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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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Dazed condition
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Four-time winner of the Australian Open
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Financial agency based in D.C.
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House rejection
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Place to play "Pac-Man"
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Animal that resembles the Canadian lynx
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"Go for the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life" author Hamm
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"Nice job!"
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More relaxed junkyard dog barks in a shrill way?
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Doesn't include
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Body wrap business
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Sign before Virgo
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"C'___ la vie!"
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Palm grown in northern Africa
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Fallback option
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Beardless theater employees?
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___ Minderbinder, mess officer in "Catch-22"
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Apply crudely
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Covers, as cupcakes
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Small deer
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Parting word in Paris
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"I had a joke about oil, but I'm still refining it," e.g.
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Closes up securely
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"Conjunction Junction" or "Busy Prepositions" from "Schoolhouse Rock!"?
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Understanding of the situation
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"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" actress Thurman
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Station that fills in the blanks of "for_er Russ_an o_biter"
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Like misbehaving kids
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Thing sown in a garden
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Piece of leftover food
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State as fact
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Sch. that hosts Minerpalooza
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Source of some corny jokes
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Dress lines
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Racy books about the hole where Godzilla and Mothra can be found?
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High point
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Extremely long period
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Fight club, once?
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Like some pleas and pleasures
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Deep space
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Cloud ___ (idiomatic happy place)
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"Soon"
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Fish whose name is "fire" in Hawaiian
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What the first letter of 97 Down stands for
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Fall off
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Enjoys one root vegetable?
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Attempts to conquer
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Unfortunate
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San Diego athlete
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About, on memos
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Foot's curve
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Take a load off
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The head's go-aheads
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Tech support caller from Tegucigalpa?
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Crispy breakfast item
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Swallowed
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Parts of a yr.
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"First thing I'd say is ..."
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"Step on the ___!" ("Floor it!")
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Cords for corgis
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Klutzy authority on an intergovernmental org.?
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Night's counterpart
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"What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory" co-author Brian
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The K of K-drama
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___ pig (lab animal)
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Happy hour beverage
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Motor oil brand
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Speakers removed from the house, say
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Become visible
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Squid ink holders
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Sand ___ (golf hazard)
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Sch. with the mascots Joe and Josephine Bruin
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Jenna's role on "The Office"
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Wide receiver Beckham Jr.
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Check again, as a paragraph
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___ Dhabi
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Splatter film feature
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Deep space
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Like Ebert's reviews in "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie"
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Maple substance
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"___ nothing personal"
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"Put it this way ..."
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Cocktails, potions, etc.
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Cleansers for one's nose, cheeks and forehead
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"There's a lot riding on this, but hey, don't worry about it!"
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Make changes to
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Affirmative answers
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Packaged goods giant
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Merman of Broadway
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___ Moines, Iowa
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Angelou's "A Brave and Startling Truth," e.g.
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Come apart suddenly
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High card, often
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Brink
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Material produced when rocks in the mantle or the crust melt
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Elba of "Prometheus"
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Untruthful people
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Start, as a laptop
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Shadow found inside "plum brandy"
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"Always happy to help!"
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Egyptian leader Anwar
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Teacher of the Quran
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Afternoon snoozes
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Kevin McHale's role on "Glee"
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Perform differently
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Cherished
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Masala ___ (blend of tea, herbs and spices)
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___ out a living (barely gets by)
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H in the Greek alphabet
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1 in 1,000,000, e.g.?
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Virologist Salk
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Syllabus component
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Person signing a lease
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Clownish sort
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Brazilian palm berry
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Stubble spot
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"Let's Get It On" singer
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Calrissian of the Rebel Alliance
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Bronze medalist's place
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"Egads!"
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Frantic scrambles
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India's first prime minister
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Selling point
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Double-reed instrument
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Where you can get drinks at a fair price?
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Old greeting cards and postcards, e.g.
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Chance to sound off
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Peru's mountain chain
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Apt. coolers
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"Yeah, so ...?"
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Norma whose song "You're Dead" serves as the theme song for "What We Do in the Shadows"
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Broom-___ (witch in a comic strip)
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Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille
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Ancient fabulist
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Wrestling ring cords
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ERA, RBI or WHIP, e.g.
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Part of one's personal code
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Zone
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Symbol on Cuba's flag
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Prez Eisenhower
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"___ you're talking!"
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113 Across, en français
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World-Building
Daily Puzzle | By Evan Birnholz
Note: The answer to this week's metapuzzle is the missing 11-letter theme answer, formed by combining two entries in the completed grid.
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