City in California that apparently has Roman-catacombs-inspired subterranean passages and courtyards
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Horizontales
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City in California that apparently has Roman-catacombs-inspired subterranean passages and courtyards
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Pre-Germany state that didn't sound very German to me when I first learnt about it
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Having a great deal of self-esteem (Also, (kinda) the opposite of 16A)
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Line before 'short and stout' (Also, (kinda) the opposite of 14A)
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Inspector Gadget (cartoon version) uses this gadget that pops out of his hat to scan the surrounding area | Device that just kinda feels the waves y'know
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Hoops for your hips
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Negat and posit follower
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Types of tree that lines the street Freddy Kruger is on
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Foot alternative
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Turn away from the planned course
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Look
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Some pedants might make you use this word instead of lesser
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ish
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Houses that British people used to vacation to in Spain before Brexit started costing them a lot of money
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Nicotinic acid found in peas, almonds, and mushrooms (not the best fill, I know, sorry in advance or maybe it is if you care about vitamins and nutrition, in which case, you're welcome, nerd)
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Decay
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Packard partner
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Where oaks come from?
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What the plane does on the runway
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What poker players look for in each other
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The best Toyota car (this is not a sponsored clue)
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Timezone that I think is a remnant of imperial heritage that centers a colonizer
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What I say when I pull off the cloth during my magic trick to reveal a fully solved Rubik's cube when moments before there was an unsolved one
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What does a pun-loving sadist call the brands he puts on soothsayers?
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Remini from King of Queens that did a multi-season investigation of Scientology
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Whichever
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What I did most months when I was too broke to order food
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nuh-uh
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A lie I tell to seem less antisocial (Also, (kinda) opposite of 48a)
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The person with the slowest reflexes in musical chairs (Also, (kinda) opposite of 45a)
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This guy has a lot of isms
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Foods that accurately describe its taste
Verticales
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Doe or hen
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.txt file that no one ever really looks through
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You hear these in the song after Rihanna says the title of it from 2009 apparently Jay-Z was also on this track, but I had no idea
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Mix it up, in baking
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Something to volley past?
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Where most people are 5 minutes after when I was told to be at the party
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Tool for undressing fruit
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Touch up, as a road
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What the Aussies call SUVs or pickup trucks, apparently
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An abbreviation for where a train might arrive at
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Word that might be the origin of the scientific name for humans
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Past tense of the McDonald's tagline
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Effector of change
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What we might light to raise the smoke signals
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"He plays those well, but it's kinda weird that he carves narrow grooves into things with them."
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Flat tops, geographically
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Small potion bottles
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Young deer
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They can be birds, fruits or people
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Turk's partner from Scrubs (No, not JD)
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A gaming mod website | A meeting point for a lot of things
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Some rodents and people have them?
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I'd imagine that one of these would just be a lot of blue (ignoring all the lines and things to indicate currents and direction)
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What you might be tempted to say when your friend is reaping the consequences of something you warned them not to do
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Food safety gear that goes on heads
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Where to eat mixes
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Eye
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Understands
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Names that are also jars and jobs
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A type of underwear that I think looks uncomfortable to wear
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This can be used for stepping or skipping
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The reason for Royals being sung by every acapella group in 2013
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____ Flux, a movie that I watched as a teen. It had a guy with hands for feet in it.
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Leakes that was on Crime Scene Kitchen despite not having anything to do with cooking or investigation. She's also a Real Housewife of Atlanta.