Crossword Answers For: Friday, August 28, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Guy who's probably heard the phrase You have the right to remain silent at some point in the not too distant past => PERP
5 Across: Like someone who can trip the light fantastic, when compared to me => AGILER
7 Across: Org, founded in 1975 that, according to its website, has never wavered from its mission to defend the Second Amendment (abbr.) => GOA
10 Across: Game dreamed up by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1981 featuring a gorilla => DONKEYKONG
12 Across: Formula for a compound of elements number 15 and 49 that is used in making high speed transistors => INP
13 Across: ___ Law, which said (erroneously) that each planet is twice as far away from its star as the previous planet => BODES
14 Across: Letters on the front of the bus taking you from Veracruz to Tampico => ADO
15 Across: Nickname of Alexandre Emmanuel, filmmaker and journalist and younger brother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau => SACHA
16 Across: What I seem to have gotten as the years have passed by => WIDER
18 Across: William James posthumous publication (by Ralph Barton Perry) of articles in 1912 (abbr.) => ERE
20 Across: Pro-Trump conspiracy theory recently in the news => QANON
21 Across: Initials of the author of the 1868 novel that followed the lives of the March sisters => LMA
22 Across: How Karl Wallenda possibly started out, right from day one => ONTHEROPES
25 Across: La cerveza ___ fina: slogan of Cervecería Modelo's Corona Extra => MAS
26 Across: Not the greatest weather conditions for viewing a solar eclipse => CLOUDY
27 Across: Mushpie of Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County and the knight who was eaten by the Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh => ALFS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 2009 album ___ and Gin Joints => PINPOINTS
2 Down: One of the supporters on the Great Seal of the State of Michigan => ELK
3 Down: One of cerium, holmium, yttrium or 14 others, for short => REE
4 Down: Jimmy, which can apply quite a lot of leverage => PRYBAR
5 Down: Sarah McLachlan song of 1998 that starts with the statement I do believe I've failed you => ADIA
6 Down: Supercontinent that covered about one fifth of the Earth about three hundred million years ago => GONDWANA
7 Down: Something you might hear when the aliens exit their ship and start zapping people with ray guns => GODHELPUS
8 Down: Def Leppard's Rick Allen, notably => ONEARMED
9 Down: U.S. Army's Brigadier Generals Robert W. Bennett Jr., James T. Iacocca and David K. MacEwen, for short => AGS
11 Down: Mid-Eastern enterprise founded in '34, now managed by Emad Sultan and one of the largest petroleum producers in the world (abbr.) => KOC
15 Down: ___ Crane, head gamemaker of the 74th Hunger Games => SENECA
17 Down: Code on your luggage tag if you're heading out of Dulles to Qatar => DOH
19 Down: What this crossword probably isn't => EASY
20 Down: City of about 1.3 million just north of the ancient ruins of Khurha => QOM
23 Down: Abbr. to text when tears are actually streaming down your smiling face => RLL
24 Down: EP that sounds as though you've been hit by a brick, released by Seattle's duo Blue Scholars in 2009 => OOF

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 33 clues are solved in the section above.
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