Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Captain in Moby-Dick => AHAB
5 Across: Your Body Is a Wonderland singer John => MAYER
10 Across: CNN journalist Bash => DANA
11 Across: Play ___ in (affect) => AROLE
12 Across: With The, 1983 Best Picture nominee in which Chuck Yeager, who died at age 97 on Monday, breaks the sound barrier => RIGHTSTUFF
14 Across: The Jackson 5's ___ Be There => ILL
15 Across: Now I understand! => OHH
16 Across: Mr. T's show, with The => ATEAM
18 Across: Functions => USES
22 Across: Joyeux ___ (French for Merry Christmas) => NOEL
23 Across: Painting holder => FRAME
24 Across: From ___ Z (completely) => ATO
26 Across: Cost for a service => FEE
27 Across: Pulitzer-winning playwright who got an Oscar nomination for playing Yeager in 12-Across => SAMSHEPARD
31 Across: No longer sleeping => AWAKE
32 Across: Impulse => URGE
33 Across: Butter ___ (ice cream flavor) => PECAN
34 Across: Like games where neither side is winning => TIED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Lions running back Peterson => ADRIAN
2 Down: ___ the Chief (song played for the president) => HAILTO
3 Down: He directed Will Smith in Gemini Man => ANGLEE
4 Down: ___ humbug! => BAH
5 Down: Prepare potatoes, sometimes => MASH
6 Down: Tennis great Ashe => ARTHUR
7 Down: How have ___ been? => YOU
8 Down: ___ on the Shelf => ELF
9 Down: NBA employee in black-and-white stripes => REF
13 Down: Holland or Hardy => TOM
17 Down: State struck by landslides from heavy rains earlier this week => ALASKA
19 Down: Word from the Swahili for travel => SAFARI
20 Down: Come to prominence => EMERGE
21 Down: Ranked before the tournament => SEEDED
23 Down: Enemy => FOE
25 Down: What happened next was... => THEN
27 Down: Fluid from a tree trunk => SAP
28 Down: Total amazement => AWE
29 Down: PC alternative => MAC
30 Down: Let me ___ it this way... => PUT

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 21 down clues. In total 39 clues are solved in the section above.
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