The "perfect" one is a 9-minute-long gesamtkunstwerk ending with an ode to Terry the Tangela
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Across
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The "perfect" one is a 9-minute-long gesamtkunstwerk ending with an ode to Terry the Tangela
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Theater kids hope they're headed for it
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Create cartoons
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Boba ingredient
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Personification of time, in Greek mythology
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Said with unvarying prosody
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Handy knit item?
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Saunters
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Maddie and ___ ("Girl in a Country Song" duo)
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Home to Espace Van Gogh
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One might be marked by a presidential inauguration or a Taylor Swift album release
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"Please, please let me do it!"
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Princess Peach Mario ___ Toadstool
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Follower of pony, pig, or rat
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Where you can probably find some extremely shiny and extremely cursed loot after fighting an evil cult in their temple
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Aesthetic that apparently involves sweater vests and cool libraries, not staying in a windowless lab for 12 hours and not seeing the sun
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"Princess Protection Program" or "Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire", e.g.
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Those prone to dote
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Would NOT shut up
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Real jerks
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"Supergirl" character often shipped with Kara
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"Princess Diaries" author Cabot
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Earns
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Save Ferris genre
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Words for making a match?
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Fancy cam
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"The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous ____" (Le Guin novel)
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Musical written by Elton John and Tim Rice
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More aggressive
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One who was into indie crosswords before it was cool
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Someone telling you you should totally buy that ridiculous t-shirt
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Multicourse meal
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Event where wearing a black tux is inappropriate
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Watches a watchdog, perhaps
Down
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Video game character whose wife is more popular than him
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Available for a job
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Garment that, when tied above the knee, tells the weird forest fairies that you are DTF, per "Tam Lin"
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Kappa, PogChamp, or NonbinaryPride
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Behaved like a stocking when faced with a toenail, light breeze, or literally any other outside force
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Subject of the plum pudding model
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Monetary unit used in 8 countries
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Best of the best
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"The White Lotus" character who said "These gays, they're trying to murder me"
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Units that probably require you to pay way too much money for way too little space (abbr.)
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Grande, e.g.
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"I said what I said"
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Old timey disease "cure" that ranks halfway between leeches and actual medicine in terms of effectiveness
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Portuguese wines
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Actress Ward
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They have notes
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Job sought by law students
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Like a desert (or like my skin in winter)
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Store described by Jonathan Coulton as "selling furniture for college kids and divorced men"
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"Baruch ata ___"
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Amounts on some bottles
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"Tar" actress Blanchett
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Point after deuce, in tennis
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On E, perhaps
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Substance for slugging
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Do wrong
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Go hard, as a song
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Cocktail responsible for me owning a bottle of orgeat
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Sibling who inherits in primogeniture
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They're bad looks
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Wok material, sometimes
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"[Redacted] is more heteronormative because it exhibits falsely a very feminine girl (Asami) being a handmaiden of ___ (who is treated as the male/masculine/feudal lord of the relationship)" (much memed Tumblr post that woefully misunderstood how lesbian relationships work)
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Machines that can make wine, beer, or pale ale (which somehow doesn't count as beer) in Stardew Valley
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Socal school
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Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity restaurant
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"Quand on est tellement triste on ___ les couchers de soleil" ("The Little Prince" line that translates to "When one is very sad, one loves sunsets")
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Justice depicted on a concerning number of prayer candles, because we can't just be normal about things