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1 Era of ignorance 9 Elevators in an office building? Houston squad, casually Eaglelike Mississippi River bottom feeder “Wouldn’t that be nice!” Satchel for a homicide detective? Joe of “GoodFellas” Something found at the top of many a Google search page Manufactured Baking soda has many of these Tush Danny Ocean’s ex-wife in “Ocean’s Eleven” Unseasonal wear on a winter vacation? Map Parisian waters Jewish mourning period Zoom, e.g. Baseball stats sometimes called 39-Down Jerk Static Swiss canton that was home to William Tell Variety of stud poker, familiarly 14
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“Get ____!” Late-morning meal for a TV family? Dorm overseers, for short Sports event with two diacritics in its name
Cry after “Company” Who wrote, “In the land of the blind, the oneeyed man is king” One way to buy mustard cheaply? Like the number i, mathematically Burns writing Strong bond A pillar of Islam Emails such as “Click this link to become an Apollo astronaut”? Erie Canal city ____ Spiegel, co-founder of Snapchat “Darling, won’t you ____ my worried mind” (“Layla” lyric) Peter’s chief of staff on “The Good Wife” Down-on-theirluck sorts
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One caught by a 12-Down Nurse Can-can dancing? Formula for slope in math Costa Rican president who won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Stuffed ____ Clay and oil, for artists
“For heaven ____” Some ways on Waze: Abbr. Split personality? Branch of Islam Appurtenance for a cartoon Neanderthal Mannheim mister Delmonico steak cuts Document listing technical specifications TV network with a science-y name Prefix with puncture More sensible One is roughly the mass of a speck of dust Festoons with Charmin, for short Charged up 53 54
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76 Norwegian king near the end of the first millennium Non-____ (food label) Western powwow held every year or so “Come again?” Limit “Fancy that!” People like you Orfeo in Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” e.g. Not catch 78 79 85
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95 Crescent-shaped Italian pastries Piedmont wine town Alternatives to gelcaps Semiliquid stuff Neural junction So-so filler? Lunkheads Holiday glitter Flora and fauna Plaster for painting Animal used to guard sheep and goats 96 97 98 103 104 106 108
109 Spanish crockery Munchkin “____-Tikki-Tavi” Misreckons “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is ____”: Churchill See 5-Down Numerical prefix Much Top 40 music now