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Rear Window (Themeless)

◆ · By Steve Johnson · Published 2024-12-16T13:04:35.260Z

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This one is a bit more challenging than my usual puzzles. Hope you enjoy!
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  • Daggerscar 🤓8:39 · 2024-12-16T15:50:05.494Z
    Terrific puzzle and references and cluing! Still puzzling over namesake clue tho
    • SaltySlice 16:30 · 2024-12-16T17:20:51.023Z
      As in, the time period when one would rear a child. Took me a while!
      • Steve Johnson constructor · 2024-12-16T17:44:59.570Z
        Thank you! For that clue, the thinking is: “Rear window” is meant to bring to mind the Hitchcock movie as a misdirect. The answer is a reference to child “rear”ing, with “window” being an interval of time. MATERNITYLEAVE being a window of time for child rearing.
      • Echser 15:50 · 2024-12-16T21:12:36.268Z
        Great puzzle, but the cluing in the ASSESS RAISE LINT OLE made me need to reveal a few letters. Good puzzle, but that section is a tight spot :)
        • JeffsPuzzles 🤓4:16 · 2024-12-17T00:29:51.761Z
          Beautifully clued! Love "REAR WINDOW"!
          • Katie 22:45 · 2024-12-17T02:45:33.903Z
            pog
            • heron 7:15 · 2024-12-17T05:07:50.753Z
              love all the long across answers, especially FIRSTTIMECALLER. had to do a lot a revealing with proper nouns crossing each other, but i learned a lot of new things in this crossword. love the surfing callback in ESPN and SEA--impressive find!
              • lisajay 🤓15:43 · 2024-12-18T14:39:54.823Z
                Nice one! Thanks
                • Lorraine 21:24 · 2024-12-19T22:40:04.813Z
                  Loved it!
                  • SJ Austin 🤓7:05 · 2024-12-20T00:40:01.867Z
                    Good stuff, I liked those longer horizontal stacks
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                    "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" singer Twain
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                      "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" singer Twain
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                      Knockout
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                      TikTok, e.g.
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                      Wiccans, for example
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                      Where you might find surfing when channel surfing
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                      Where you might find surfing
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                      Introduction to a new voice on the radio
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                      Rear window?
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                      Wise to
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                      QR code need
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                      Value
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                      ___ toast
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                      Target of a strike?
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                      Marching band flutes
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                      Dad ___
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                      It lines one's pocket
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                      Handle capably
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                      ___ check
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                      Flamenco shout
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                      Slapstick comedian Hill
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                      Tend to a shoe that has become a tripping hazard
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                      Pedi complements
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                      Facade
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                      Volcanic rocks
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                      ___ Piper
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                      Revlon lifters
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                      Reason to take notice
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                      His wife was a salty one
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                      "I'm busy then"
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                      Groupings of eight bits in computing
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                      "For All Mankind" score composer
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                      Cadbury treats
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                      Equilibrium
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                      "Women in Music Pt. III" trio
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                      Taj Mahal city
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                      Most vicious
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                      Fierce
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                      Team with the mascot Orbit
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                      Large Marge's charge
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                      African pest
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                      Turned a milk jug into a planter, for example
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                      23andMe sites
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                      Narnia lion
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                      Pet problem
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                      Zest maker
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                      Holiday ___
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                      "Girls" creator Dunham
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                      "Black Dog" singer Parks
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                      Skipper a boat
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                      "___ from Above" (synth-heavy Lady Gaga song)
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                      Mood revealers
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                      Wrapping up
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                      An alligator's can have a force of 2,000 pounds per square inch
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                      2023 award for "Dark Disabled Stories"
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                      A few bucks?
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                      Performed a solo act?
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                      "Kill Bill" plot line
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                      Skateboarding need
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                      Send to the House again
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                      Like a tomcat
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                      Some September births, astrologically
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                      "If ___ Street Could Talk" (James Baldwin novel)
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                      Deandre of the N.B.A.
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                      Quick squabble
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                      Dad joke staple
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                      Camp sights
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                      GPS suggestions
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                      Alien-seeking inst.
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                      Blog feed format, for short
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