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Making Plain

◆◆ · By LJ · Published 2022-01-11T14:17:25.025Z

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  • Mike D 13:32 · 2022-01-11T16:49:58.450Z
    Fun theme!
    • LJ constructor · 2022-01-11T18:43:54.825Z
      Thanks, Mike!
    • carter 25:03 · 2022-01-13T00:27:18.899Z
      arghhh i had the whole thing right except i put "lowlier ivy" instead of "low tier ivy" for 10D :'( great puzzle, love the difficulty
      • LJ constructor · 2022-01-13T15:37:05.966Z
        Damn, I never thought of that alternative! Fond of that clue as a low-tier Ivy alum myself. Glad you liked the puzzle, thanks Carter!
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      Sanctify
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      1. 1A
        Sanctify
      2. 6A
        Place for a preemie (abbrev.)
      3. 10A
        "1 ___ kgs", common Google search
      4. 14A
        Nintendo's fox-like "Evolution Pokémon"
      5. 15A
        Healy or Stubbs and others
      6. 16A
        North African port where Spain and Algeria are nearest
      7. 17A
        Grows a sweet crop?
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        Undertake, as war
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        Under the command of
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        ___ na nÓg, Irish name for the Celtic Otherworld
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        Organization with ties to the Dems' "Squad"
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        Dimwitted
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        "No prob."
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        Mont ___, Martinique's active volcano
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        Determines an asking price?
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        Down's opposite, to you and me
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        Polish dumpling
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        Curb
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        Where Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his 2003 gubernatorial candidacy
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        Something balmy and topical?
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        Fall back again, say
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        Sordid
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        Attacks
      24. 42A
        "___ Were a Boy" - Beyoncé
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        Ample, as a paycheck
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        "What you just said bends the truth"
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        Scaly marauder of prehist. times
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        Steals windows?
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        Meas. device in a cockpit
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        Solar or coal power (abbrev.)
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        Ending with fruit- or herb-
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        Welsh greeting
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        File compression formats opened by a ubiquitous trialware program
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        Enter
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        Become disencumbered, with "of"
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        Pressures
      3. 3D
        "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" musical
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        Jam ___, casually
      5. 5D
        Prophet
      6. 6D
        Spherical structures inside the cell's nucleus
      7. 7D
        Where to find fish too big for their pond?
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        "___ Good" by Janet Jackson
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        "___ lose", as annual leave
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        Like Dartmouth or Cornell, according to some
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        Cranial region
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        "That's true, officer"
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        Providence to Boston dir.
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        Swiss cheese containing blue fenugreek
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        Higher level H.S. subj.
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        Ethiopian royalty's Ras ___ Damtew
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        "Jesus ___", old gospel song
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        Jo-Wilfried of tennis
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        -genesis, step in mushroom reproduction
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        What Berliners might see on a night out, say
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        "___ don't come this Christmas" (Tyga lyric)
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        What one hopes to come across in the desert
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        Critical pieces missing from 17A, 29A, and 50A
      24. 36D
        "Variations on ___ Melody", from Appalachian Spring
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        Total
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        Nation of Kwame Nkrumah and Kofi Annan
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        "Alternatively,"
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        Guy on the Food Network
      29. 44D
        A Doll's House playwright
      30. 47D
        Faucet (abbrev.)
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        Eng. language variety in the works of Langston Hughes and Tupac Shakur
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        Chief prosecutors, for short
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