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"You've said more than enough!"
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"You've said more than enough!"
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Jerry Stiller, to Ben
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"Abbott Elementary" network
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"I hate when women compare men to dogs. ... Men are not dogs. Dogs are loyal. ... I've never found any strange panties in my dog's house" speaker Sykes
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Wilde quality
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"Wild Shuffle Hands" card game
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Pulsate strongly
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75-kilobyte message, perhaps
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Unexpected blessings
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Buckeye State resident
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___-read (go through a trilogy in a day, say)
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Dramatic bet
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___ channel (passage for charged particles)
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Place sought in the film "Paddington in Peru"
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Descriptor for some soups in American Chinese cuisine
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Settings for camera lens apertures
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"Happy ___ year!" (punny phrase on a Jan. 1 meme featuring a wildebeest)
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Cones' ocular partners
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Never, in Nuremberg (and 21 Down backward)
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Mental grasp
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Some seasonal cupfuls
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Picks up
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"___ I help you?"
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Dog inspector
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Nat ___ Wild
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Color gradations
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"Is that true of me?"
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Pastrami venue
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Hold fast
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Copenhageners, e.g.
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Not yet cynical
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Spirits often bottled with moth larvae
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Jennifer Lopez hit with the lyric "What you get is what you see"
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Comes off as
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In need of sustenance
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Carp-catching item
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Only U.S. state that borders one U.S. state
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Site for some independent artists
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Colombo locale
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Carl who "made every room he walked into funnier, smarter, kinder," per George Clooney
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"___atouille" animal
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Learns some private information
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With respect to
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Band seen in "The Karate Kid"?
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Shed object
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At rest
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Wedding cake section
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Number of years that a couple have been married when celebrating a platinum anniversary
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Severe shortage
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One going downhill fast
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XING preceder
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Prenatal test, for short
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Give as an example
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Zangief's country of origin in the 1991 video game "Street Fighter II"
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Move up and down, as wings
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"His Majesty's Dragon" novelist Novik
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One assuming the worst
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Reduces friction
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Negligent
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Description of the TV series spelled out in the circled squares (as well as this puzzle's theme)
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Surface that a Zamboni drives over
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Related to office work or a religious office
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Former internet broadcaster that once allowed access to XM stations
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Biblical beast of burden
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Completely safe
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Convenes in
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Like a haircut that ends just below the shoulders
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"You'll have a blast!"
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"Beats me!"
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"What of it ...?"
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Hoedown dance move
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"That feels nice ..."
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Concision
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"Calm down!"
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Online programs
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Surrounded by
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One of the iPod models
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Be a groundbreaking figure?
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Microbrewery offering
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Hearing test pitches
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Corrupt person
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Shoot the breeze
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A, in Augsburg
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"You shall ___ pass!" (line from Gandalf)
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Vintage
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Comic's practice
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Guesstimate phrase
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Dominated, as a test
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Redbor ___ (vegetable)
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Home of Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center
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Los Toldos-born Perón
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Shrek, Fiona, etc.
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"Oh for crying out loud!"
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Ruby of "Jungle Fever"
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Match point?
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Musical intervals such as B to C and E to F
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Basketball Hall of Famer Wes
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Spiritual leader who wrote "The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace"
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Award won by Elaine Stritch for her recurring role on "30 Rock"
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Commanders quarterback Jayden
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"East of Eden" Oscar nominee
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Feature of a parabola
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Calligrapher's vessel
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Shamefully inadequate
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One from Vojvodina
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Latin series finale?
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What executors pay
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Moved quickly like a cat
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This is fire!
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Prefix with Darwinism
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Miscalculate
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Buffalo pro in a rink
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Lunchtime, at times
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Surprise attack
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Barely made, with "out"
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Angry Orchard drink
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Fashion house that Prada agreed to purchase in 2025
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2024 vice presidential candidate Walz
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___ polloi
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"___/Ginsburg" (Derrick Wang's comic opera about a pair of Supreme Court justices)
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Flowers featured at a Rochester festival
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Back in the NFL, e.g.?
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Reason for a weather alert
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"Ship of ___" (1965 drama directed by Stanley Kramer)
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First baseman Gehrig
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Palindromic flour used in a palindromic bread
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___ Penh (Cambodia's capital)
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Physicist who studied supersonic flow
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"Now You See Me" actress Fisher
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Some CEOs' degrees
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One and only
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"Stand by Me" actor Wheaton
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Number after due
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Accessory figuratively tossed into the ring
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Cards in wallets
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"My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3" star and director Vardalos
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Obtained
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WaPo Sunday, May 11, 2025 Plot Holes
Daily Puzzle | By Evan Birnholz
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