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1A
Outfit for a clerical worker?
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Outfit for a clerical worker?
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Breaks off
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Believer in the Great Pumpkin
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Mariners catcher Raleigh
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Prime
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The largest collection of them is found in Paris's Musée Marmottan
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Subway's destiny > Booster of bad cholesterol
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Silky yarn
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Book containing the story of David and Goliath
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Pursues pinnipeds > Classic ad maxim
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Current event?
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Grade
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Site with a vault
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Racing circuits
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Little row
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Web designer's concern > Stop fidgeting
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Recon unit
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Corp. milestone
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Chihuahua tongue
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Vein fill
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Go fast, briefly
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Gray-brown memos > Man buns
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Some theaters
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James with the 1960 debut album "At Last!"
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Big 12 team
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Omar of "The Deliverance"
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Track star Devers
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Condemn Skywalker > Random chance
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Stella ___ (Belgian beer)
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Unpaid debt
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Grew sentimental, or what the vowels did in answers to the paired clues
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Break through
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Throws in
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Happy Valley sch.
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Plant used for papyrus
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"Perhaps"
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Sound of sorrow
DOWN
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Show pieces?
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Croft of games
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Meeting with lots of pointers?
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Moved cautiously
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It keeps people grounded
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Cloning material
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Play backgrounds
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Gossip
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Come into
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Beat Generation figure Cassady
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Gas or elec., e.g.
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Latv. and Lith., once
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2011, on cornerstones
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Many Rodins
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Visitors in sci-fi flicks
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Purchase disclaimer
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Kate Middleton's sister
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The Eiger, e.g.
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Ben of "Dear Evan Hansen"
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Brand with a colorfully billed mascot
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Special ability
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It's needed when up past nine
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Anti-corporate creative movement
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Minimalist's need
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Negating word
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Calving result
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Dark times in France
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Canceling key
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Unalloyed
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Overtly creative
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Fist bumps
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Michael of "Shrinking"
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Verbose horse of TV
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River in a Best Picture title
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Conditional intro
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Pencil remnant
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Raver's genre, briefly
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WSJ Thursday, Aug 07, 2025 Long Gone
Daily Puzzle | By Simeon Seigel & Rich Proulx/Edited by Mike Shenk
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