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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!
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            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
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              Subway
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              Health class subj.
            17. 26A
              "___ pasa?"
            18. 28A
              Phishing target: Abbr.
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              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
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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?
            6. 6D
              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
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              Parent's sibling, for short
            15. 29D
              Way off
            16. 30D
              "Better Call ___"
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              Sky light?
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              4-Down minus dos
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              Hitter's stat
            20. 34D
              Christ the Redeemer locale
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              Dr. that specializes in sinuses
            22. 36D
              "The Evil Dead" protagonist
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