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They clear the cobwebs
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They clear the cobwebs
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Sporting unseating
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Currently deprioritized
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Long-term irritant
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Had regard
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Try to heal
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Utilizing
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"My fault"
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Cottonwood kin
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Book deals
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Givers of exams
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Where Keawakapu Beach is
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On-screen "Super" man
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"Don't ask me again!"
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Hollywood icon whom Johnny (nearly uniquely) visited in his Tonight Show dressing room
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Shapes into impressive shapes
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Jacob's eldest
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Encircled
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Calligraphy mishaps
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Tamale holders
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Inflated account
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Follow closely
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Supts.' concerns
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Decorative bedding
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Decantation sound
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Up in the air, for short
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Stevenson epithet for Hyde
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Tartar sauce tidbit
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"Distinguished and de luxe" newsstand debut of 1930
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Literary thriftiness
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Stores like Tupperware
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Expats, often
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Book bought by Barnes & Noble
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Melodramatic release
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Attacks in haste
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Small diamond
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Save from the rag bag
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Band with Japanese CDs
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Attire first allowed on the Senate floor in the 1990s
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Myth-fitting riser as Orion sets
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Rectitudinous
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Spots for scrubs
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Macrocosm
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Extreme disobedience
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Extreme disobedience
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Brace place
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__ soup
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Bimonthly with 40+ million readership (2024)
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Cactus array
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Becomes inseparable
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"To __ a mischief that is past and gone...": Othello
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Defeats easily, in sports headlines
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Slumber party gabfest fodder
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Stock market purchase
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Close kin of creme patissiere
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Drum set?
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"Whee!"
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It borders eastern India
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Appropriate rhyme for "Liechtenstein"
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He's heard in Mambo Kings
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Way to go
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They're not right
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Nicely named antifreeze brand
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Crystal __
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"Faux" fashions
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PJ top
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Singaporean celebration
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Newsday Saturday, Jun 14, 2025 SATURDAY STUMPER
Daily Puzzle | By Lars G. Doubleday, edited by Stanley Newman
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