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Prattle
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Public square
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Like records
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stored for research Popeye’s
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profession Browser’s
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start-up point Buses, as tables
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Freshly
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Nonsense
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Second letter
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after epsilon Tic-tac-toe win
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Prohibit
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Worthless talk
25
Fury
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Financial claim
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Hanker (for)
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Neighs : horses
37
:: ___ : sheep Landscaper’s
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tool
Raft for a polar
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bear
=
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It’s not odd
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R.N.’s touch
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Unintelligible
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jargon
“So that’s it!”
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Itinerary
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preposition Inexperienced
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reporter Twaddle
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Line down the
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length of a skirt Signing-on info
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Sudden thought
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that makes you go “Wow!” Poisons
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Goes through
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hurriedly, as during a robbery Jacket
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alternatives to buttons “Huh?” … or
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a possible response to 1-, 19-, 25-, 48and 57-Across
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___ Men, group
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with the 2000 hit “Who Let the Dogs Out” Scientology
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founder ___ Hubbard Highest point
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Where spiders
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get their information? Way cool
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Actress Saint
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of “North by Northwest” Alternative to
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Prego 1957 title
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role for Frank Sinatra
In ___ of
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(replacing) March goes out
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like this, as the expression goes “___ the Greek”
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Pyromaniac’s
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crime
Old NASA
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moon-landing vehicle Great Dane
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of cartoons, informally Short hairstyle
20
___ Aviv, Israel
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Match up (with)
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Baghdad’s land
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Boyfriend
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Bartlet of “The
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West Wing” or Clampett of “The Beverly Hillbillies”
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Figure made
29 Mao Zedong Amazon’s virtual
41 54 by lying in was its leader assistant the snow and waving one’s 1960s hippie Icicles and
44 58 arms gatherings burning candles
both do this Sports official, Big Apple sch.
30 46 informally ___ Lingus
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Hawks and
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Voice below doves Mineral springs
34 60 soprano Rebuke to a Individually
50 62
Chocolate/ dog
Singer/lyricist
35 63 caramel candy “Pygmalion” Paul
51
Narrow part of a playwright, for
Classic
36 64 bottle short
computer game Droop Borders set on an island
38 52
Christmas ___ Wears, as “Gangnam
40 53 67
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