Crossword Answers For: Friday, August 14, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Gizmo nicknamed a meatball that provides glidepath info to pilots coming down on a carrier (abbr.) => OLS
4 Across: ___ Ennessim: Egypt's national holiday that marks the beginning of spring => SHAM
8 Across: Natl. org. for experts studying the causes and effects of disease and lab medicine => CAP
9 Across: Administrative body of the Holy See, the constitution of which is under review by Pope Francis => CURIA
11 Across: Oprah Winfrey's alma mater, in brief => TSU
12 Across: 2008 Pulitzer winner Tracy, who wrote the play August: Osage County => LETTS
13 Across: Nerve that creates a blind spot in vertebrates but not in cephalopods => OPTIC
15 Across: The ___ Man, who appeared at the start of each Monty Python's Flying Circus episode only to be cut off after a single word => ITS
16 Across: Acclaimed debut album of Caroline Polachek, aka CEP or Ramona Lisa, released in October of last year => PANG
17 Across: Coconuts, cassava or breadfruit, to Fijians => CROP
19 Across: Island and only place where Crateromys paulus, a critically endangered rat, lives => ILIN
20 Across: Card shy of a full deck, so to speak => LOCO
21 Across: Collective term for the users of the Big Island's Astronomy Precinct, for short => MKO
22 Across: Vehicles that might have a Detroit Diesel DD15 14.8-liter inline six-cylinder under the hood => SEMIS
23 Across: Big, bloody tube => AORTA
25 Across: Lil ___ X, aka Montero Lamar Hill; most-nominated male artist the January 2020 Grammy Awards => NAS
26 Across: Look that Charles Darwin related to the snarl seen in carnivores => SNEER
27 Across: Time period that the third film of Eric Rohmer's Contes des quatre saisons takes place (1996) => ETE
28 Across: Actor Morales who played Henry Arista on 2019's The Wall of Mexico => ESAI
29 Across: Network that owns local TV rights of the Yankees, Brooklyn Nets, NYC FC and WNBA's NY Liberty => YES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: They're well-armed but really not that dangerous => OCTOPI
2 Down: Twin city of San Antonio since 1975 => LASPALMAS
3 Down: What was launched from Site No.1/5, at the 5th Tyuratam range, in Kazakh SSR in 1957 => SPUTNIKONE
4 Down: Civil rights org. that has its roots in a meeting at Atlanta's Ebenezer Church in January 1957 => SCLC
5 Down: Vietnamese location of the Pagoda of the Celestial Lady => HUE
6 Down: One of 30 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN in 1948 => ARTICLE
7 Down: Real person behind the Twitter account with the name Pierre Delecto, discovered in October 2019 => MITTROMNEY
10 Down: Word which precedes Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in all cases except one => ASSOCIATE
14 Down: Pretends to not see it, perhaps => IGNORES
18 Down: Deputized groups often seen in old oaters, like 1903's The Great Train Robbery or 1950's Trail of Robin Hood => POSSES
22 Down: First name that socialite and actress Zsa Zsa was born with => SARI
24 Down: In 2015 US residents drank 8.26 gallons of this per capita => TEA

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This crossword has 20 across clues and 13 down clues. In total 33 clues are solved in the section above.
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