"A rock 'n' roll dance song about racial harmony," per Epic Records
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Orizzontali
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"A rock 'n' roll dance song about racial harmony," per Epic Records
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Hyped about
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Support beams
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Muscles worked out with diamond pushups and bar pushdowns, to gymnasts
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More like a squid, in a way
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Get older
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Start to many an AMA
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Groups who always horse around?
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French thing in the water that's a homophone of a different thing in the water
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Song by The Turtles that came out a year after a Beatles song of a similar name
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"F"
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The rest of the world calls General Gao's chicken General this, which I didn't know until solving crosswords and now I just feel isolated from everybody else
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"Still ___" (rap song with an iconic piano vamp)
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Thai noodle dish that translates to "fried with soy sauce" and not "Jeez, you live like this?"
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Error
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Nickname that drops a "demona"
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Glass of radio
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To be in Equatorial Guinea?
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Figures out
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Certain set of group games... or a hint to 4 squares on the left half of the grid, followed by a hint to 3 squares on the right half of the grid?
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Most like a squid, in a way
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Game akin to Apples to Apples, for short
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Rapper ___ Spice
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"It means a ___"
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Demand from a horny Frenchman, or, when tripled, a classic holiday song
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Place where they make maki
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Follower of "alley" or "and I"
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It's a real piece of work!
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Grp. who made the bases 3 inches bigger this year
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Work for
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Current zone in Massachusetts, for short
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Dog that's a letter swapulation away from a brand of marker
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Island that sounds like what you might say when you have fun surfing there
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"Disgustang!," old-style
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Brains
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"I ___ the sheet, the sheet I ___, upon the ___ted sheet I sit" (tongue twister)
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One from Wandsworth or Waltham Forest, maybe
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Court recess, perhaps?
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Coop
Verticali
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Formal, as an affair
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Mouthy?
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Word for frost that's not a rhyme of "rhyme" but rather a homophone which I would argue is even cooler
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Make-up of much of a New Mexico national park
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Doppio and lungo, for two
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___ vera
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Jazz musician Evans whose name rhymes with a different jazz musician Evans
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Wicca Phase Springs Eternal genre
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CVS competitor
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C's and F's, say
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Places called "theaters" (Abbr.)
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Goes feral
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Residual happiness
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Gets it
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Galena, e.g.
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Get ready for a long drive
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Offender
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Whirlpool
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Bottled water brand
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Samus of Metroid
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Blah
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"u up", e.g.
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"Dadgummit!"
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One from the only African country to never be colonized
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___2K (singer who's a part of Drain Gang)
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Bias
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Stand
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___ Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston hospital)
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Aspire maker
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Tar pit locale
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Word before billing or banana
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Sound of a 27-Down, perhaps
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Sink of Stranger Things
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Grammatically incorrect gushy remark about one's boyfriend, in memes
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Boom
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Nickname for a notable 2018 Travolta role
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Chocolate bar that once had the slogan "Hold on tight or I'll fly away!"
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Home to Connecticut Hall
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Like a Mint, one would assume
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Turlet
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Ridicule, with "at"
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___ Kids Go! (channel aimed toward elementary school kids)