Okay... needed the nudges pounded over my head and need to backsolve the A. But what a clever and very hidden mechanism.
Snood 🤓3:35 · 2023-04-26T20:31:21.244Z
Magical! Thank you for sharing!
KayW 🤓8:10 · 2023-04-27T14:13:59.587Z
I needed remedial nudges to get this. A very clever metanism but SOOO tricky for me to see. So to answer your question: Yes. Yes, you do have to spell it out for me. Thanks, Al!
One example of things that are more informative when spelled out
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Orizzontali
1A
One example of things that are more informative when spelled out
9A
Horse's huff
15A
Paradiddle, for example
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Hamburger chain founder
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1970s
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She was in a "Rocky" relationship
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Beautiful Barbara from "I Dream of Jeannie" (and all us boys did)
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Joust, as with windmills
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Abbreviated road crossers
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Logic gate
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Michael Stipe band
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It's a gas!
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He derives pleasure from your pain
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Outdoes
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Et al.
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Legally put a halt to
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Pac-Man ghost
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Rich tapestry
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Skipjack, for one
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Dandruff shampoo target
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TL;DR
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Beeper
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Latin American carnival
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Vassal
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Hallux, for one
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Do sum thing?
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Navigator's need
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Mexican money
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Taj Mahal city
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Mountaintop coat
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7/8
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She can be a real mother
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Opioid
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Debunk
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Bridge bid
Verticali
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Darrin Stephens and Don Draper, for two
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Life motto
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More crass
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Harbinger of things to come
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Home of the Peacock
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Senate vote
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World descriptor (four times) in the only movie in which Spencer Tracy and Buddy Hackett co-starred
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"Keep it in!"
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He made Geppetto blubber
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Could not possibly be not true
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Short shorts, short a belt loop, sales tag marking
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Network Device Interface Specification that proves useful when interfacing network devices, and even more useful when trying to fill this portion of the grid
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A drink with no ice or mixers
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Urges
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How an office's local computers are connected
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Issa or Charlotte
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___ Krabappel, Bart Simpson's teacher
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Cutoff tops
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Caffeinated beverage
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Pop star who was with One Direction, but then went in another direction
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Barcelona soccer star Barjuán, who (to soccer fans, at least) merits one name status
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Poker variation
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Author Morrison
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Part of Scrooge McDuck's outfit (which is odd, because he doesn't wear shoes)
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Adorable affliction of Thindy... I mean Cindy Brady
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Ancient Peruvian
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Street slang for heroin... at least according to the oh-so-hip cops on Dragnet
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Not toooooo bad
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Get ready
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Ireland's national television and radio broadcaster
50D
Push away
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Stomach ailment
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Artoo, for one
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Prom
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Obey
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That super-healthy berry found as often in crossword puzzles as in smoothies
57D
Dino, Lassie and Ginger Cat
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"Point ___ return" (lyric -- but not the title -- from a Kansas song)