Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: ___ predator (animal at the top of the food chain) => APEX
5 Across: Sacred symbol => TOTEM
10 Across: Big name in pineapple => DOLE
11 Across: Language heard in Laos and Minnesota => HMONG
12 Across: The Flaming ___ (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots band) => LIPS
13 Across: Marsh plants => REEDS
14 Across: Lyricist Gershwin or podcaster Madison III => IRA
15 Across: Spanish for sun => SOL
16 Across: Notorious Tammany Hall politician => BOSSTWEED
20 Across: Senator whose recent New York Times op-ed caused an uproar at the paper => TOMCOTTON
22 Across: Cremains holder => URN
23 Across: React to a viewing of Beaches, probably => CRY
24 Across: Guy hiding in a children's book series => WALDO
27 Across: Where the Sidewalk Ends poet Silverstein => SHEL
28 Across: Eel, on a sushi menu => UNAGI
29 Across: Finding ___ (prequel to Finding Dory) => NEMO
30 Across: Watch brand that takes a licking and keeps on ticking => TIMEX
31 Across: Norse god played by Anthony Hopkins => ODIN

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Speak off the cuff => ADLIB
2 Down: Role for Branagh in 2017's Murder on the Orient Express => POIROT
3 Down: Westernmost city in Texas => ELPASO
4 Down: Marks a ballot, maybe => XES
5 Down: Quickly dress oneself in, as an outfit => THROWON
6 Down: Folded item at brunch => OMELET
7 Down: Part of a boot => TOE
8 Down: This Is the ___ (Seth Rogen comedy) => END
9 Down: Classic British sports cars => MGS
15 Down: Largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands => STCROIX
17 Down: Blot => SMUDGE
18 Down: Marked indelibly => ETCHED
19 Down: The Sound of Music song => DOREMI
21 Down: Stocking stuff => NYLON
24 Down: Humorous huh? => WUT
25 Down: No Walls and the Recurring Dream memoirist DiFranco => ANI
26 Down: On the ___ (fleeing) => LAM
27 Down: ___-cone (rainbow-colored treat) => SNO

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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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