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  1. 1A
    What this entry is to all the other entries in the grid
  2. 4A
    At what time
  3. 6A
    One who propels a boat by rowing
  4. 8A
    Acerbic comment
  5. 12A
    Fecund and verdant (like an alcoholic?)
  6. 16A
    Basic textbook
  7. 18A
    "Let's do this thing!"
  8. 20A
    Adorable little furball that grows to be a homicidal bird killer
  9. 22A
    Hummable part of a symphony by Strauss
  10. 23A
    Creator of the Bendel Bonnet
  11. 25A
    Time of the darling buds in a Shakespeare sonnet
  12. 26A
    Wildly popular cartoon character whose image is on the latest fad in watches
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    Continental coinage
  14. 32A
    Last T in TNT
  15. 33A
    Wet weather
  16. 34A
    Appellation. (I hiked the Appellation Trail... every kept telling me their ____)
  17. 36A
    Palm trees with creeping roots. (I asked my gardener to rearrange my tree's branches so the would be hidden behind the bushes. He asked me if I didn't want to just trim the branches. I said I didn't want to create any extra work. He said it as just a easy to ___ __ to tuck.)
  18. 37A
    "Got a problem with that? Take it to the court."
  19. 38A
    Make like a dove
  20. 41A
    Carry (or the bag you carry it in)
  21. 43A
    Pocket bread
  22. 45A
    Acrimonies
  23. 47A
    Color of the light of a summer night in Spain
  24. 50A
    Painter of Rouen Cathedral, West Facade, Sunlight which can be seen in the National Gallery
  25. 51A
    At $300,000 per film, descriptive of Garbo's salary
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    Fantastic transparent sheet for food storage. And now that it's been made moisture-proof, DuPont's sales have tripled.
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    Reason a parent gives
  28. 58A
    Ballet skirt
  29. 59A
    Celebration
  30. 60A
    She comes out at a ball
  31. 61A
    Mechanical device that converts circular motion to linear motion. (If you attach an imaging device to it you'd have a ___ - ___ )
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    Three from Rome
  33. 64A
    After Jul and before 37D
  34. 65A
    Okay... so... this is a boys name... the 13,757th most popular in the United States, apparently... it's Hebrew in origin and means "collector"... um, there's a Netflix series I haven't watched about a divorced father becoming involved in organized crime.... and, let's see... the song about "Pack up your troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag"?... the guy who wrote it used it as a pseudonym and... I guess it's an anagram of... well, nothing really.... SAAF? Is that a word?
  35. 68A
    Hole in the ground
  36. 69A
    Give a glowing smile to
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    Aromatic (like Ouzo) herb
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    It sounds like all signs indicate this is a boring tool
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    Like the tread of the feet of Fred Astaire
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    "Long Day's Journey into _____"; O'Neill drama
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    "Arrangement in Grey and _____ No. 1", actual name of Whistler's Mama
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    Gourmet creamy cheese. Supplying it to French troops during the Great War has secured its position as haut-cuisine ever since.
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    Hebrew boys name meaning "Father of Nations" (1,461 most popular in the U.S.) [There, that should be a lot more straightforward than that stupid ASAF clue... oops, I just gave that one away....]
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    Bête _____ (Name of the 20A in this comic: https://gordocomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/79-03-25-1.jpg )
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    Layers
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    Library and publishers unique identifier
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    Morales of "La Bamba"
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    Good walks spoiled organization(s)
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    Government agcy. currently very concerned about measles (sigh there's no cure for stupidity, is there?)
  50. 92A
    Spre thse nd yu spil th chldrn
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    Outdoor gear store (that really does exist and is very common out here in my part of the world)
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    Opera highlight
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    Stephens's boss on "Bewitched"
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    Sure he killed the Minotaur and all, but he'd have gotten nowhere without Ariadne (jus' saying)
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    Being that is simply too, too, too diveen
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    "Birth of _____"; painting by Botticelli
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    Poetic style of Keats and Shelley
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    Ubiquitous malted chocolate milk mix whose toe-tapping jingle and "Little Orphan Annie" sponsorship has made it wildly successful
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    Distributed cards
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    Without an apostrophe its what one is inclined to do; with an apostrophe it's quite the opposite.
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    Islamic cheif
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    Guys
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    Smelling like a swamp
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    Canadian chocolate bars with little air bubbles
  65. 122A
    sigh.....
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    First name of actor in "The Horse's Mouth", "The Lavender Hill Mob", "Kind Hearts and Coronets", "Our Man in Havana", etc. etc. oh, and he was outright creepy in "Handful of Dust"
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    Ancient Italian region (mostly Tuscany; pre-dates Rome)
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    Misfortumes
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    They sail on the sleepy Zuider Zee
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    "Girl with a Pearl Earring" Old Dutch master
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    House of parliament on which served Lady Astor
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    Super trendy vegetable subject of the instant classic "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it" New Yorker cartoon
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    Multi-room accommodations
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    Fermented soybean
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    Pleasant to view
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    Trudge along
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    "I thought the work-week would never end!"
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    Adler who bested Sherlock
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    Fish with a legendarily poisonous liver
  80. 149A
    What a toy balloon is fated soon to do
Down
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    Too late for lunch and too early for a tea break so... nap time?
