Bartender whose last name (Szyslak) was introduced in the sixth season simply to be a red herring.
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Across
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Bartender whose last name (Szyslak) was introduced in the sixth season simply to be a red herring.
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Very soft bath powder mineral
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Rift (kind of a mixture of skirmish and chasm?)
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People you know for access
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"The Wire" stick-up man who ominously whistles "The Farmer in the Dell"
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San Francisco mayor before Moscone
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"Why should the actions of birds, bees, and educated fleas influence our decisions" is probably the least desired response to one making this proposal
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Soft drywall mineral
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Very hard transparent crystalized carbon
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Simple and difficult to muggles
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House of ____; European dynasty
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Shocked inhalation
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Fail spectacularly
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Cover or engulf (underly so and its pretty unimpressive)
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What makes a hotspot hot
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Branding icon
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November gemstone usually yellow or blue but colorless in its pure state
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Gemstone that is red like ruby but not quite as hard
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Yellowfin
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Nozzles for blasting air when doing 18D
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"___ be an honor"
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Watch-crystal mineral
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Archaic second person singular present (non-auxiliary) of "to perform an action"; or The first crosser of Octave Ave. (south of Ray, Me, Far, Sew, Law, and Tea streets)?
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Compulsion
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An egg during 43D
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Tittle's Spanish relative
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Emotionally distant
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They are busy right before the 64D of April
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Boxer Spinks
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Cont. n. of Afr.
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Manicurist's opus
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Mineral often used in paints for its brilliant blue property
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Aluminium tectosilicate rock that "cleaves easily into flakes"
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Beginning
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Comic Johnson
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Drink suffix
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Copper tin alloy (that's associated with third place in a couple of ways)
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Well-known English ale that can be used in a meta with absolutely no ambiguity
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Digit
Down
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Woe resulting from a dank shower
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Sorta unitary
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Property and possessions
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Heading for tasks not yet addressed or completed
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In the company of
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Put aside for future use
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Bygone monitor type
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Long narrative
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Orange Pac-Man ghost
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With it
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Apples run on it
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In "Taxicab Conversations" he admits that he hates disco ("It's just getting harder, you know")
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"O Superman O Judge O ___ and Dad ... 'Cause when love is gone, There's always justice, And when justice is gone, There's always force, And when force is gone, There's always ___ , Hi, ___"
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Refine ore with heat (you can blast air in with nozzles like those of 42A)
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Blocking numbers
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Evaluated as per overall magnitude
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How many times can I get away with the "MacGrawful actress" clue? Well, just this once more
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Collette of "Muriel's Wedding"
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"____ misty just holding your hand"
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Informed
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Suffragette Lucretia who attended the Seneca Falls Convention six years after apple magnate Samuel R (no relation) founded his Cider and Vinegar company in near-by Bouckville
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"Ah, that makes sense"
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"The Godfather" author
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Hey, you...
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Danish-Norwegian "Barbie Girl" band
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Throw with force
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He insinuated Desdemona was being unfaithful to Othello (tragically, Bianca was actually Cassio's lover)
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What every guy thinks about several times daily apparently (or so yesterday's Internet trends would have us believe)
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Automobile company from 1905 to 1975
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Cash drawers
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Might as well stand for Very Curious Relic (I still have one hooked up.... what? ... I'm not going to just throw away my tapes)
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Eagerly go for (as an oppurtunity)
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Mahi-mahi; dolphin fish; constellation in the Southern Hemisphere sometimes depicted as a swordfish
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Main course
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Municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul (where people are apparently really happy)
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Seasons
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"The best of the alternative press"
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Fortnight after Kalends in 43D
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Pen mate
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Hockey legend you should not try to refine by 18D ing
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Short blurb to sum up a life
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Compact region at the center (the nucleus, as it were) of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy (because its active)
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Totes wonderful!
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Cindy Heisler 1s · 7 days ago
Fun and perhaps the only Woozy meta I have ever solved! Thanks.