Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Degree that Phil Knight of Nike was earning when he came up with his business idea (abbr.) => MBA
4 Across: European Union nation whose first language is actually descended from Siculo-Arabic => MALTA
9 Across: Electric beast that is usually called something that it really isn't => EEL
10 Across: In June of this year NASA reported that exoplanets with one of these may actually be quite common => OCEAN
11 Across: Where Pucara de Tilcara, originally built by the Omaguaca tribe in the 12th century, is located => ARGENTINA
13 Across: Open up Usain's secret to running so fast, perhaps? => UNBOLT
14 Across: One of the pair that almost all arthropods posses => FEELER
15 Across: Sch. Drew Carey went to before he joined the United States Marine Corps Reserve in '80 (abbr.) => KSU
18 Across: Marian ___, mayor of Cheyenne, WY since 2017, who was in the news due to a spat with the Governor of Wyoming in 2019 => ORR
19 Across: Directors James Cameron and Darren Aronofsky, for two => VEGANS
21 Across: Something you can still get for your road trip, but you likely won't need if you have GPS => AAAMAP
22 Across: Something that the Apollo 11 Commander made for mankind => GIANTLEAP
26 Across: Something you should try before searching for a snake => DRANO
27 Across: Letters that describe the situation where you're not responsible for your associates' misconduct => LLP
28 Across: Like bactrian camels, compared to dromedaries => RARER
29 Across: Something many people utter after the letter O at big events => SAY

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Mr. ___, Jerome Horwitz Elementary School's gym teacher in Netflix's Captain Underpants => MEANER
2 Down: ___ the Moor: role played by Danny Sapani in FX's The Bastard Executioner in 2015 => BERBER
3 Down: Triple star system whose variability was apparently noted in the ancient Cairo Calendar of about 3200 years ago => ALGOL
4 Down: Location of Westmount High School where 15 down graduated in 1981 => MONTREAL
5 Down: Something Daniel Day Lewis did in My Left Foot => ACT
6 Down: Something I put together as I wandered through the forest and wore later during my hula dare (and it didn't look pretty) => LEI
7 Down: Something mathematical that the last part of the Mnemonic Sons Of Harloch Come And Harken To Our Anthem alludes to, for short => TAN
8 Down: Item you should be able to see 16 times if you've solved this puzzle correctly => ANA
12 Down: One of these travels at 47 mph at the Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook Finance Centre, in Guangzhou, Guangdong => ELEVATOR
13 Down: Sci-fi film with Alex Sharp and Gillian Anderson about events at the Cincinnati Intl. Airport, released straight to video in 2018 => UFO
15 Down: Joe's running mate, as of August 11, this year => KAMALA
16 Down: ___ Gifts, co. founded in 2015 which last year was listed in Forbes as one of the 10 Most Promising Young Israeli Startups in NY => SNAPPY
17 Down: Male and female facility in Draper, southwest of Salt Lake City, that currently has a capacity of over 4,000 (abbr.) => USP
20 Down: Ancient Irish people, primarily, that sound like they needed some calmness in their lives => GAELS
22 Down: Something that W. Berlin was never a part of, briefly => GDR
23 Down: Sachs, director of Frankie, shot on the Portuguese Riviera and premiered in Cannes in May 2019 => IRA
24 Down: De-briefing process used by the military to find out what, why and how about a particular event (abbr.) => AAR
25 Down: Dir. to fly from Denver if you want to get to Winnipeg, for short => NNE

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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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