Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Svce. not established as a separate branch of the Armed Forces until Sept.1947 => USAF
5 Across: 2019 compact premium crossover, the Lincoln ___ => MKC
8 Across: ___Zeneca pharmaceutical company that produces Nexium for acid reflux => ASTRA
9 Across: Global org. for athletes with physical impairments and precurser to the Paralympic Games (abbr.) => IWAS
11 Across: 3M invention meant to seal a new transparent material - cellophane => SCOTCHTAPE
13 Across: Shareholders mtg., usually => AGM
14 Across: Like many desert caves => EOLIAN
15 Across: Unchallenging reading material => PAP
16 Across: Mary Phelps Jacob received a patent for a modern version of one of these in 1914 => BRA
17 Across: Not at my desk, in a text message => OOO
18 Across: Name of the September 2018 windstorm that hit the UK with 100 mph winds => ALI
21 Across: Dugong or manatee => SEACOW
24 Across: What Utah's Rick Koerber was found guilty of running in 2018 with his property investment business => CON
25 Across: Hang in there till the end => STICKITOUT
27 Across: Walt Disney's video on demand service that received 20 Emmy nominations in 2019 => HULU
28 Across: Trunk => TORSO
29 Across: The letters on the scoreboard when windsurfer Gal Fridman won the only Olympic gold medal ever for his country => ISR
30 Across: Man-to-man defense alternative => ZONE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Where cadets become ensigns in New London, CT => USCGA
2 Down: Show still running at New York's Orpheum Theater after 25 years => STOMP
3 Down: Graffiti, to the one with the spray cans, maybe => ART
4 Down: Social media platform where Alex Jones and Laura Loomer are not welcome => FACEBOOK
5 Down: Pass you travel through going from Cairo to Eilat => MITLA
6 Down: River in the title of the '57 blockbuster that won 7 Oscars => KWAI
7 Down: Matador's cloak => CAPA
8 Down: Stat, to a surgeon => ASAP
10 Down: Patrick Leahy, e.g. => SEN
12 Down: Michael, DOJ Inspector General => HOROWITZ
17 Down: Go down, so to speak => OCCUR
18 Down: Nevada grp. that was charged with voter registration fraud in 2009 => ACORN
19 Down: No good, unethical, slimeball => LOUSE
20 Down: Ariana Grande's ___ You (2016) => INTO
21 Down: Secure Internet connection protocol letters => SSH
22 Down: Lady's fancy needlecase => ETUI
23 Down: Quack's magic elixir: It's good for whatever ___ you! => AILS
26 Down: The Globetrotters' Jonte ___ Tall Hall => TOO

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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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