"If not ___, why ___ shaped?" - tweet from the National Park Service about meeting a bear
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Across
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"If not ___, why ___ shaped?" - tweet from the National Park Service about meeting a bear
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Solange, to Blue Ivy
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1000 megs
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Rooibos
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Someone who's too good for this crossword, probably
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Spoon drummer Jim (no relation to producer Brian)
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Like a play that goes on without an intermission
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Korean father
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Pull
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Alyssa Naeher's position
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(Tracy Chapman voice) "You are a fast shark"
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Backseat game
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Get into
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"Clear and Vivid" host Alan
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Word nearly impossible to clue without adding "Lingus"
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"The _____ Eye", 28-Down by Toni Morrison
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Proverbially busy insect
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Might as well jump (on a skateboard)!
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Mexican slang word meaning, among other things, "OK"
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Star of "Prey" who had a guest role on "Reservation Dogs" as the Native influencer Miss Ma8riarch ("the other spelling was taken")
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Do you hear that?
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Stuff in your house, if arranged artfully enough
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"___ the fields we go..."
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Main dish that sounds like it should be served first, but it usually isn't
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___ Han, nation in "Shadow and Bone" based on Mongolia and China
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Beloved publisher of women and nonbinary crossword constructors, for short
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Language that gave us the word "window"
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Channel with "30 for 30" documentaries
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Thick noodle
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"I only eat frozen food from ______ / cause I'm a boring basic ho" - lyrics from a TikTok video
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Luka Doncic, for one (Abbr.)
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"Tell Me Something Good" singer Chaka
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Los Angeles is the most populous one in the U.S.
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Post opposite
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Party that can be pronounced two different ways
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Talia Shire's role in "Rocky"
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Home of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium
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It's me! Caw! I'm a corvid, it's me!
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Fly so nice they named it twice! ...I'm being told that it's actually not so nice. ...And also that something being named twice actually has no relation to how nice it is. OK.
Down
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Kermit or his nephew Robin
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Seat of Washoe County
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"The very ___!"
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Fancier "and others"
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Totally makes out with
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Desert tree of the genus Phoenix
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"Right f-ing now," initially
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Take down a coat rack?
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"Easy peasy"
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IDK, more formally
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Feel out, as a situation (or perhaps a 28-Down??)
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Inuit word for a person
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Genre for Rare Essence and EU
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Lizards have a third one
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Weep for
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Ingredient not used during Passover
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Really humiliate
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Citrus that's also a color
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See 31-Across
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Uses an electric bike
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Aerodynamic, usually
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Towel fabric
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Word after "short" or "tall"
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Made a sketch, perhaps
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Company that went bankrupt in 2001 that everyone sure learned a lot of lessons from I bet