Crossword Answers For: Friday, September 4, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Narrow gauge line started in 1854 on CA's north coast that served the redwood industry and kept running until 1986 (abbr.) => AMR
4 Across: City NE of Budapest where Samsung makes its Lithium-ion automotive batteries, in particular for BMW => GOD
7 Across: Type of Looney Tunes' chicken that was inspired by the fictional Senator Claghorn (Are ya payin' attention, son?) => LEGHORN
9 Across: Merely 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to transition between the two hyperfine levels of the Cs-133 atom => JUSTASEC
10 Across: Pitts who won the 2004 Pulitzer for Commentary and Roberts who costarred in Drumline: A New Beat => LEONARDS
12 Across: 2019 vampire film directed by Joe Begos and starring Dora Madison, released in September 2019 => BLISS
13 Across: Bethesda org. that concentrates on making transfusion medicine and biotherapies safe, available, and effective (abbr.) => AABB
16 Across: Fred T. ___, who first published All the World's Fighting Ships in 1898 => JANE
17 Across: Unit of electrical conductance in the emu-cgs system, equal to 109 siemens => ABMHO
18 Across: Monica, Leanna and Joy of 1989's Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon => TRIPLETS
20 Across: Something done on a stack of Bibles or in response to someone stealing the cheesecake you were going to eat for breakfast => YOUSWEAR
22 Across: Accurate description of the crowd my kids have over for their birthday parties, apparently => TERRORS
23 Across: Pres. who signed the Fed. Aid Highway Act, the largest - at $25 billion - public works project in US history at the time (abbr.) => DDE
24 Across: Newspaper that, since last year, has a TV news program accessible on Hulu (abbr.) => NYT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Race driver who retired in 1994 days shy of his 55th birthday after a 30 year career => ALUNSERSR
2 Down: Geologic features formed by differential erosion, common in New Mexico => MESAS
3 Down: MMORPG running from 2007 to 2009 that took place on planets Arieki and Foreas between humanity and the Bane (abbr.) => RGTR
4 Down: ___ Albatross, human-powered aircraft piloted by Bryan Allen that crossed the English Channel on June 12, 1979 => GOSSAMER
5 Down: The longest train ever consisted of 682 cars, was 4.5 miles long and carried this product in W. Australia on June 21, 2001 => ORE
6 Down: Recent event, part of which Sen. Cory Booker likened to Survivor with interviews of all those voted off the island (abbr.) => DNC
8 Down: What Merapi did on May 11, 2018 => HADABLAST
9 Down: Fancy, legal term for taking care of the wife after you've... er ...departed => JOINTURE
10 Down: Pres. who was older bother to Sam Houston and was born on a ranch on the banks of the Pedernales River (abbr.) => LBJ
11 Down: Activist Gandhi, Mahatma's granddaughter, who recently addressed 15,000 graduating students at DC's Embassy of India Student Hub => ELA
14 Down: Common food preservative and antioxidant that the US FDA currently considers as generally recognized as safe (abbr.) => BHT
15 Down: Genus of mammal that numbers in the billions and includes the gaur, the gayal and the kouprey => BOS
17 Down: What Alec Baldwin can be said to be guilty of on SNL => APERY
19 Down: Cry that you finally say to yourself after checking your lottery numbers 14 times and they still match => IWON
20 Down: Popular free software that allows downloads and conversions of videos from dozens of streaming sites => YTD
21 Down: Letters that I had to look up in what turned out to be itself, in order to find out what they meant => OED

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This crossword has 14 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 31 clues are solved in the section above.
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