Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Name given to the dwelling used by indigenous people of Brazil => OCA
4 Across: One of the subjects that astronaut Story Musgrave has a degree in, for short => CHEM
8 Across: Four-time World Champion and Olympic gold medalist skater Witt of East Germany (now Germany) => KATARINA
10 Across: What this year's online DNC and RNC definitely were not => APOLITICAL
13 Across: The org. that created outrage in 2015 by acquiring Eggs Benedict, a portrait of the Pope made with colorful condoms (abbr.) => MAM
14 Across: River that loops around a once medieval city believed to have been founded in 1191 by Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen => AARE
15 Across: Gold coin originally worth 16 silver reais and replaced by the euro in the 1990s => ESCUDO
17 Across: First name - a pun on pheromone - of Cameron Clayton's drag queen persona => FARRAH
21 Across: Shoe width specification that's six sizes wider than the norm for ladies => EEEE
22 Across: NYSE symbol of the co. that had a duck in the opening credits of May's Scoob! => AFL
25 Across: What The Sea School Marines who were a sight to make any boot cringe wore in Leon Uris' Battle Cry => DRESSBLUES
29 Across: What Brittany Tomlinson was drinking on the tweet that went viral about a year ago => KOMBUCHA
30 Across: ___ Calloway, reporter interviewing Kanye West in November 2013 on SiriusXM Shade 45 when West had a melt down => SWAY
31 Across: Letters on your pay stub that indicate how much you've earned so far => YTD

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Lada automobile brand that originally had a 40 cu in engine and was given to many service veterans free => OKA
2 Down: Red bit of attire that at times has the letters MAGA on it => CAP
3 Down: Length of time that was compared to the twinkling of an eye in the Greek text of Paul's 1 Corinthians 15:52 => ATOM
4 Down: In Dec. 2018, Russia completed a high-tech security fence between the Ukraine and this territory => CRIMEA
5 Down: What the ball player known as Charlie Hustle managed to do 4,256 times => HIT
6 Down: Machine finished in 1945 that was the world's first electronic general-purpose digital computer => ENIAC
7 Down: Asian territory where one official language is Portuguese, even though only about 3% of the populace can speak it => MACAU
9 Down: State where the town of Spectre was built for Tim Burton's movie Big Fish and is now a ghost town (abbr.) => ALA
11 Down: What your baggage tag reads if you're flying to Mali Airport via Indonesia's NAM Air => ARD
12 Down: Name of the animal used in Goldwyn Pictures Corporation studio's logo => LEO
16 Down: If you're not too this, you're a pretty decent sort of person => SHABBY
17 Down: The ___, who produces the Beige Book (known as the Red Book until the early 1980s) eight times each year => FED
18 Down: Name of the large veil used to cover the bread and wine for the Eucharist in the Eastern Orthodox Church => AER
19 Down: Smells like my son was trying to make wolverine attractant with his chemistry set in the basement => REEKS
20 Down: Go over the back forty with the seeder again => RESOW
23 Down: Viral malady adapted to birds, horses, dogs, pigs and yes, humans => FLU
24 Down: Lois Lane's sister, played by Peyton List in Smallville => LUCY
26 Down: Military position that Alabama's Michael A. Grinston has occupied since August 2019 (abbr.) => SMA
27 Down: Project that combines data from very-long-baseline interferometry stations and can observe distant black holes (abbr) => EHT
28 Down: Term for depressive periods when sunset happens at 4 pm and dawn appears at 9 am => SAD

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This crossword has 14 across clues and 21 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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