Nigerian artist and activist behind "Expensive S***"
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Horizontales
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Nigerian artist and activist behind "Expensive S***"
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"Collision Course" (2004), "SADEVILLAIN" (2016), and most recently "Everything Everything All at Once" (2022)
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"Thoughts arrive like butterflies"
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Some cool robot guys
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Currency of Second Life (as seen in James Ferraro's "Far Side Virtual")
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Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha-Cohen
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Table salt, to Jimmy Neutron (he didn't think to mention iodine or anticaking agents)
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Legião Urbana's second album (you can just cheat this one if you speak Portugese)
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Estonian word that means exactly what it sounds like it would mean
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Company, in America
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the first and last vowel on the top row of a QWERTY
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Auntie of pretzel fame
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Gigi of Cucumber Quest fame
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"In the style of"
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As in "___osh B'gosh". It also has a page on Wiktionary cuz it means "new" at the start of Ojibwe words, but that's not a very fair clue. Also fun fact the Ojibwe language is where Chief ____osh, namesake of the city ____osh in Wisconsin, which itself is the namesake and home of ____osh B'Gosh, gets his name (it means claw)
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American dancer referenced alongside his partner Ginger Rogers in an early version of Weezer's "Buddy Holly"
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National dish of both Lebanon and Syria, they're like meatballs
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Artist behind the "Whack Cal Zone Remix Version" of Cal Chuchesta's "Cocoa"
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Homophone for Lyman's dog
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Di's Dodi
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Hashimoto, who killed a guy that looks like The Rock and got defenestrated by a really fast treadmill
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Grenadian cricketer Fletcher, who didn't write "Miss Murder"
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DC anti-hero hired to catch The Road Runner (yes, that one)
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Interpreter in Danish, possibly one interpreting the works of JRR
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The 808, minus the 808 part
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Action in an annoyed manner, often referring to speech
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Hitchcock classic where there's a plane and that's about all I know about the movie
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MGK song with Lil Wayne (the title's said 8 times per chorus)
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A group of flamboyantly-dressed musicians in Japan. May or may not include "rockin' with these cosplay chicks" and being "so in demand"
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Association representing a whole lot of American energy guys (it's named after the elephant killing guy)
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The highest mountain in Algarve. Covered in grass, not gras
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"Another Green World" artist Brian
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As in Taiwanese rock band "___ Commune"
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Fresh food offered by Box in the 1976 film Logan's Run
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Sensei of Spinjitsu
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The Avalanches song that prominently samples "Why Can't I Get It Too" by Six Boys in Trouble
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Element no. 86
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Other
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Biblical source of the phrase "swords to ploughshares"
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Like every day in a seaside town he doesn't particularly like, for Morrissey
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サ
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JoJo's Stray Cat
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Not Louise
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The guy who works at Kwik-E-Mart
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Alarm and security company associated with a blue octagon
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Former Egyptian unit of weight
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Car goods shop with the slogan "____ know how"
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2013 Spike Jonze film starring Scarlett Johansson as a hot computer
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2010 R&B hit covered by Camilla the Chicken (from The Muppets)
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Super Mario obstacle replaced by the Roto-disc in Super Mario Bros. 3
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Like "__ __ now"
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Game piece where opposite sides add up to 7
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Legislators oversee certain preparations (3)
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A little mushy substance you put between your gums (it's not dip though)
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Black key material
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2020 Y2K and The Kid LAROI song
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The World's End from The World's End for example
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Turf
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Like sugar plants (not like Mr. Incredible)
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VTuber who's pretty cool. Not to be confused with Steel Panther?
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The sum of all numbers in a group divided by how many numbers are in that group
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Crib
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Chess tower
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Slang for that long yellow thingy full of radioactive goop
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"To my blind followers random hand emojis" - someone on Twitter
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Means "language" in the language of good
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Holiday celebrated in a galaxy far far away
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"What's that stand for? (____)" - Will Smith probably
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They're Like AJR but Manx and from the 70's (and the 60's)
Verticales
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Rock song where the lead singer becomes another (series of) brick(s) in the (miniature) wall
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2005 Interpol single with the weird puppet
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50's footballer Czesław
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Disney+ show set in the Star Wars universe
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German coffee brand infamous for its jumpscares
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Bone in your forearm
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Lis Sørensen song popularly covered by Natalie Imbruglia
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Victory!
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Location of monkey-fighting snakes
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Where the Wii's Photo Channel gets most of its photos
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Comet that visible every 75-79 years
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Nordic "oy vey"
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Prince Ergin of Lemuria
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Haitian marinade that's kind of like pesto in both name and ingredients
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What Rob Thomas wants to do in a 1997 hit of the same name (well, he will, well, he will)
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Animal that consumes abstract shapes, takes 90 degree turns, and grows after eating
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"Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet ____. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!" - Johnnie Cochran
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Greek cheese popular in gyros
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Kerstin of Rubinrot
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Dutch fast-food chain
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Death Grips song that prominently samples "The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records" by Múm
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Do you do in Early Modern English?
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Earthy building material used around the world, although a cop in Mario Is Missing says you won't find it in Nairobi
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Scotch footy in the 40's
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The Face Stealer in Avatar
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Childhood friend in Baldur's Gate. May or may not have a heap.
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Good rappers spit them, bad rappers are behind them
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As in "Ogre ____" by Queen, "Ogre ____" by Quest (named after the Queen song), or "The ____ on Ogre Street" from JoJo (also named after the Queen song)
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Tony Shalhoub's famous non-monastic detective
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Means "sky" in Japanese and "that dude with the big key" in all languages
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Void of vertical variability
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"____!" - The Annoying Orange
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Kaboom sticks
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Tyson on the Metal Gear soundtrack (or the funny Y symbol)
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2015 drama film that really shouldn't be confused with the Wiseau one
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Cartoon character who's been played by both Drake Bell and Alec Baldwin
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"____. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO ____ YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD ____ WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE ____ I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR YOU. ____. ____." - AM in "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"