No. 1 : What the Fly Is To The Spider

◆ · By Mountainair Dispatch · Published 2024-08-05T17:36:35.769Z

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This is my first attempt at a crossword puzzle, so please feel free to tell me what I can improve and what you would want to see again (if anything).

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Played over Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life, the advice given by Ewan MacGregor in the opening scene of the 1996 black comedy “Trainspotting” (10)

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Played over Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life, the advice given by Ewan MacGregor in the opening scene of the 1996 black comedy “Trainspotting” (10)
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Max Von Sydow’s wares come with strings attached in this 1993 King adaptation: “_____ Things” (7 letters)
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The longest river in Italy (2 letters)
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Dickens’ Dodger, not Tommy Lasorda’s (6 letters)
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Eddie Rickenbacker’s title after WWI (3 letters)
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The CIA’s interrogation drug in MKUltra (3)
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How Rocky called for Adrian (2 letters)
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Sufjan Stevens sang that Abraham Lincoln was the “Great ____” (11)
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Knights say this. I don’t know why.
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In NYC it runs N to S
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Peter did this three times before the cock crowed
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In “South Park,” its business plan is: 1. Steal Underpants, 2. ?, 3. Profit, also the title, with “the,” of Pink Floyd’s song about Grimble Gromble

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