Crossword Answers For: Monday, August 31, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Mother of the subject of the 2018 Grammy-nominated documentary Whitney => CISSY
6 Across: Verb used in many emails to senators => URGE
10 Across: What you're faced with after the wild night you spent moshing => ACHES
11 Across: Deborah ___, who in a ceremony on September 1, 1730 entered into a common-law marriage with Benjamin Franklin => READ
12 Across: Green Proctor and Gamble introduction of 1947, now owned by Scott's Liquid Gold-Inc., that was promoted using pearls => PRELL
13 Across: Put a book together => BIND
14 Across: Angela ___, co-host of NY-based The Breakfast Club, inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame earlier this month => YEE
15 Across: Metal instrument shaped like a large convex lens with a top side called the ding and a bottom side with a hole called the gu => HANG
16 Across: Soldiers of The Republic in the Star Wars saga => CLONES
18 Across: Kenny ___, choreographer for 1987's highly successful Dirty Dancing and a long-time director and filmmaker => ORTEGA
20 Across: May 1 was a day chosen by Don Blanding, then of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, in 1927 for a celebration of these => LEIS
21 Across: Nickname of Arielle Gold from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, 2013 World Halfpipe snowboard champion => REL
24 Across: Dean Martin's birth name: ___ Paul Crocetti => DINO
25 Across: Any one of Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies, for example => REVUE
27 Across: Barcelona artist ___ Miro, who created the 72 ft. tall sculpture Dona i Ocell in 1983 => JOAN
28 Across: Old fashioned way to say It isn't => TAINT
29 Across: Sound that might have caused panic on Strato-Lab V as it passed the 100,000 foot mark in 1961 => SSSS
30 Across: Thousands are tiny, a few are very large, some are Arctic, a lot are tropical and there are some in England that are just plain Scilly => ISLES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, often wore a karakul, alternately called a Jinnah ___ => CAP
2 Down: Flo Rida's 2012 song that reached number one on Billboard's US Hot Rap Songs => ICRY
3 Down: Fairy-like Irish being that lives underground or in an alternate universe and which is sometimes preceded by the word ban => SHEE
4 Down: What you're faced with making when looking at the list of names on November 3 => SELECTIONS
5 Down: Initials of the well known fashion designer who finally, at the age of 71, married his life-long partner, Pierre Berge => YSL
6 Down: Definition, according to the US Census Bureau, of Raleigh, NC, Tucson, AZ and Dayton, OH => URBANAREAS
7 Down: Marie Antoinette, par exemple => REINE
8 Down: Groups of elk => GANGS
9 Down: ___ Byrnes who constantly combed his hair as Kookie in TV's 77 Sunset Strip => EDD
15 Down: Gouger, Snouter, Rooter or Tusker of Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels => HOG
17 Down: Pumpkin colored item that all astronauts ascending to and re-entering from the ISS wore from 1994 to 1998 (abbr.) => LES
18 Down: Hodgepodges like spicy stews and jambalayas => OLIOS
19 Down: Bitter who was the Ambassador to Laos until this year and Sofer who starred in TV's Always and Forever => RENAS
22 Down: Fictional doctor of movies with a cat called Mr. Bigglesworth => EVIL
23 Down: Verlaine's poem Clair de ___ (1869) which inspired Debussy to compose his famous movement => LUNE
24 Down: David Guetta, Marshmello and Steve Aoki, e.g. => DJS
25 Down: Largest US titanium producer, ___ International Metals, founded in 1950 and acquired by Alcoa in 2015 => RTI
26 Down: A lot of things that visited and sometimes irritated Captain Kirk, for short => ETS

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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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