Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Does really, really well at constructing spreadsheets => EXCELS
7 Across: Popular Thai brand of cola, launched in 2012 by Sermsuk after the company had their Pepsico contract terminated => EST
10 Across: Major family blood lines => AORTAS
11 Across: Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter C => TWO
12 Across: Like the temple complex of Angkor Wat and many old English castles => MOATED
13 Across: Something waiting for you in the hold => CARGO
15 Across: Beltsville, MD location where AGRICOLA, which contains over 5,200,000 records, is maintained => NAL
16 Across: Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah's territory => BRUNEI
18 Across: Like the knee-jerk reaction that you make when the doc tests your reflexes => INNATE
21 Across: Ground combat elements of an MEU is based upon this gp., a reinforced infantry unit including amphibious assault vehicles (abbr.) => BLT
23 Across: Coin still around today that originally, in 1496, was set at being equal to 30 grosz => ZLOTY
25 Across: How being on the Northwestern on Deadliest Catch would make me feel => QUEASY
27 Across: The first commercial one of these was introduced by Ampex in 1956 and cost roughly $50,000 => VCR
28 Across: In the Mahabharata, it's stated that a youthful Krishna was sent to see Sand?pan? Muni at one of these => ASHRAM
29 Across: Org. that publishes The Journal of Head and Face Pain every month (abbr.) => AHS
30 Across: Pyramus' lover from Ovid's Metamorphoses => THISBE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: 3-time indoor mile world record holder Coghlan => EAMONN
2 Down: Line often arrived at by beginning tic-tac-toe players => XOO
3 Down: Adjective that you simply can't apply if you go and lose your fool head => CRANIAL
4 Down: SD town whose mine produced some of the largest spodumene crystals in the world, but was closed in '59, leaving a ghost town => ETTA
5 Down: Economist Brainard, member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors since 2014 => LAEL
6 Down: Large computer storage device that doesn't spin, runs silently, won't overheat and costs about a dime a gig (abbr.) => SSD
7 Down: Car that succeeded the Cadillac Biarritz in 1992 and came with Zebrano-trimmed full-floor console with shifter (abbr.) => ETC
8 Down: The Q-tip that you shove in your ear is a small one => SWAB
9 Down: Pressure unit originally intended to be exactly equal to 1 millimeter of mercury, but which ended up being 0.000015% less => TORR
14 Down: Creations that require the use of bridges, truss rods and saddles => GUITARS
17 Down: Type of chemical like Acetolactate decarboxylase or Amylase, both of which brewers might be familiar with => ENZYME
19 Down: ___ Traesnaes, once married to Ernest Borgnine, and founder of her own skincare company => TOVA
20 Down: What Federico Barocci did when he created Virgin Seated on a Cloud => ETCH
21 Down: Cori from St. Louis who defeated 10-term incumbent Lacy Clay in this year's Congressional primary => BUSH
22 Down: City in Utah where Ancestry.com is headquartered => LEHI
24 Down: About 315 million secs would be approx. 10 of these => YRS
25 Down: Principal god of Banks Islanders in Vanuatu whose father was a stone that exploded => QAT
26 Down: Dance acad. in Lincoln Ctr. co-founded by George Ballanchine in '34 that has awarded the Mae L. Wien Awards since '87 (abbr.) => SAB

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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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