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with arrow keys
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Boring
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Morty's grandpa, on a Cartoon Network show
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Kellogg products, in brief?
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Clued in
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Smoothie fruit
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Bogus butter
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"ET" subject
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/faul/ x 2
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Like el desierto de Sonora
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Long in the movies
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/tal/ x 2
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High-yield deposits
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Sounded like
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Results of bargaining, sometimes
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Blow away
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Street urchin's attire
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Dunking Duncan
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/mal/ x 2
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Shopkeeper on "The Simpsons"
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Fibulae and tibiae, e.g.
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A grand slam earns four: Abbr.
43
Make quake
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Songs of praise
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Christine of "Chicago Hope"
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/sun/ x 2
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Letters on Big Apple buses
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Exhausted
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/hyüm@r@s/ x 2
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Advocate for the Brown Bar-ba-loots who eat Truffula Fruits
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Colchis-bound ship
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___ Kola (Peruvian soft drink)
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Reason for a new jersey
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Low notes
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Spots
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Worked on a shift, perhaps
DOWN
1
Little sucker?
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Blow away
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Bud
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"Seems to me..."
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Cheapen
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Cockpit necessity
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More standoffish
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Midway worker
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"Santa Baby" singer
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Feds' focus
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Really out of sight?
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High habitats
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Pops
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Biden's Treasury secretary
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Inc. analog
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Defeat
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When Macbeth meets the witches
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Peanuts
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Anthem contraction
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Class support grp.
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Org. with wands
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Braves, on scoreboards
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Corp. symbols
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Ivory soap boast
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Yield from 26-Across
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___ colada
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Country in a Beatles title
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Trap neighbor
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Fix up
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Focus of the Cassini-Huygens probe
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Abbas's grp.
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Mature set
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"Hilarious!" in a text
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"Snow White" villain, e.g.
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Therefore
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Think pieces?
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Creature associated with Thoth
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Simple denials
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Not just rare
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Drink suffix
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Struck out
Synced
Not connected
WSJ Thursday, Jun 12, 2025 You Can Say That Again!
Daily Puzzle | By By Brad Wiegmann/Edited by Mike Shenk
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