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It's used for text alignment

Get good

Like the answer to every clue, probably

It may turn on while being read

With "known", a code-breaking strategy

It provides guidelines for stuff like structural integrity and fire prevention, for short (anagram of a brand of pens)

Cookie-cutter

Luau dish

Tolkien creatures (but spelled in a slightly different way that Tolkien himself adopted after Lord of the Rings)

Kidney-related adjective

Ok look, you do get some kind of test acronym when you Google this, but it's a waste of both my time and yours to clue it like that. So, let's just pretend I clued this properly and give you an additional clue: With "-ndid", it means "magnificient"

John ___ (Explorer of North America who is known for discovering Newfoundland)

.x3+-x3+.x3

Glows

Ends of batteries (the ones that are popular in crosswords)

≤

Pokemon ___

Playing the brass woodwind for the band, perhaps

Dull finishes

Some college usernames

It hurts (slightly archaic) (anagram of REACH)

It has eau

"How do I fire this torpedo?" "You need to ___ first." (3, 2)

Marsh lifeform

A really archaic word which is a synonym of "hexed". Since this word sucks here's an additional hint: It can be found in "Incurs torment".

Something a pirate might say (cryptogram of XXXY)

Title for my AP Spanish teacher

Hosted

Response to finding out that my friend ****** a *** and ******* *** **** and then **** *** *** in *** *****

Landmark internet catastrophe

I was going to write a funny clue here but now it is no longer funny or true. Yikes. Oh this word ends in E btw

Like this extremely meta, self-referential, and arguably overly verbose clue, which in fact, in some sense, explicitly gave away the answer as an explicit crossword clue anyhow, thus rendering most of this fluff completely unnecessary, and yet, at the same time, justifying its enormous length with humor and quirky style

Swimmer with a large tusk

The ___ (Family music group consisting of Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, and Donny)

Pearls found under the tea?

High fibre cereal product

Play ground?

___-Hub (Major contributor to academic research)

Tim ___ Test (Internet challenge that supposedly nobody has finished)

One who chooses (anagram of TROPE)

Genus of fish that you probably never heard of (found in "Timelapse nest")

Fishes that sell for 500 bells in Animal Crossing (they're real fishes too)

Track in the shape of a certain vowel letter, used for some shower curtains

Back in college a friend decided to take a course with them called "Military Ethics" or something like that, for short

Japanese telecommunications holding company, for short (anagrams to an explosive)

4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + 4/9 - 4/11 is a pretty bad one

Caramel-colored sodas

Most tasting like the barrel it was stored in, as wine

___ gas (Resource that powers the ion engine in Kerbal Space Program)

Very old (2, 5)

Sixth largest island in the world

go:ir::have:?

Confused

Cards that add more storage, for short

First female Phantom Thief (I promise this is a very normal name)

He portrayed Cyclops in X-Men films (anagram of REMANDS)

Another name for the Barbados cherry

Copy

Home's home

Pull them to bend the rules

Slippery swimmer that likes to inhabit wet ground

Fill out a G. Forms for an event, perhaps

"There ___ wind like a bugle" (4, 1)

___ Pictures ("Production company" that made like 8 posters, plagiarized all its ideas, and then died without making a single film)

Planet where Luke really should have died after being upside-down for a long time

The ___ (Mobile escape game series)

The order in which the four special squares are to be read (starting from the rightmost one) for the final answer, for short

___-mo