Elmo's puppy on "Sesame Street" (rejected names included Cha-Cha and Polka)
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Across
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Elmo's puppy on "Sesame Street" (rejected names included Cha-Cha and Polka)
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"The Critical Importance _____ World Fruit Bats for Healthy Ecosystems and Economies" (scientific article I found while looking for an interesting cluing angle for this entry)
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How poetry should be read, unless it's midnight and your spouse has an early morning
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Poet who was exiled from Florence in 1302 and pardoned in 2008
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Do the job of the higher-up of two car-jacking raccoons
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Scientifically, there's no difference between them and frogs... sorry
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Key that the United Methodist Hymnal has a bunch of late 19th-century hymns in, whereas many other hymnals put them much more sensibly in G
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Who's gonna love you more than I do, in a Band of Horses song
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Muscle subject to the quarter test, informally
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Offer the wall? (This is a terrible clue but it amuses me so I'm keeping it, sorry)