Crossword:
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Across
1 With 36-Across, where many captive-bred California condors have been released
4 Letter sound at the beginning of “California” 9 Smoke shop purchase 11 Lexus competitor
12 Gobble (down)
14 ___ borchii, scientific name for the bianchetto truffle 15 Root veggie used in healthy chips
17 Got in a chair
18 Noted 20th-century Olympic runner from the Hopi Nation
21 One of 25 photographed by the Bachrach family 23 Extinct animal that was technically a deer, and didn’t exclusively reside in Ireland
24 Completely free (of)
25 Follower of Guru Nanak 27 Keep from happening, as crisis
30 Regional flora and fauna
33 Incan drinking vessels containing the earliest known use of titanium white pigment
34 Communicating in ASL, say
35 “No worries!”
36 See 1-Across
Down
1 Toy gun ammo
2 Charged particle
3 Small pest to swat at 4 Bowler, for instance
5 Prefix with puncture
6 Really gloats about
7 Thought about in one’s sleep 8 Magna ___
10 Shreds, as cheese
13 Just picked from the garden, say
16 Little boo-boos
19 Go off-script
20 Bare, in slangy dialect 21 Shrub of the olive family 22 Passengers
23 Resident of Baghdad or Mosul
26 Tools used for weeding 28 Hopper in Australia, for short
29 “For shame!” sound
31 Letter after sigma
32 It’s between the Atlantic and Indian oceans: Abbr.