Crossword Answers For: Monday, August 17, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Party that presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette represented and received almost 5 million votes in 1928 (abbr.) => SPA
4 Across: The beginning of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 novel that follows U-96 => DAS
7 Across: Todd ___, former Representative from Missouri from 2001-13 => AKIN
8 Across: Police force that operated in Northern Ireland during The Troubles of the sixties (abbr.) => RUC
9 Across: Country that has won only a single Olympic gold medal - in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling - in the past 70 years => EGYPT
10 Across: Government-owned power company operating in Montevideo and first established in 1912 (abbr.) => UTE
11 Across: Artist who won an Academy, Golden Globe and Grammy Award for 1989's Let the River Run => CARLYSIMON
13 Across: Result of ((major axis) x (minor axis) x ?) / 4 for an ellipse => AREA
14 Across: People of Zambia renowned for their realistic carvings => YOMBE
15 Across: Coin and medal sculptor Hemphill of the US Philadelphia Mint whose work you have likely seen in your change => PHEBE
17 Across: Church & Dwight brand since 2001 that gives you the option of using natural clay leg masks => NAIR
18 Across: New CEO of the USPS since May of this year => LOUISDEJOY
20 Across: What a British chap who's yelling Over 'ere. Quick! really needs => ELP
21 Across: The Castilian mark was once worth 8 3/8 of these silver coins in the 15th century => PESOS
22 Across: Paraplegic Earth Kingdom 13 year old who lived in the Northern Air Temple in Avatar: The Last Airbender => TEO
23 Across: Escalation from the middle of the in crowd, for short => INCR
24 Across: Tom Clancy's '96 techno-thriller novel about a nuclear attack sub that tied in with a video game of the same name => SSN
25 Across: School where there are Hornets buzzing around the athletic fields (abbr.) => ASU

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Saturn V non-crewed payload of May 14, 1973, made from Kennedy's launch pad 39A => SKYLABI
2 Down: Like the Keystone XL, or a plastic straw, for that matter => PIPY
3 Down: Like many type A types waiting for the results of their esophagogastroduodenoscopy, maybe => ANTSY
4 Down: The ___ Instinct: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sermon from Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church in February 1968 => DRUMMAJOR
5 Down: Saint Augustine of Hippo's Confessions and Benvenuto Cellini's Vita, for short => AUTOBIOS
6 Down: There's a lot of it in the wings on Broadway => SCENERY
7 Down: Come to a consensus like management and the union, hopefully => AGREEUPON
9 Down: Even Gerald Ford's 1930's helmet from UMich has these => EARHOLES
11 Down: These are easy to swallow => CAPLETS
12 Down: Sabrina ___, selected by the WNBA NY Liberty as the first overall pick in the draft in April of this year => IONESCU
16 Down: Juan Pujol García, double agent who worked for Britain's MI6 in WWII, known in a 2009 Spanish documentary as Garbo: El ___ => ESPIA
19 Down: Name of the protrusion at the front of your second cervical vertebra (the axis) => DENS

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 13 down clues. In total 31 clues are solved in the section above.
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