  2. 2D
    Poor Chicago. It lost its "Second City" status in 1984 when Los Angeles exceeded it in population and in 1998 this airport was no longer the busiest in the world. (It's a mere 7th now.)
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    Danger
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    Winsor McCay's little boy in Slumberland
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    Like a sunburned penguin all over
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    Lawyers eventually pass it, and Tennyson eventually crossed it
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    "___ Blue?"
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    Deep sleep state
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    Showy neck wrap .... unless it's a snake. Then it'd be a bad wrap.
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    Pleasant and amenable
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    Forks and spoons... and spatulas and knives ...
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    Eye affliction
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    Clothes line?
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    Dry bread
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    Sundial arm
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    "All the news that's fit to print" initially
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    Single serving coffee pod
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    "Take your time"
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    One of a marauding horde
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    Muse of lyric poetry
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    Not really a lunar cycle but close enough for this clue
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    Of the pelvis
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    18 letter country with alternating vowels and consonants but with all-vowel initials
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    One who says "Blursh! Meshaloob Blursh" when you are in their way and "Dag dag" when they are leaving (and have a gem over their head when they are being controlled)
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    Direction that is also a chemical suffix
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    Before the fall of France
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    After 64A and before Oct
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    Jam in
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    Maker of "Clear your cash" and "My Dogsled is a hybrid" nail polish
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    Stale
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    A question of betrayal
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    Hole in the ground
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    Pet lizard which a surprisingly high number of owners allow to sleep in their bed with them
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    Where to park
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    Cam output
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    Chant first documented in 1918 at a "Bethlehem Steel" plant but more commonly associated with the "Miracle on Ice"
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    Lauder
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    Sebastian who was bested by Holmes
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    What you can't do with nuclear arms according to old protest signs
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    Result following from a cause
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    Saying, often metaphorical
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    At no time
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    Film critic; 90D's partner
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    Early Beatles label
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    One of the musketeers (not that one... nor that one either.... oh, and not that fourth one either, I guess.... yes, that one)
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    "Go get 'em, Rover! Fix that typo!" "Wait, no! I didn't make that error!"
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    If she ____ _ silly question, she gets a silly answer
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    Baby bear
  49. 69D
    What the Bureau of Land Management and the Black Lives Matter movement have in common
  50. 70D
    Marie avait un petit ______. Sa toison était blanche comme neige. Et partout où Marie allait, l' ______ était sûr d'aller.
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    Beer-- but brewed in warmer conditions.
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    Palindromic doctors group
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    Nigerian currency
  54. 74D
    "The Wild Duck" playwright
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    Head honcho
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    Prohibit
  57. 78D
    Hermana del padre
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    Someone from Brighton by the looks of it
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    Curve that's impossible to draw on an 83D- Sketch
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    Sketch show that really didn't have all that much to do with Alfred E. Neuman's magazine
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    _____-Sketch (50s idea of a high-tech looking toy)
  62. 89D
    Breeder-brainwasher cabal to the misantrhopes
  63. 90D
    Film critic; Roger 56D's partner
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    Guiding strap for a horse
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    Dull color in a horse
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    Direction that is 90 degrees clock-wise from being a chemical suffix
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    Palindromic Gardener
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    Understand, as one has had similar experiences and can thus empathize
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    Entombed
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    ATM fig.
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    Shady tree
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    Fr. Holy woman
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    Decrees
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    Guided
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    Took an oath to never curse (and then broke it)
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    The absolute best cat in the history of the world! ... What? That's personal and subjective and no-one else would know that?... Well, they should! She was the BEST cat in the history of the world!.. Okay, okay... Famed WWII Riveter of poster and song.... Hmm, I guess I should say this is not a meta clue (In memoriam _____ (1996-2014) and Tommy (1996-2010). The two best cats in the history of the world. .... sorry, I needed a moment there.)
  77. 110D
    Crystal Meth Anonymous, Christian Motorists Association, Cleveland Museum of Art, Certified Management Accountant, and Country Music Awards. (It's a good thing three-letter-acronyms save us so much time with almost no possibility of miscommunication)
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    Singer Billie who is the youngest person all four main Grammy categories in the same year
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    Cruciverbalist's favorite toothbrush
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    Top; Bee's knees; totally the best
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    Band with the hit "125D Woman"
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    Beverage to accompany sympathy
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    In my opinion more appropriate beverages to accompany sympathy (although the red ones, Sir, are murder)
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    A camera that has a really, really, cool mechanism so that what you see in the viewfinder is the image of the photo
  85. 125D
    "____ Woman"; hit song for 118D
  86. 126D
    What one sees in the National Gallery (or the Louvre museum)
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    Help!
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    "How's it hangin'? Ya eating dinner?"
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    Rent out (such as a room)
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    "I don't freakin' believe it!" in texting
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    Engineering school in Troy, NY (where apparently you don't learn how to design role-playing games)
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    Fed up! .... get it? No? ... Oh, look it up. (I thought it was pretty funny....)
  93. 137D
    Year of the Consulship of Fabianus and Arrius (or III x LXVII)
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    United Nations sponsored disaster relief program (in French FCIU)
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    Outdo by a bit
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    Jargon
  97. 141D
    Freeze over
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