Crossword Answers For: Monday, August 24, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Govt. agcy. established in 1927 that was intended to regulate the airwaves of the day => FRC
4 Across: Obsolete unit of torque in the gravitational metric system (abbr.) => KGM
7 Across: What whistle blowers have to do to really get people's attention => TOOT
9 Across: Christine ___, who both Viscount Raoul de Chagny and Erik fall in love with in a noted 1909 publication => DAAE
10 Across: European country and founding member of NATO that, according to its constitution, has no official language => LUXEMBOURG
13 Across: Item created by H. Ty Warner in 1993, which, by the late nineties, had become a world-wide fad => BEANIEBABY
14 Across: Medical and leading organ transplant center located on Davis Islands in Hillsborough County, FL (abbr.) => TGH
15 Across: The last of these Saturn passenger cars was built in March 2007 at GM's Spring Hill, TN, assembly plant => ION
16 Across: Most selective higher ed. school in Venezuela which admits only the 95th percentile of those taking its admission test (abbr.) => USB
19 Across: Erendira's husband who walked across the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua on a high wire in March of this year => NIK
21 Across: Flying Finn who uniquely once held simultaneous world records in the mile, 5000 m and 10,000 m (1923) => PAAVONURMI
26 Across: Bess Truman, in 1945 => SECONDLADY
27 Across: Seldom used first name of Stan who, through his holding co., owns Colorado's Rapids of the MLS and Mammoth of the NLL => ENOS
28 Across: ___ Montgomery, artsy imaginative hipster character from ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars => ARIA
29 Across: Canadian equivalent of the US' cable channel where you can watch Monday Night Football => TSN
30 Across: Norse valkyrie associated with healing and medical skills => EIR

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: This force, used in the US, is the equivalent of about 13.5 million ergs (abbr.) => FTLB
2 Down: Just an old fashioned Lothario => ROUE
3 Down: Hip, to a lady studying orthopedics => COXA
4 Down: Hawaiian isle that was effectively a Russian Empire outpost in 1816-17 => KAUAI
5 Down: What Aussies call a trash collector => GARBO
6 Down: Actress Price who played Mary Roth on Netflix's The Ranch => MEGYN
8 Down: '06 book, by The Handmaid's Tale author, of fictional essays (with The) => TENT
9 Down: First lesbian civil and political rights org. in the US, formed in 1955 (abbr.) => DOB
11 Down: Name of the chocolate Easter egg inside a real egg shell, made by Frazer of Finland since 1896 => MIGNON
12 Down: Alternative term to what Colonel Potter used to refer to as keister => BEHIND
16 Down: What many consider the Mets beating the Orioles in '69 to be => UPSET
17 Down: Camille Saint-___ , Parisian composer and musical prodigy who gave his first recital at age ten => SAENS
18 Down: What everything tastes better with, according to Sara Perry's 2002 book => BACON
20 Down: The part of Maui that the Enchanted Floral Gardens, at 2,500 feet, is located => KULA
22 Down: Quinlan ___, Jedi Master who falls to the Dark Side, but is reinstated and is one the few to survive the Great Jedi Purge => VOS
23 Down: Like the Saola => RARE
24 Down: Year when Goncalo Coelho, sailed into a bay on January 1 and called it Rio de Janeiro, thinking it was a river => MDII
25 Down: Second month of the Jewish religious year => IYAR

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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