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Four Words You *Can* Say on Television

◆◆ · By Puzzled · Published 2 months ago

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The meta answer is the evidence for the title's claim (i.e., the origin of the starred answers).
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  • La Fille en Rose 39:00 · 2 months ago
    Very fun! Some of those clues really took me a while to figure out XD
    • Shae 🤓12:02 · 2 months ago
      Funsies
      • George 13:31 · 2 months ago
        I got all the fake cursing pretty quickly, but "ironer" took me forever somehow!
        • emmie 🤓7:59 · 2 months ago
          Very good! (Great show, too!)
          • Brian Callahan 🤓7:43 · 2 months ago
            Didn't know PCA
            1DHays Code dept.[---]
            , but a strangely appropriate addition to this puzzle
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            Appropriate, and the transformational key to the starred clues
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            1. 1A
              Appropriate, and the transformational key to the starred clues
            2. 7A
              Highway congestion
            3. 10A
              Expert
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              With "amicus", a friend of the court
            5. 15A
              Guacamole inputs
            6. 17A
              Take it up ___
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              Molecular machines
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              "Oh, give me ___..."
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              Heat press operator
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              Rules, for short
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              44th president
            12. 27A
              Brian of rock
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              *Contemptible person (à la 65A
              65AOfficial who approved answers to the starred clues[------]
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              Casualty of 65A
              65AOfficial who approved answers to the starred clues[------]
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              Friedrich of the Austrian school of economics
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              Ex-senator Patrick
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              Target
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              Farted
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              Earth pigment
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              With "rear", a minor car accident
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              Not him
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              *Incredulous exclamation (à la 65A
              65AOfficial who approved answers to the starred clues[------]
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              From ___ Z
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              Shout
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              Fort holding gold reserves
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              Keep under the radar
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              Nonsense
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              Offer in sacrifice
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              Chafing-dish dish
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              Antibiotic targets
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              Confident poker phrase
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              Top performer
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              Pol. party of 25A
              25A44th president[------]
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              Official who approved answers to the starred clues
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              Hays Code dept.
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              Mass withdrawal from a cryptocurrency exchange, say
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              Gold, in Mexico
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              Toxic people, in texting, or certain flatbreads
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              Apiece
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              Son of Solomon and first ruler of the Kingdom of Judah
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              Plaintiff in case overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson
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              Humanoid robot in Ex Machina
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              Target of nationwide public shaming in 1998
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              Columbian writer and Nobel laureate García Márquez, familiarly
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              Japanese noodle
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              Learning by repetition
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              Lenin-founded country
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              *Obstruct lovemaking (à la 65A
              65AOfficial who approved answers to the starred clues[------]
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              Lots of
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              Declare anew
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              Add nutrients back in
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              Informal "I understand"
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              Temporarily unavailable, in online chats
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              *Disgusting place (à la 65A
              65AOfficial who approved answers to the starred clues[------]
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              Fair-hiring agcy.
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              White supremacist whose namesake is Forrest Gump
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              Orange puff snack
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              The other creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookie
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              Vietnamese New Year
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              Great
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              Long fish
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              Grp. vying for the Super Bowl
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              Not a hearer only
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              University in Washington, D.C.
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              Thompson of SNL
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              Own the ___ (culture war ambush)
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              "I ___ my wit's end!"
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              Gym org. with a religious mission
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              Tolkien trilogy, for short
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              Scrutinize, with "over"
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              Even score
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              Insult, slangily
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              GI show sponsor
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              Always, poetically
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