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Horizontales
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It comes before the storm (the increasing winds, dark clouds, and animals acting strange are part of the storm)
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Spanish for grilled
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Don't pick it!
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"Guilty" or "not guilty"
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Banksy's Girl with Balloon, for example
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A small plate, in Spain
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Amazon or Olympic
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Literature color that (somewhat confusingly) doesn't include newspapers
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Sort
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Rang
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Hello, in Hubei
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Center of attention
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__-lacto vegetarian
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President Barbie portrayer Issa
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"Only one bed" or "the butler did it," for example
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Valuable find
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"Let me check"
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An intangible unit of wind
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Backup
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Where Paul flew to from Miami Beach, BOAC
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Rabbit breed whose name comes from the current capital of Turkey
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M&M color that was replaced with blue in 1995
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__ Dame
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Container that holds coffee (and passes the breakfast test)
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Slightly wiser counterpart to id
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Odds that you'll pull a diamond out of a deck of cards
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Units of lots
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When to pencil pistols into one's schedule
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Tennis champ Swiatek
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Pop on the coasts
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The dirt, the tea, the lowdown; or, a hint to four other answers in this puzzle
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They famously drown while fording the river on the Oregon Trail
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Deceive
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Oboe or saxophone
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Any will do, in a storm
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Make off with
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Goo
Verticales
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Act that can be performed by EMTs (or by a bystander until they get there)
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In the style of
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Necklace that can be tossed in the ocean
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Craze
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Crazy
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Big __
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Colombian corn cake
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Miso soup base
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Good Eats host Brown
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Famous dragon slayer of the 3rd cent.
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Person trying to beat the odds at the blackjack table
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Everyone's favorite citation style, in LIS
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The San Francisco __ Area, also home to San Jose
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The nation at war with Guilder in The Princess Bride
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An expensive piece of digital art that something something blockchain, and FTX and the SEC are involved somewhere (and that's all I care to write about it)
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Christmas bevvy
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Former basketball player Allen, aka "The Answer"
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One who practices self-sufficiency by growing their own food, sewing their own clothes, and maybe even making their own crossword puzzles
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The main substrate of a fruity Edible Arrangement
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Give birth in the middle of someone else's baby shower, for example
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Congeal
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"Gimme an A!" but for NATO
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Second-largest country in SA
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Scrub
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Golden State Warriors coach Steve, or ex-Victoria's Secret model Miranda (no relation)
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A pebble in your shoe, e.g.
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Make do
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Game whose "Draw 4" card is basically a declaration of war
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Refusals
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Finish
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Definitely does not succeed
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Fess up
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What /r/eyebleach is designed to help you do
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Home of the Egyptian Museum
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Kelly Clarkson was the first American one
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Soak (up)
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Palindromic kitchen brand
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"OMG, me too!" in text-speak
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"New" prefix
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Another name for a tarboosh, or the Moroccan city where the red dye comes from