Crossword Answers For: Thursday, August 27, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Try to get a bad taste out of your mouth, say => SPIT
5 Across: Wore => HADON
10 Across: Hand over => CEDE
11 Across: History Channel reality show where contestants live by themselves in desolate places for as long as they can => ALONE
12 Across: India nominated for a 2020 Grammy for Steady Love => ARIE
13 Across: ___ out (defeated by a tiny margin) => NOSED
14 Across: Surprisingly delicious fast-food morsel with a Spicy variety being rolled out on Sept. 16th, the first variation since it was first introduced in 1983 => MCNUGGET
16 Across: Trapezoid and decagon, e.g. => SHAPES
17 Across: Whipped dessert => MOUSSE
22 Across: Comedian who joked in a 1991 SNL sketch that included the lines: What I want to know is, what part of the chicken does a [14-Across] come from? If it McComes from where I McThink it does, I don't want to McEat it! => SEINFELD
24 Across: Board game with ore, wheat, and sheep => CATAN
26 Across: Critter that says Ribbit => FROG
27 Across: Cheri who guest-starred on a 2019 episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend => OTERI
28 Across: Pull a fast one on => DUPE
29 Across: Cries one's eyes out => BAWLS
30 Across: Iowa State University's city => AMES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Get-rich-quick schemes => SCAMS
2 Down: Fish that's also a place to sit => PERCH
3 Down: Menzel in Uncut Gems => IDINA
4 Down: What Collin Morikawa has to do before driving => TEEUP
5 Down: Wins after almost blowing a big lead => HANGSON
6 Down: ___ Blacc (The Man singer) => ALOE
7 Down: Methinks thou ___ protest too much (common Shakespeare misquote) => DOST
8 Down: First of all... => ONE
9 Down: Stark family patriarch => NED
15 Down: Marilyn Monroe and Lauryn Hill, astrologically => GEMINIS
18 Down: Minnesota expression of dismay, from the Norwegian => UFFDA
19 Down: Truth ___ (it supposedly makes people unable to lie) => SERUM
20 Down: Ski run => SLOPE
21 Down: Borders => EDGES
22 Down: Irish ___ (dish made with lamb) => STEW
23 Down: Rapper Sweatshirt or NFL great Campbell => EARL
24 Down: Holder of kernels => COB
25 Down: Let's take this one step ___ time => ATA

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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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