Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Secret police org. formed in 1923 under the leadership of Felix Dzerzhinsky (abbr.) => OGPU
5 Across: National flag-carrier that does not fly to the US and has its base at Rafic Hariri International Airport (abbr.) => MEA
8 Across: What I try to do on Saturday mornings, but somehow a publishing deadline always seems to intervene => LIEIN
9 Across: Better known name of Tyrone Rivers, Atlanta rapper who released Back Right in 2018 after a 6 year hiatus => PILL
10 Across: First name of the current Representative for Rikers Island => ALEXANDRIA
12 Across: Mobutu ___ Seko, who seized power in a bloodless coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1965 => SESE
13 Across: ___ Myrdal, co-winner of the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize for work with UN disarmament negotiations => ALVA
14 Across: Michael who founded the giant computer company and his brother Adam who founded Civitas Learning and Buzzsaw.com => DELLS
16 Across: Up to scratch? => ITCHY
20 Across: Female red-tailed hawk and mate (from 2002-10) of Pale Male who lived near Central Park from the 1990s to 2015 => LOLA
23 Across: Tall type of rotating gate that allows two-way traffic (abbr.) => HEET
25 Across: Person that President Trump honored in 2018 by awarding (posthumously) the Congressional Gold Medal => ANWARSADAT
27 Across: AFL Quarterback Ryan ___, with over 148 career touchdowns for the Philadelphia Soul and Iowa Barnstormers => VENA
28 Across: State you get in when you find out that someone's run off with your vintage Popeye Crackerjack prize => ANGRY
29 Across: Where Chris Cassidy and Anatoly Ivanishin are right now => ISS
30 Across: Russian born actress Anna ___, brought to the US by Sam Goldwyn and who starred with Gary Cooper in The Wedding Night => STEN

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Like Chitharesh Natesan, known as Indian Monster when he's posing in competition => OILED
2 Down: These could really get you down => GEESE
3 Down: Word for a tiny little thing, first used in 1965 when discussing scanned images from space probes => PIXEL
4 Down: 132 mile river that runs along the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia => UNA
5 Down: The UGM-133 Trident II or the LGM-30 Minuteman III => MIRV
6 Down: The Targaryen who was Oberyn Martell's sister in Game of Thrones => ELIA
7 Down: Female folkloric critter who brings bad weather from the mythology of Bulgarians, Macedonians, and Serbs => ALA
8 Down: ___ Khorey, Somalian coastal city that was once the capital of the Warsangali Sultanate => LAS
9 Down: Imperial force unit introduced in 1877, equal to 13,825 dynes (abbr.) => PDL
11 Down: Political cartoonist Thomas ___, who portrayed Tammany Hall as a ferocious, democracy-killing tiger => NAST
15 Down: In the Pointer Sisters' Fire (1979), this, which rhymed with the song title, was what the song claimed the singer was => LIAR
17 Down: Sometimes monotonous thing which could be Gregorian, Vedic, Baha'i or Buddhist => CHANT
18 Down: Essential and somewhat eery part of the maze in Stephen King's The Shining => HEDGE
19 Down: Desire more deeply than you've ever desired before => YEARN
20 Down: Code used by the International Civil Aviation Organization to identify Vanuatu's Lonorore Airport => LNES
21 Down: What Tennessee does to his soul, according to the B side of Orbison's Penny Arcade (1969) => OWNS
22 Down: Helicopter operation that flew between airports in southern California between 1947 and 1971 (abbr.) => LAA
24 Down: Communication aid for the deaf that's been largely supplanted since the advent of texting (abbr.) => TTY
25 Down: ___ Arad, CEO of Marvel Entertainment in the '90s and producer of 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse => AVI
26 Down: Letters on the side of a plane from Beijing to Oslo, say => SAS

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 21 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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