what a time to live in for crosswords where there are links in clues lmao
merlinnimue 12:59 · 2022-07-27T02:42:01.090Z
another wonderful puzzle, hope this simpleton didnt shit too much over it
13 minutes, not clean... guess i have a long way to go to reach the level of a top-15 boswords solver like someone i know
happy belated babka day, dan! and happy belated dan day, babka!
ButlerOnTheAir 🤓30:07 · 2023-05-12T00:30:31.315Z
Hi Dan and Babka, good puzzle. I like the ones Babka wrote. This is the first puzzle Jas solved on stream! She may have gotten one of the clues! Thanks as always, looking forward to getting to your next puzzle a year after it gets posted! (Though we'll try to get to it faster)
"Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?" "That's right, Matrix, you did!" "_____." - classic scene from Commando (1985)
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Horizontales
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"Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?" "That's right, Matrix, you did!" "_____." - classic scene from Commando (1985)
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Bon Iver song about a man-made channel used to carry water. No wait... maybe? Actually I'm not sure
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Recipients of "Con-grad-ulations" cards, maybe (abbr.)
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Lowest point, derived from the Arabic word for "opposite"
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Ancient region with its own order of architecture
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"___ Among The Stars" (children's picture book about the first African American woman to travel in space)
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Final tests for singing students
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Dogfish Head beer in 60, 90, and 120 Minute varieties
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Ring-tailed animal found in Madagascar
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Me at the bookstore determining whether something is fiction or nonfiction, using our store's three-letter category code
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Nail polish brand with the colors "The Future Is You," "Don't Wait. Create," and "Make Rainbows"
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Ghanaian capital home to the Makola Market
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Singer and activist Horne who guest starred on "Sesame Street" twice
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Soul band featuring Frankie Beverly
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"I love that calligraphy font, and I don't care who knows it!!"
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Coeur d'_____, federally recognized tribe in Idaho
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Dream vehicle?
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Sports broadcaster Gold-Onwude
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Takes over for, like a role
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[censored]
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Legendary Nintendo character
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Outdoor light option
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Opposite of a thinker, to some
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Narcissus' thoughts upon gazing into his own reflection (see Caravaggio painting here: https://tinyurl.com/mtd4vvae)
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Turn bad, like an apple or an internet troll who wants to ruin the endings of movies
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You'll have to find yours when you're lost
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Compass point
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WTF is this?? I always see this line next to the TSA Pre-Check line. Do they think they're better than me???
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Milk unit, with "lon"
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How a certain month is said to arrive, and a hint to 17-, 31-, and 47-Across
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Time zone for Washington, D.C.
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RHOA cast member Kenya
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The World's Oldest _____, claim to fame of Prescott, Arizona
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Barbacoa de ___
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Dipshit alien?
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Water, air, and food, for humans
Verticales
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Business magazine
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___-di-frickin-dah
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Puts on a pedestal, but, like, literally
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In 1996 a British journalist said this word was "now an oddity rarely used, an out-of-date reference" (yet it has appeared in the NYT crossword at least 152 times since then)
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It's interesting, to me, how people on reality shows who claim to want to avoid this always end up in the middle of it
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"It means a girl or a picture is amazing, strong, confident. Feel the surge of the fire burning inside my body and coming out to you." - Tyra Banks
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Delicious bagel topping
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"Un Hombre Busca A ___ Mujer" - Luis Miguel song
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Personal nickname for Mariah Carey, who was emancipated in 2005
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Sunrise direction
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Word found in a lot of dentistry practices
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Broccoli rabe, by another name
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Airport that is in neither of the cities it is named for, but actually its own city, which is named for it
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World's worst football holder?
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Was excellent, like a song
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U.S. Representative Ilhan (MN-05)
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____ verde, state tree of Arizona
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Type of feed that... look, I don't actually know. It's a web feed, it does something, people use it
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Doesn't feel so good
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Turned on, as location services
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Nickname for the British police force or weather office, with "The"
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Nicki Minaj song "____ in the Trap"
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Enchanted girl of book and film
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Currency used by Rui Hachimura, when he's in Japan at least
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Brooklyn basketball team with zero problems, nothing to worry about here
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Classic rock stations: "The music of Foghat must live forever! Get this song on the air now!!!"
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Word that can go with big, million-dollar, or bullshit
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"____ a bridge was to be seen" - Ted Leo
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Put this in your step when you're sagging
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Babka, for one
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Without problems in the world, at least for a little while
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Extracts metal from an ore
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Method of conveyance for Astronaut Jones
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Flower in Sudan
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get lost on wikipedia for five hours, maybe? maybe??
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Home of the National University of San Marcos, the oldest continually operating university in the Americas
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Name found in "hidden ostrich"
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Genus of succulents
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___ Feliz, neighborhood of ___ Angeles
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Red state?
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Dictionary whose first part was published in 1884
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What I hear when I ask a crowd "Would you like to hear me freestyle rap?"