Crossword Answers For: Thursday, August 27, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Where the ancient city of Kerma sits today => SUDAN
6 Across: Like the way that Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith laughs in The Matrix Revolutions (2003) => DEMONIC
8 Across: Where the star of 2009's The Proposal was born => ARLINGTON
10 Across: Langdon who was awarded one of the Golden Boot Awards in 2003 => SUEANE
11 Across: Gretchen who played Gillian Darmody on HBO's Boardwalk Empire => MOL
13 Across: L x LVIII (question from Nero's imperatorial exam?) => MMCM
14 Across: Non-___ blue which cannot be detected by graphic arts camera film and so is often used by layout editors => REPRO
16 Across: Up and about, judging by the banging and clomping coming from above => ASTIR
18 Across: La ___, young mutant Frenchman who was part of Marvel Comics X-Force and who could generate a cloak of dark energy around himself => NUIT
19 Across: 1790's party formed by Jefferson and Madison split after the 1824 election into the Whig Party and this one, for short => DEM
20 Across: Decides to act as the Ham from Hamlet, say => EMOTES
22 Across: Superspeedway city near where the International Motorsports Hall of Fame is located => TALLADEGA
24 Across: Schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor was carried over this - and survived - in 1901 => NIAGARA
25 Across: Jumps named after skater Paulsen now commonplace, but as of last year only 11 women had completed triple versions in competition => AXELS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Member of the governing body of Georgetown, Colorado, for example => SELECTMAN
2 Down: Where Reince Priebus, White House Chief of Staff in 2017, graduated with a J.D. degree cum laude in 1998, for short => UMIAMI
3 Down: ___ Eisele, command module pilot of Apollo 7 in 1968 => DONN
4 Down: Ed ___ who wrote Let's Pave the Stupid Rainforests & Give School Teachers Stun Guns: And Other Ways to Save America in 1996 => ANGER
5 Down: Alternate name for the unit of luminance, candela per square meter => NIT
6 Down: Item you just bought from Ludwig-Musser and you also bought a couple of sizzlers and some muffles, too => DRUMSET
7 Down: The Wang 2200 and the HP 9800 were very early ones you could put on a desk => COMPUTERS
8 Down: ___ as a box of frogs (or alternately, as a cut snake) => ASMAD
9 Down: Carlos ___, who served as Mission Specialist 3 and performed three EVAs in constructing the ISS on STS-97 in Dec. 2000 => NORIEGA
12 Down: ___ de Casha, Madonna's 2005 picture book for kids aged six and up => LOTSA
15 Down: Without any knobs, put fancily => ENODAL
17 Down: Advice - probably ignored - to the guy wearing a track in carpet in the delivery room waiting area => RELAX
21 Down: Merlin's role in King Arthur's court, apparently => MAGE
23 Down: McHugh, who will play Sprite in next year's Marvel Studios production The Eternals => LIA

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This crossword has 14 across clues and 15 down clues. In total 29 clues are solved in the section above.
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