Crossword Answers For: Friday, August 21, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: The weird and eccentric Sinjin Van ___, played by Michael Eric Reid on Nickelodeon's Victorious => CLEEF
6 Across: Like Methuselah, that currently lives in eastern California's White Mountains => OLD
9 Across: The Bills' Bruce Smith or the Giants' Michael Strahan, notably => PASSRUSHER
12 Across: Group from Evansville who released Put The Kid On The Sleepy Horse in May 2016 => MOCKORANGE
13 Across: The Gobi Desert's Yueyaquan, for example => OASIS
14 Across: Look fwd. to, briefly => EXPT
17 Across: US org. founded in '73 whose stated mission is to protect the freedom to hunt and to promote wildlife conservation (abbr.) => SCI
18 Across: Journalist Sharon ___ of MSNBC and LA's KCAL9, recently laid off in KCBS' cost-cutting measures => TAY
19 Across: McDonald's Aussie McOz Burger uniquely has this added to it => BEET
20 Across: What you had to do in order to vote in last year's Australian general election => ENROL
22 Across: Minor League Baseball's Amarillo Sod Poodles took their name as a slang reference to this locally abundant critter => PRAIRIEDOG
27 Across: In 1967 Anthony Hopkins played this supporting, but career-enhancing, role to Laurence Olivier => UNDERSTUDY
28 Across: In the system of Greek numerals this letter has a value of 300 => TAU
29 Across: Appropriate name of the emergency kill switch that initiates shutdown of a nuclear reactor => SCRAM

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Operating system that preceded DOS, created in 1974 and used on Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers => CPM
2 Down: Mount where the Taoist Temple of Supreme Purity, dated to the Ming Dynasty, is located => LAO
3 Down: Key you might try pressing rapidly several times when you realize that you have started to erase your entire hard drive! => ESC
4 Down: Island off Queensland and part of the Palm Islands group whose Aboriginal name is Soopun => ESK
5 Down: Loops that Toucan Sam has represented since 1963 => FROOT
6 Down: According to Oprah, if she says this about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well => OHNICE
7 Down: Misses the last bus, say => LEGSIT
8 Down: Dr. who came up with Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang in 1992 => DRE
10 Down: Co. involved in many collections in Kampala, Gulu and Jinja (abbr.) => URA
11 Down: Ben, junior US Senator for Nebraska since 2015 => SASSE
14 Down: Revlon's ___ 27 moisture cream => ETERNA
15 Down: Charles Kane's estate from the Welles 1941 movie => XANADU
16 Down: Role Maurice Roeves played in John Huston's Escape to Victory in 1981 => PYRIE
19 Down: Chicago's full contact women's football team that won the LFL US Legends Cup four times in the past ten years => BLISS
21 Down: Draftsman George ___, protagonist of the acclaimed sci-fi's novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin ('71) => ORR
22 Down: Stock market option you enter into when you're not entirely optimistic about a stock's future => PUT
23 Down: E-ZPass as used on the MA Turnpike and VA's Midtown Tunnel/US Route 58 is one of these fee transfer systems => ETC
24 Down: Letters prominently displayed on stop signs you might see in Ankara or Izmir => DUR
25 Down: Where the Nima Sand Museum, containing the world's largest hourglass, is located => ODA
26 Down: Place that my dad once told me was a nickname for games and I believed him for years => GYM

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This crossword has 14 across clues and 21 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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