thar Desert is => ASIA
12 Across: Coconut product that can possibly spontaneously combust => COPRA
14 Across: Lady of habit? => NUN
16 Across: One way to start a duel => SLAP
17 Across: ___ Clausen, The Simpsons music man => ALF
19 Across: The US Second and Third and Russia's Baltic, for example => FLEETS
21 Across: You, me and the server in the local cafe => PEOPLE
23 Across: Like Robert Burns's tim'rous beastie => WEE
24 Across: Rear Admiral ___ Joyner, who, since August '19, has commanded Carrier Strike Group 2 => SARA
25 Across: ___ Maria, Kahlua's Italian cousin => TIA
27 Across: Periods of six consecutive bowls in a gentlemanly game of cricket => OVERS
29 Across: Logo on a John Deere tractor => STAG
32 Across: ExxonMobil primary gasoline brand, except in the US => ESSO
33 Across: Weapon the USA and N Korea have in common => ICBM
34 Across: Kidnapper's gun in 2017's All the Money in the World => STEN
35 Across: Get outta here! => SHOO

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Deg. designation awarded by the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia => MIA
2 Down: Cadillac => ATS
3 Down: Brazilian region that is increasingly going up in flames => RAINFOREST
4 Down: Shirley Ann ___, winner of the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Keepers of the House => GRAU
5 Down: Org. Eminem states tried to shut him down in Without Me => FCC
6 Down: Out of its cage => LOOSE
7 Down: World's best-selling wearable device, now available in titanium => APPLEWATCH
8 Down: Do the Bernie Dance, maybe => GYRATE
13 Down: Domed cathedral area that sounds like downloaded phone programs? => APSE
15 Down: Niagara Falls Amtrak code => NFL
17 Down: Lhasa ___, a dog originally bred as a Buddhist monastery watch dog => APSO
18 Down: Fall lawn covering, often => LEAVES
20 Down: Cry from a Wimbledon net judge => LET
22 Down: Analyze syntactically => PARSE
26 Down: Cow-horned goddess of ancient Egyptian times => ISIS
28 Down: Michael, to VP Mike => SON
30 Down: Pass heavily used by the BNSF Railway between Belen, NM and Mountainair, NM => ABO
31 Down: Technology that's used to produce almost all the world's cotton, in brief => GMO

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This crossword has 20 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 39 clues are solved in the section above.
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