Word in the title of Episode VI and Episode VIII of the Star Wars films
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Orizzontali
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Word in the title of Episode VI and Episode VIII of the Star Wars films
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With 67-Across, cereal with a toucan mascot
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___ Lanka
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Sign of things to come
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Horizontal component of a structural I-beam
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Unnaturally pale
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Places where people are always putting things?
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"___ Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
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Lenient
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Unagi nigiri, at a Japanese restaurant
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Gingerly drink from (a bowl), like a kitten
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Stratego piece that ranks just above a miner but below a lieutenant: Abbr.
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Plus
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College grad
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Wolfed down
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Light beige
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Structure built under the queen's authority?
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Campfire residue
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___ center (building for community activities)
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Opus ___ (group depicted in "The Da Vinci Code")
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"The Joy Luck Club" novelist Tan
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GPS calculation
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"___ All That" (2021 remake of the 1999 film "She's All That")
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Religious headgear of Pastafarians (adherents of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster)
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Ending for "evil" or "wrong"
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Rub the wrong way
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Sale tag caveat
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World's most populous country according to the most recent 2023 UN projections
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Difficult item to steal from a hotel room
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Proficient
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Ascots and bow ties
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Stratego piece that ranks just above a captain but below a colonel: Abbr.
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Organization chronicled in "The Puzzle Palace": Abbr.
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Like a shoddy alibi, or an apt descriptor for six entries in this puzzle (can you find them all?)
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Norse goddess of healing
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___ Champaign (Shangela's drag queen name on "Community" and twin cities of the University of Illinois)
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Cheap thrill
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Kind of onion or cabbage
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See 5-Across
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Avant-garde
Verticali
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Nudge, as one's memory
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Genre for The All-American Rejects
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Tierra ___ Fuego
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Fill with rage
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Seasonal bug
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Particularly precious stone
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Square one
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Toy villain with an apt backwards name as he embodies the opposite of what LEGO represents (fun and imagination)
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"Westworld" actress Thompson
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Ingredient in a cordon bleu
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"Would you ___?" (conversational party game)
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Latin phrase for "where it originally was"
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Trickster animal that a kitsune is, in Japanese folklore
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Lucky animal that a maneki-neko is, in Japanese figurines
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Purposes
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Bert who portrayed the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz"
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___ vera (skin-soothing succulent)
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Bygone storage media once common in data processing applications which received notoriety in 2000 when their uneven use in Florida was alleged to have affected the outcome of the U.S. presidential election
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Showing no emotion
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Point of no return?
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Ten of them are needed for a first down: Abbr.
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Bundled, as hay
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"Atlas Shrugged" novelist Rand
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Upper limit, for short
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Journey
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Little Alex Horne, to Greg Davies in "Taskmaster": Abbr.
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The phantom in "The Phantom of the Opera"
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Share some common ground
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Groan-inducing pun like this one my father would tell me: "I'm on a seafood diet, I see food and I eat it"
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Thanksgiving tradition
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Baby shower gift
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Abysmal
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Italo ___ (Italian aviator whose surname is Rocky's surname (as played by Sylvester Stallone) with the last letter missing)
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What a dentist may request you to say
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Currency depicted here: €
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Designer's advanced degree, for short
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Add-___ (optional extras)
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It may be flipped
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Heart monitor readout, for short (which I just learned is the exact same thing as an EKG, the more commonly seen abbreviation from the German spelling "elektrokardiogramm")