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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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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Idea 2: "What if I tell Mom that I have ___ the bus?"
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___ mentality: Unwillingness to share information or knowledge with others
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Jerry's pal on "Seinfeld"
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"This textbook should have a ___ edition. It'll take way too much time to go through the whole thing!"
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"'___: The fraction of solar radiation that a surface reflects...' Why do I need to know this?"
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Grade school quintet
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Womb, euphemistically, during pregnancy
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Mao ___-tung
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Empty-___: They may happen if the goalie leaves his or her position
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One of The Jackson 5 and Latin music legend Puente
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Was in charge of
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Idea 3: "What if I 'lose' my school ___ and everything in it?"
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___ bar: Usually located near the top of a window
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Spa amenity with hot rocks
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Captivate
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Testy mood
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Wheeled stretcher
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"I wonder whether there will be bachelor___'s degrees for female students someday"
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Veep Harris's job in 1998
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[Continued from 21D21D"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][------]] "If my wish as expressed in the circled words comes true, I will be happy ___ clam"
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"___ Goat-Boy" (John Barth's novel about a fictional university)
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It may also be a goldie
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Stella ___ cookies
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___ culpa
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Idea 4: "What if I pretend to be ___ and bedridden?"
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Clog cousins from which a word meaning deliberate destruction derives
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Terrible memory, figuratively
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Exam, or as some crossword constructors call it, "term-___"
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Cole of "Black-ish" and others
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A piece of numerical info shown in a bar chart
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"Are there any good colleges in the UK? They call them ___, right?"
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"Is this the letter H? No, I think it's that Greek letter"
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Pulls along
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"Ideas 1 to 4 are just idle fantasies. In reality, I would never play ___ or make any excuses to skip school, but still..." [See 38A38A[Continued from 21D] "If my wish as expressed in the circled words comes true, I will be happy ___ clam"[---]]
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"If I take more ___-3 supplements, would I become better at math?"
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Serena and ___: daughters of the main character in "King Richard"
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Professionals who may specialize in chem, geol, mech, civil or other disciplines
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Baseball hits that do not go far
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Maria's pal in "West Side Story"
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Prefix with "house," "way," "post" or "keeper"
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Like Captain Jack Sparrow, often
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"No, I don't think I'll be needing this. This is an option mainly for H.S. dropouts"
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Exam, or as some schools call it, "End-of-Year Assessment," or ___ for short