Crossword Answers For: Monday, September 7, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Mandatory prayer - the fifth of the Islamic day - usually performed by Muslims in the afternoon => ASR
4 Across: Prefix that can come before your ad, particularly if you have seven of them => HEPT
8 Across: Manitoba, Canada town that was hit by the county's only F5 tornado on record, on June 22, 2007 => ELIE
9 Across: Actress ___ Menken, who in the role of Ivan Mazepa in the 1860s, became the highest earning actress in the world => ADAH
10 Across: 5th Chief Justice of the US (1836-64), who was also US Attorney General (1831-33) and Secretary of the Treasury (1833-34) => ROGERTANEY
13 Across: Year that Agrippa I, king of Judea (41-44 AD) was born => TENBC
14 Across: ___ Ignatius, Editor in Chief of Harvard Business Review since 2009 => ADI
15 Across: Mehmed VI Vahideddin, 1861-1926, was the 36th and final Sultan of this once great Empire => OTTOMAN
18 Across: First US President to be the target of an assassination attempt (which failed), on January 30, 1835 => JACKSON
21 Across: Airline HQed in Dayton that made Shantell Pooser the first special needs flight attendant within the American Airline Group in 2018 => PSA
22 Across: Adam, born in Washington, who acted and Mae, born in New York, who acted => WESTS
26 Across: Name for the personification of the feminine ideal of the 1890 to 1910 era => GIBSONGIRL
29 Across: Volcano located in the northwest of the Black Land of Mordor in Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium => DOOM
30 Across: Global cartel that invited Brazil (which did not accept) to join them in October last year (abbr.) => OPEC
31 Across: 580 mile long river which is the longest that lies entirely within the nation of Spain => EBRO
32 Across: DARPA branch that pursues high-payoff research that can be used in U.S. national security activities (abbr.) => DSO

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Additive to almost everything these days => ALOE
2 Down: Item a semioticist might get all excited about => SIGN
3 Down: Global shoe company that Ariana Grande became a brand ambassador for in September 2017 => REEBOK
4 Down: Chem. notation for hydroastatic acid, which as far as I can determine, isn't used for anything much at all => HAT
5 Down: Author and educator LeShan who wrote When Your Child Drives You Crazy (1985) => EDA
6 Down: Airline that owned the Boeing 707–331 that the Beatles arrived on at John F. Kennedy on February 7, 1964 => PANAM
7 Down: Sociologist ___ Skocpol of Harvard, whose book Protecting Soldiers and Mothers received the 1993 Woodrow Wilson Award => THEDA
8 Down: Greece's equivalent of PBS in the US => ERT
11 Down: Org. with 3000 members and a monthly magazine, formed in the UK in '28, that's for those interested in locomotives => RCTS
12 Down: 620 mile long mountain range that forms the southeastern edge of the Gobi Desert => YIN
16 Down: Deep River, Connecticut, established in 1635, for one => TOWN
17 Down: Fundamental basis of monotheistic beliefs => ONEGOD
18 Down: Type of file introduced in 1992 that's mostly the reason that your social image sites are all covered with pics (abbr.) => JPG
19 Down: Type of comment that Elizabeth makes in The Crucible when she says He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him. => ASIDE
20 Down: Dish I always order at my favorite Mongolian barbecue joint, although I always watch out for the bamboo slivers (var.) => CABOB
23 Down: Enjoys your Henri IV Dudognon Heritage Cognac => SIPS
24 Down: Name of the dog that received the Dickin Medal in 2010 for work in uncovering IEDs in Afghanistan => TREO
25 Down: 1999's film ___ Punk!, about the daily life of Stevo and his best buddy Heroin Bob => SLC
27 Down: 30 mile long river that's the only salmon river in Galicia => SOR
28 Down: Ethiopian national park since 1980 that remains undeveloped and with virtually no roads but has 195,000 remains of homo sapiens => OMO

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 21 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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