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Twinkle Twinkle

◆◆ · By kieranjboyd · Published 2023-09-30T01:02:54.323Z

Constructor's Note
Heads up: the fill on this one isn't great, but I just couldn't let the idea go. That I could find this level of symmetry is a miracle.
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  • tofu 🤓12:19 · 2023-09-30T09:56:26.977Z
    :3
    • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓2:28 · 2023-10-01T14:29:47.524Z
      Very clever! (That's one way to ensure a pangram 😂) And you still made it quite smooth. Thanks for sharing!
      • dooiemus 🤓9:50 · 2023-10-05T17:18:06.934Z
        Neat! FWIW: The Dutch digraph IJ is sometimes regarded as a single letter.
        • kieranjboyd constructor · 2023-10-05T20:13:15.271Z
          Yeah, but beggars can't be choosers when the grid is this constrained. 😆 I did try for FIJI, but it wouldn't work, so I compromised. Thanks!
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        Airer of children's shows Down Under, whose logo used to be an apple, a bee, and a carrot [back when I was a young'un]
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        1. 1A
          Airer of children's shows Down Under, whose logo used to be an apple, a bee, and a carrot [back when I was a young'un]
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          Three-letter ISO code for the Shona language
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          Cryptography pro
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          AIDS cause
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          Kabul native, say
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          "Soooo … is that ___?"
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          Certain HDTVs
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          Rembrandt van ___, Dutch painter born far too early to contribute to 21D or fly 17A
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          Dutch airline with a crown in its logo
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          Communist symbol, often combined with the hammer and sickle
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          Good name for one who's praying?
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          Floor, in France
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          Like those up the creek, idiomatically?
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          Machine language instruction to do nothing
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          Emblematic abbreviation seen on ancient documents and seals for a phrase that translates to "The Roman Senate and People"
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          Silicon Valley exec
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          Tommy and Dil's dad on 'Rugrats'
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          "___ over, ___ under" (Winnie the Pooh's advice for tackling a conundrum)
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          "Certainement!"
        20. 37A
          German-made compact car, briefly
        21. 38A
          US Navy police (abbr.) [a cryptic wordplay example might be "headless snakes"]
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          Series of foldable Samsung phones that sound out of this world
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          Mrs Lovelace, computer ace
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          Apt letters in front of -it and -ore
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          Product in which you collect cardboard items for tabletop gaming (abbr.)
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          Dark powder used as eye make-up in Eastern countries
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          "Sounds about right to me"
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          Like this grid, vis-à-vis theme entries [apologies again for the fill]
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          ___ Lanka
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          Islamic devil
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          Toy series featuring plastic minifigs with shurikens
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          Certain door-to-door makeup salesperson
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          Alphabet trio [wait, we're doing Downs now?]
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          Cretan city where Minos' labyrinth was found
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          Jumped to one's feet
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          "You need all the help you can get - I have some friends. Laurens, Mulligan, ___ de Lafayette, okay, what else?" (lyrics from the 'Hamilton' musical)
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          Dutch art movement that translates to "The Style"
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          In mathematics, type of primality test based on the works of Édouard Lucas, Derrick Henry Lehmer, and Hans Riesel (abbr.)
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          Sound heard three times in "agoraphobia"
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          Identifier for the first subsection of a document, perhaps
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          Family-friendly program rating
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          Korean Train Express (abbr.)
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          Odd ending?
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          Looney Tunes beast's nickname
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