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  • Click a cell once to enter an answer, and click that same cell again to switch between horizontal and vertical orientations
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Mideast title
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Upset with
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Heeded a wake-up call
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Stratford-__-Avon
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Top left Battleship coordinate
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Saunter
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Required amount
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Actor Liu
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Brand of smart TVs
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Neon and xenon
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Wedding attendant
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Protective wound cover
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Refutes
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Turn to face the pitcher
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Captivate
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Brake parts
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Like a chimney
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Rice __
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Melodic composition
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"As if!"
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Stable sounds
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Musician Sean Ono __
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Key for special characters
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Spy org.
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Good-natured
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See 17-Down
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NorCal law force, for short
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Air carrier
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Writer Wiesel
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Boomer follower
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College treasurer
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"You __!": "Indeed!"
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M.A. seeker's hurdle
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Song often played at Dodger Stadium
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Quivered
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A quarter after five of
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Thief count in the Ali Baba folktale
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Country singer Clark
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Sound for imitating a car
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"I'm baffled!"
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Cockney or Geordie
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Most unusual
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European peninsula
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Brief chats?
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Hit the slopes
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Iran, formerly
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Carpeting calculation
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Bonsai, e.g.
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Wise
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Melville captain
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"Mi __ es su __"
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American acquisition
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"Just wait __!"
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Trades jabs
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1980s perm style
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Greek moralist
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Bluefin and albacore
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With 108-Across, instruction given to a barber, or how the answers to the starred clues were literally formed
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__-Roman architecture
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By oneself
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See 105-Across
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J.D. seekers' hurdles
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Tire abbreviation
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Bit of henna art
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Two-rod antenna
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Brain __: 2024 Oxford Word of the Year
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Spy-fi novelist Deighton
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Sprinkled
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Brunch option
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PC's "brain"
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Garage fig.
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Soup server
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iPods that replaced Minis
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In vogue
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The "E" of ENT
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Determining factor in playlist selection, perhaps
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*Body art of a beloved's silhouette?
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Homecoming events
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*Advisors on robe or wand selection?
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Gather
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Safeties in the NFL, briefly
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*Beer that belongs in a museum?
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Do a trial run on
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Like some Summer Olympics events
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*Faithful helpers who are less helpful after some time off?
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"Amazing!"
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Like some black diamond runs
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*Practicing to be worthy of elite double Dutch equipment?
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Ship in 1898 news
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*Sumerian king's image?
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With 47-Across, "House" actor
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Well-used pencil
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"That __ true!"
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Stern's counterpart
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Downwind
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1990s soccer star Lalas
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Ward off
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Prattles on
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__ monde: fashionable society
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Some forensic evidence
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Icy rain
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Skirmish
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Security letters
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Kentucky college
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Emu kin
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Fails to hold, in a way
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Battery bit
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68-Down team in Fla.
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"Star Wars" sporting vehicles
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Org. for Suns and Rockets
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Rowing blade
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Half of a craps pair
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Madre's hermana
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"Elastic Heart" singer
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Bygone soda in pink cans
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TV friend of Sheldon
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"Red Notice" actress Gadot
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Favorable qualities
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Pursued, as a tip
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Bald baby?
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Basic need
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Throbs
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Consecrate
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Furnished with a handle
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Small nocturnal bird of prey
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Final syllable
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Investigate anew, as a cold case
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Look online
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Ink squirters
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Prepare for a pass, in basketball
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Other, in Spanish
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Sport with horses
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Delta HQ
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"__ Misérables"
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