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Shopping.com Stage that may

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The “Iliad” or the 15

“Odyssey” Online business Bob Dylan song that was a #2 hit for Peter, Paul & Mary

Aid for making signs Dishes created at restaurant “bars” Power-hungry people have big ones

Achy

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Circumstance that’s good for everyone … with a hint to 17-, 25and 44-Across D sharp equivalent Dicing food or turning on the oven, e.g. Prefix with potent “Gypsy” composer Jule Snoozes

Take a Tinder match offline, say

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Flows’ opposite

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It’s a cinch

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Burn soother

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[That is so

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(visitor to Oz) Things separated 8 by intermissions “How ya holding 9 up?” Battling all out Looked at Things confessed during confession Bygone days, old-style Strand during a winter trip, say Lacks Administer an oath to Single-serve coffee holders Snoops (around) 10 11 12

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Perfect partner Like steak tartare “SportsCenter” for life network

Swahili “sir”

Part of a witch’s

Halloween mask This evening, in Something of

commercialese little matter? Global financial org. Warning on an

Proctor’s call End of an era? airplane wing

Target for a Trios, quartets, Top-of-the-line drug-sniffing dog etc.

Surrealist Comic Atkinson Red state? Salvador of “Bean” and

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