Huge thanks to Eden, Renee, Ori, and Joeadultman (and his stream at twitch.tv/joeadultman) for the test solve and advice! I hope you're as delightedly miserable solving this as I was clueing it <333. (Also I'm unemployed and struggling, so if this brings you joy feel free (and not obligated!) to tip, my venmo is also akatookey.)
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wheat flour necessary for most of your favorite Indian flatbreads
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wheat flour necessary for most of your favorite Indian flatbreads
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Detroit band that has long been prepared to counteract mass video surveillance (and sure, i had a phase where i liked them so that the cool boys in middle school would be my friend, but i maintain that Faygo and JNCOs still slap)
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play co-operative two-player games for hours on end in a discord call, say
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2021 Olivia Rodrigo album i sang along with in the car SO OFTEN despite relating to literally none of the teen angst hinted at by its title
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day that is often thirsty (abbr.)
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Gadsden would rather you didn't do this on him (but you should; also do it on all his friends)
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backtalk that authority figures don't seem to love no matter how clever and charming i am about it
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first name of artist who had a perfect album of f•ee•lings in 2015, no notes.
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"-ish"
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"guess i'm making my first crossword"
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i was so desperate for a pair of these in middle school that i tried to explain them to tailors in India on a family trip and ended up with fancy khakis with extra ass pockets on the knees
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manufacturer of watches ever since their founding in the Meiji era
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kind of tear that happens in churches
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Zlatan's former team on scoreboards
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hang, loosely
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workplace safety org. that i am deeply fond of despite it being part of the state
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with 39a, "crossword cluer" response?
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see 37a
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part of your face that "goes" when you and your friends are confronted with something nobody wants to do
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finish, as in wood
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Julia Roberts presumably does this before getting to the other two things on her list? i haven't seen the film
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i feel like this can't actually exist given my knack for spotting lesbians from a distance who turn out to be boys upon closer inspection
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ironic name of Buffy's vampire partner
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urgent moral imperative for americans on the way to a world without borders
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going days without seeing another person of color when i spent a summer in Portland, for me (and idk, maybe a broken mirror for you?)
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abbreviated summaries
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see 18d
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expectant Langston Hughes poem
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Coco's Rosita and Victoria, for example
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still
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my reaction to referencing the Gadsden flag in a clue
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ancient home movie archival tools
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you can avoid the normally high ones at my whole foods if you have big pockets and you're fast enough on foot (allegedly)
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Funky Homosapien rapper
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Palestinian scholar who was foundational to our understanding of cultural representations of the other (via "Orientalism")
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sentence opener preceding a huge list of identities when i tokenize myself as a gag
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Liam Neeson action flick (in a world without participles)
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2022 adventure game where you play "a small fox in a big world" (with a sword!)
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former NBA star Gilbert, who used to play in these
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the big surprise at the end of the gender reveal party i threw for myself in my 30s
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D&D dump stat when you don't want to make friends or influence people (abbr.)
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candy that we somehow went nuts for because of getting to shove it through a tube
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and so on and so on (abbr. abbr.)
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cosplay event for the girls, gays, and theys
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dynamic and postale preceder
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i could be convinced that technically Fievel's story isn't one
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classic ice cream filler?
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with 59a, two borders of a liberated Palestine
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acab, especially this judge, jury, and executioner of comics and film i was somehow a fan of in a past life
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remember when they were absolute heroes of the pandemic and had worker's rights briefly? support your local union <3
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"__ __....y'know?" (you can instead just ask us directly if we're gay, i promise)
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tree butter widely used as moisturizer
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store you might travel to in a reverse railcar?
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given a microphone, some confidence, and some friends, how one might handle All The Small Things
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in fiction, something said to stop a horse (as if that is a thing that is possible)
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V, who doesn't come for free (if you Wannabe her lover)
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i genuinely didn't realize this pokemon was just its reptilian inspiration spelled backwards until my 20s
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opposite of green peace?
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somewhat redundant descriptor i use to make it seem okay that i'm up at 5 am clueing this
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April, for some turtles
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marred, as love
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ends early
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vacuous spider boss of Bloodborne (not to be confused with former vacuous spider boss of Chicago and current ambassador to Japan?? he still does things????)
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evolution of crt displays (abbr.)
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Hawaiian inspiration for the pokemon Comfey (i didn't want to do multiple pokemon clues, but i thought about how much better your lives would be if you searched for images of Comfey and decided it was a sacrifice i was willing to make)
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this only counts as dupey of 54d if you admit gender is fake and bad so either way i win
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House's Foreman
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italian wine
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okay but how did we get sainted for inventing a walnut scrub that tears your actual face off
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garment that is far prettier than the average clue for it
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"I Started Making My Bed With Hospital Corners and Now I ___ Thousands in Medical Debt" (Reductress headline)