Crossword Answers For: Thursday, August 20, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: One who may have been subservient to King Caustantín or King Oengus II, 1200 years ago => PICT
5 Across: Route you can take to get from Huntington State Beach to Hermosa Beach, for short => PCH
8 Across: ___ Ceren, National Security Advisor for Sen. Ted Cruz since April 2018 => OMRI
9 Across: 12th century Provence stonemason who chiseled his signature in Vaison Cathedral and Apt Cathedral => UGO
10 Across: Term coined in 1921 from the Tibetan phrase metoh-kangmi, when metoh was misspelled as metch, then misinterpreted as filthy => ABOMINABLE
14 Across: No God at the Bottom of a Glass, a 2014 award-winning documentary tells the story of this org. (abbr.) => SOS
15 Across: Dog that accompanied Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker on the first ever trans-USA automobile ride (1903) => BUD
16 Across: Dollar amt. on the sticker, often (abbr.) => MSRP
17 Across: In the traditional sea shanty Toms Gone To Hilo, the destination wasn't Hawaii but this Peruvian nitrate port (var.) => YLO
18 Across: The line that stations at Cambridge Bay, NU, Point Barrow, AK and Cape Parry, NT were once situated on (abbr.) => DEW
19 Across: Comedian Mort, who once became a deputized member of DA Jim Garrison's team investigating the Kennedy Assassination => SAHL
21 Across: 16 nation intergovernmental astronomical research org. with research facilities located in northern Chile (abbr.) => ESO
22 Across: ___ Keppler, once owner and cartoonist for Puck magazine and honorary chief of the Seneca Nation with the name Gyantwaka => UDO
23 Across: Country where you can visit the Tomb of King Tongmyong => NORTHKOREA
28 Across: US major funding agency, in addition to the NIH, responsible for getting the Human Genome Project rolling => DOE
29 Across: Vertical Scrabble introduced by Selchow and Righter in 1958 and which can still be seen on boardgamegeek.com => RSVP
30 Across: 285 mi Polish river that runs north through the city of Sanok => SAN
31 Across: Gas discovered in 1898 that changed the appearance of western civilization => NEON

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Kentucky bluegrass, as far as botanists are concerned => POA
2 Down: Neutrino observatory built almost 2000 ft down in the Morton salt mine in Mentor, Ohio in 1979-1981, for short => IMB
3 Down: Something you're quite familiar with that the Pittsburgh Press and The Boston Globe had both printed by 1917 => CROSSWORDS
4 Down: Isle at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands whose name (unsurprisingly!) comes from the Malay for east => TIMOR
5 Down: Comment about a miserable, rainy and overcast day: There is gloom for improvement!, for example => PUN
6 Down: IBM's first PC card from 1981 that was to become a computer display standard instead of merely black and white (abbr.) => CGA
7 Down: One of the creations Tchaikovsky played with in the third piece of his Opus 39, Album pour enfants => HOBBYHORSE
11 Down: Org. responsible for ensuring the safety of Gov. J. B. Pritzker since January last year => ISP
12 Down: EP released by Smashing Pumpkins in November 1991 => LULL
13 Down: West African kingdom until 1897 in what is now present day Nigeria => EDO
16 Down: Prefix meaning middle, frequently applied to the America the Olmecs dominated => MESO
18 Down: Pharaoh married to Semat, Nakht-Neith and maybe Qaineit, who ruled Egypt in the First Dynasty about 5,100 years ago => DEN
19 Down: Composer Josef ___, protege and eventually son-in-law of composer Antonín Dvorák => SUK
20 Down: Hang a barnstar, hex sign or wagon wheel on your house => ADORN
24 Down: 81 mile long Cuban river, located mostly in Guantanamo Province, that enters the Caribbean just north of Baracoa => TOA
25 Down: Isle that, in 1960, was the only remaining location of the N.Z. North Island saddleback bird => HEN
26 Down: President Morales of Bolivia who resigned last year and received political asylum from Mexico and Argentina => EVO
27 Down: US sister org. to Shalom Achshav which advocates a two-state Palestinian-Israeli mid-east resolution => APN

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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