Random thoughts of a student about to go back to school
◆ · By pile · Published 2022-09-19T10:42:04.403Z
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Idea 1: "What if ___ answers my prayers and performs a miracle so that I can play video games all day without anybody noticing me?"
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- 1AIdea 1: "What if ___ answers my prayers and performs a miracle so that I can play video games all day without anybody noticing me?"
- 4AIdea 2: "What if I tell Mom that I have ___ the bus?"
- 10A___ mentality: Unwillingness to share information or knowledge with others
- 11AJerry's pal on "Seinfeld"
- 12A"This textbook should have a ___ edition. It'll take way too much time to go through the whole thing!"
- 13A"'___: The fraction of solar radiation that a surface reflects...' Why do I need to know this?"
- 14AGrade school quintet
- 16AWomb, euphemistically, during pregnancy
- 17AMao ___-tung
- 18AEmpty-___: They may happen if the goalie leaves his or her position
- 21AOne of The Jackson 5 and Latin music legend Puente
- 22AWas in charge of
- 25AIdea 3: "What if I 'lose' my school ___ and everything in it?"
- 28A___ bar: Usually located near the top of a window
- 29ASpa amenity with hot rocks
- 31ACaptivate
- 34ATesty mood
- 35AWheeled stretcher
- 36A"I wonder whether there will be bachelor___'s degrees for female students someday"
- 37AVeep Harris's job in 1998
- 38A[Continued from 21D] "If my wish as expressed in the circled words comes true, I will be happy ___ clam"
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- 1D"___ Goat-Boy" (John Barth's novel about a fictional university)
- 2DIt may also be a goldie
- 3DStella ___ cookies
- 4D___ culpa
- 5DIdea 4: "What if I pretend to be ___ and bedridden?"
- 6DClog cousins from which a word meaning deliberate destruction derives
- 7DTerrible memory, figuratively
- 8DExam, or as some crossword constructors call it, "term-___"
- 9DCole of "Black-ish" and others
- 10DA piece of numerical info shown in a bar chart
- 15D"Are there any good colleges in the UK? They call them ___, right?"
- 19D"Is this the letter H? No, I think it's that Greek letter"
- 20DPulls along
- 21D"Ideas 1 to 4 are just idle fantasies. In reality, I would never play ___ or make any excuses to skip school, but still..." [See 38A]
- 22D"If I take more ___-3 supplements, would I become better at math?"
- 23DSerena and ___: daughters of the main character in "King Richard"
- 24DProfessionals who may specialize in chem, geol, mech, civil or other disciplines
- 25DBaseball hits that do not go far
- 26DMaria's pal in "West Side Story"
- 27DPrefix with "house," "way," "post" or "keeper"
- 30DLike Captain Jack Sparrow, often
- 32D"No, I don't think I'll be needing this. This is an option mainly for H.S. dropouts"
- 33DExam, or as some schools call it, "End-of-Year Assessment," or ___ for short