The rather tasteless mascot suggestion made last week by the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony creative director to hire a popular plus-size comedienne to portray, after which he promptly resigned (good riddance!)
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Horizontales
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The rather tasteless mascot suggestion made last week by the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony creative director to hire a popular plus-size comedienne to portray, after which he promptly resigned (good riddance!)
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Texting format, for short
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When you are reading this
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Most easily accessible
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Where you might find a 16-Across
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Sash that can be tied in over 100 different ways
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"Did you hear about 1-Across? What's next: are we going to have Pumba hop in a pool and play _______ ?!"
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Preceder of -Aviv or -emundo
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Does the math, say
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Criterion
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"Can I get you some _____ coffee?"
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Able to be tanged, I guess? English is weird
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Unit of energy, or sound that someone makes when using a lot of it
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It is commonly said to be easy, but I know some dyslexics who would disagree
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"Transmetropolitan" creator Warren
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Substitution for 'eye' in the Weird Al Yankovic parody of "Eye of the Tiger"
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Getting attacked by a swarm of bees when you're 6 years old, to pick a totally arbitrary example that hasn't made me terrified of bees to an embarassing degree for a grown man; no, siree; not this guy
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A Prefect hitchhiking companion?
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"Did you hear about 1-Across? What's next: are we going to make Babe and Wilbur fight in ______ ?!"
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Oroku ______
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"Do you really ______ do crosswords EVERY DAY?!"
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First follower?
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My 3 Garfield pogs for for your Pikachu slammer, for example
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Michael Caine or Sean Connery
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Car maker whose logo does not, in fact, represent spinning propeller blades
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Like many prayer rugs
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Category in which you could find the titles, "I Want You to Make a Disgusted Face and Show Me Your Underwear," and, "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo"
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Locale for the first Olympics held in the United States
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For kids of all ______
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Madison or Washington, e.g.
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"Did you hear about 1-Across? What's next: are we going to see Miss Piggy swinging and flipping between the ______ ?!"
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Partner of feather
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Part of a monkey gland
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"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, That function is smothered in _______" -Macbeth, Act I, Scene 3
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Lou Gehrig's disease, briefly
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Abbr. for a Canadian consumption tax that you can also find in KAZAKHSTAN
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Contacted, in a 21st-century way
Verticales
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Method of walking for Jesus or a Jesus lizard
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Made-up adjective that could describe the president now, but maybe not last year
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Gain on a gridiron
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A certain eponym of Chinese cuisine, but before he became a general? (I know, I know--this was a tough spot to fill)
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[I curse you!]
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DSLR setting
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"Sorry, but my presence is required elsewhere," in a text
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Japanese name used as a catch-all term in manga to refer to any inappropriately young boy depicted in an sexually suggestive manner (and an anagram of OATHS)
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"Rochelle, Rochelle: A young girl's strange, erotic journey from ______ to Minsk" (fictional film in the 'Seinfeld' universe)
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______-worthy (worth using a certain discontinued birth control to sleep with, as deemed by Elaine on 'Seinfeld')
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Significant
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Name of a college in Ohio, or my yet-to-be written ode to Germany's capital
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"In my ______ dreams..."
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Winter clock setting for Portland, OR
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Prop for a live streamer, perhaps
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What Benjamin Bratt and Chris Pratt have in common?
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Welsh hill
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What a batter might produce?
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Prolific board game designer Rosenberg
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Forum managers, for short
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Not at all pro
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The '20' of d20
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Well-known contemporary explorer
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Leaf pores
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2016 Denis Villeneuve sci-fi film
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Alternatives to 31-Across in that same Weird Al Yankovic song
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Actress Breslin who made her debut at 5 years old in "Signs"
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Baptize, in a way
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"______ to Impwess": potential title of a toddler fashion blog?
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Just the right amount
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North African capital
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"Seriously, _____ you TIRED of doing crosswords all the time?!"