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Inclement
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"Let me know if ___ help"
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"Damn Yankees" siren
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Mrs. Kramden of "The Honeymooners"
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Grp. that outlasted the Warsaw Pact
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Sacred bird of the pharaohs
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Rock bottom
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Gator's cousin
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Captain for 40 days and nights
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Wisconsin pro footballer
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Craze
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Wedge-shaped inlet
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Reconstruction outsider
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Length of 14 2/3 football fields
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George Bush's home state
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Fashion magazine
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Airport flight info: Abbr.
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Wine cask
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Can.'s southern neighbor
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Trucker's rig
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Freeway sign with an arrow
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Consider
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Golden Gloves participant
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Big inits. in long distance
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Opposite of absorb
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Center of Mt. St.. Helens
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Cre?che figures
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Brilliant star
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Play much too broadly on stage
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Stewpot
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26- or 55-Down
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Joe of the Yankees
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Hammer's end
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"Auld Lang ___"
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Underhanded sort
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Send to the gallows
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Morning waker-upper
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"___ cock-horse to Banbury Cross"
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Biology or chemistry
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Rupture
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Old Peruvian
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Actor Grant
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Perched on
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Diet food catch phrase
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Connection
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Penetrating wind
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Fibber
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Close-grained wood
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One of TV's Simpsons
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Undercover org.
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Russia's ___ the Great
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Bedroom community
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Activity for which "it takes two"
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Stickum
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"... or ___!" (threat)
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Paper purchase
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Small plateau
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Any thing
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Holy man of Tibet
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From Tuscany, e.g.
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Sci-fi creatures
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Company bigwig
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"Yeah, sure!"
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List ender
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Wading birds
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Workplace for the person named at the end of 20-, 25-, 45- or 52-Across
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Half of octa-
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Place between hills
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Look at long ... and with longing
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Prying
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___ the Terrible
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Org. helping people in need
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Smell
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Implement in a bucket
2 ahead
Not connected
New York Times, Monday, December 5, 2005
Daily Puzzle | By Gary Steinmehl / Will Shortz
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