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The Powers That Be

■ · By girlcow · Published 2024-09-17T09:00:47.799Z

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  • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓2:20 · 2024-09-17T14:18:55.969Z
    Very nice puzzle, theme, and mechanism — loved it!
    • pufferfish 🤓5:38 · 2024-09-17T18:23:37.869Z
      fantastic puzzle!
      • kurtalert 🤓2:39 · 2024-09-17T20:32:59.564Z
        Fun- thanks girlcow!
        • vizzini455 🤓3:38 · 2024-09-18T11:51:42.951Z
          Clever, thank you!
          • Spencer Congdon 🤓9:35 · 2024-09-19T18:12:08.724Z
            Surprised I made it through this without a hint, which I think speaks highly of the balance of difficulty across the entire puzzle!
            • girlcow constructor · 2024-09-19T19:14:18.540Z
              Thank you!
            • axmszr 6:20 · 2024-09-20T18:29:03.961Z
              Agh, put YAP for 17D and didn't notice it was wrong. Fantastic grid!
              • Capn Rick 🤓3:23 · 2024-09-23T17:35:09.981Z
                Great job, girlcow!
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                1A
                Agcy. concerned with preventing child neglect
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                Across
                1. 1A
                  Agcy. concerned with preventing child neglect
                2. 4A
                  *With 23- and 24-Down, a measure of 31-Across punnily represented by this puzzle's shaded cells
                3. 7A
                  One with an eye on the TV?
                4. 10A
                  Low key?
                5. 11A
                  Gun, as an engine
                6. 12A
                  Openly gay
                7. 13A
                  Regret
                8. 14A
                  Part of a prof's address
                9. 15A
                  "Inside the Octagon" subj.
                10. 16A
                  Julia Louis-Dreyfus' eleven
                11. 18A
                  "The ___", 1999 remake starring Brendan Fraser
                12. 20A
                  1816 Jane Austen novel
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                  Draws
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                  Prompts a "Pee-ew!", perhaps
                15. 24A
                  Subway
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                  Health class subj.
                17. 26A
                  "___ pasa?"
                18. 28A
                  Phishing target: Abbr.
                19. 29A
                  Parent's siblings
                20. 31A
                  *Calculation in geometry class
                21. 37A
                  Lift a ban on
                22. 38A
                  Archaeological site
                23. 39A
                  Blanche's counterpart
                24. 40A
                  Laziness
                Down
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                  Professions
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                  Nosedive
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                  Like roses and wine glasses
                4. 4D
                  ___ leches cake
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                  Do the rite thing?
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                  Fertilized donation
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                  Goes all in
                8. 8D
                  Disappointments
                9. 9D
                  Doesn't shut down, as a computer
                10. 17D
                  Talk incessantly
                11. 19D
                  Great Basin native
                12. 23D
                  *See 4-Across
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                  *See 4-Across
                14. 27D
                  Parent's sibling, for short
                15. 29D
                  Way off
                16. 30D
                  "Better Call ___"
                17. 31D
                  Sky light?
                18. 32D
                  4-Down minus dos
                19. 33D
                  Hitter's stat
                20. 34D
                  Christ the Redeemer locale
                21. 35D
                  Dr. that specializes in sinuses
                22. 36D
                  "The Evil Dead" protagonist
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