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With 132-Across, tartan-wearing teen idols of the '70s
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With 132-Across, tartan-wearing teen idols of the '70s
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It's usually full of shit
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AKA in the WSJ
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"Despicable Me" voice actress Fisher
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"Eat the Rich" author P.J.
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"The Hobbit" trilogy, e.g.
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Rehab fixture Lindsay
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The Who song that was the first to be played twice on MTV
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Number one in drug testing?
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K-O sequence?
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Pack complement
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Pixies spinoff that's way better than the Pixies (to our ears)
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Consumed
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General linked to poultry
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Boston's Liberty Tree, e.g.
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Major monthly expense
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Peppermint Patty, e.g.
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What upright things stand on
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Coors alcopop brand popular in the '90s
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Bill S. Preston, Esq., and Ted "Theodore" Logan's band
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Quaintly shy
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Mother-in-law, e.g.: Abbr.
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Day new records come out in shops: Abbr.
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Maroons
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Genre for Tortoise and other experimentalists using guitars and drums, etc.
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Totally forget you were supposed to be somewhere for the thing
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Poser
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Brainiac's opposite
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In these parts
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"___ Springfield" (Kent Brockman show)
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Like a real SOB
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Metal band whose mascot is Eddie
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Neil Young's backup band
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Emmy winner Hatcher
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Russian crepes
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Minuscule amount
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Cause ___
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2014, por ejemplo
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Tortoise's label
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Best in Show org.
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Unstable
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Conor Oberst's label
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Level below the majors
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Great American ___
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Titan of Jamaican dub production
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Some footnote symbols
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Warren, e.g.
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Russian body that's a subject of environmental concern
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Soccer superstar Lionel
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Rob Ford's prov.
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___ reporter
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Rage
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Action star Michelle
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"Another PBR here"
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Run-D.M.C.'s home borough
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Lauds
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Political correspondent Matt
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Meadow
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Q's neighbor
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"Your father's on the phone ..."
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Complain
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Staples purchase
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"Who ever could have guessed!"
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Motion rejection
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In base eight
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Actress Long
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Provoke
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Letters before Nabisco, once
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John Kerry's wife
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George Eads's TV series
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Songs sung in lederhosen
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Sites for French summers?
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer
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Year of Charles V's reign
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Ohio city that inspired the Pretenders’ “My City Was Gone”
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Diagram, as a sentence
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Kitchen device
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"Get Yer ___ Out!" (Rolling Stones album)
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Bottled drink brand with a lizard in its logo
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Besides that
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Prefix with blast and parasite
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Bar fight reminder
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Via, archaically
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Bub
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December 31, 2013 - "A DJ at the Races" - BEQ and Francis Heaney, edited by Ben Tausig
Daily Puzzle | By Brendan Emmett Quigley and Francis Heaney
Note: 39-Around: Song that's ostensibly hidden but that everyone knows is there
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