Crossword Answers For: Thursday, September 3, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: George Carlin's Atheism is a non-prophet organization, for example => PUN
4 Across: Actor Gulager who played the Bartender in 2005's action horror comedy Feast => CLU
7 Across: First name of a world champion boxer who was daughter to a world champion boxer => LAILA
9 Across: Sci-fi character who says Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid => HAN
10 Across: The Whipple Mission, proposed in 2014, would have investigated this distant theorized area of the sun's neighborhood => OORTCLOUD
12 Across: Peter Straub novel that won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award => MRX
13 Across: The way I always read bedtime stories to my daughter => ALOUD
14 Across: Native American people in N. Carolina who amalgamated with the Catawbas in approx. 1715 => ENO
15 Across: Artificial lake created in 1935 not far from the Las Vegas Strip, that in April this year was only at about 43% capacity => MEAD
17 Across: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, born as Lhamo Dhondup in 1935, turned out to be a very important one of these => LAMA
19 Across: Like the Philippine tarsier and the White-thighed surili, according to the IUCN (abbr.) => NTS
20 Across: Like your cerebrum, your liver and your thymus => LOBED
23 Across: ___ Whitcomb who founded Milwaukie, Oregon, named after the Wisconsin city - in 1847 => LOT
24 Across: Bentley Bentayga, for one, with its 790W, 12-speaker stereo => LUXURYCAR
26 Across: July 2 is the day that people celebrate and raise awareness of the undoubted existence of this item => UFO
27 Across: Playwright and singer/songwriter Mitchell who released the album Hadestown in 2010 and opened the theatrical version in 2016 => ANAIS
28 Across: Legislation in 1990 requiring broadcasters to keep and publish summaries of programs geared towards people 16 and under (abbr) => CTA
29 Across: Game with an 81 card deck designed by Marsha Falco in 1974 that won a Mensa Select award in 1991 => SET

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Locale where the Pacific Northwest's only NTT Indycar Series grand prix takes place (abbr.) => PIR
2 Down: Beauty product company since 1990 with well over 1,000 locations => ULTA
3 Down: Something the nerd from chem. class sprinkles on his fries => NACL
4 Down: Chinese VIP who met secretly with Henry Kissinger in 1971 to facilitate Pres. Nixon's visit to China in February 1972 (var.) => CHOUENLAI
5 Down: Those that are always praising, or even glorifying, something => LAUDATORS
6 Down: School that's been the home of the Ralph Engelstad Arena since 2001 and the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center since 2004 (abbr.) => UND
7 Down: Liza Minnelli's actress half sister => LORNALUFT
8 Down: The Grateful Dead's gold album of 1969 with the palindromic - and meaningless - title => AOXOMOXOA
11 Down: US award that Pakistan's Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman received in 2018 (abbr.) => LOM
12 Down: More common first name of Scary Spice of the Spice Girls => MEL
16 Down: Clock shifting routine first instituted on April 30, 1916 by the German Empire and Austria-Hungary (abbr.) => DST
18 Down: Temples of ___ Simbel, relocated in 1968 to prevent flooding caused by the Aswan High Dam => ABU
21 Down: Humanist sans-serif typeface used in ABC's on-air promos of the '80s => ERAS
22 Down: Superhero Wasp of Marvel Comics, aka Janet van ___, founding member and leader of the Avengers => DYNE
24 Down: ___ Deveraux, played by Jean-Claude Van Damme in the Universal Soldier film series => LUC
25 Down: Island where Mount Alvernia, the highest point in the Bahamas, is located => CAT

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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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