A guy named David MacKenzie had a project where he analyzed word frequency in TMBG lyrics - http://davidamackenzie.com/tmbg_lyrics/ - for it he scraped lyrics from TMBW.net and with a little bit of reformatting his data worked as a crossword word list!
fluffy 🤓3:23 · 2022-04-21T00:53:25.391Z
I only remembered like two of the words but thankfully the rest I could figure out from context
"I ____ my body / And I went on a journey / And I forgot where I ____ my body"
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Orizzontali
1A
"I ____ my body / And I went on a journey / And I forgot where I ____ my body"
5A
"We're in a road _____ to Berlin / Can't drive out the way we drove in"
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"I am a grocery bag / Fresh coffee and ______ / Pudding and soap"
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"If you're still there, I must declare / Au contraire, ___ très bon frère"
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"He said to think long term investment and / That all the others had forgiven themselves / He said the ___ reward would justify / The colossal mess they'd made of their lives"
9A
"Another life ______ me / And I'm leaving you today"
11A
"For every one with dollar _____ in his eyes / There must be hundreds that look at you as if you're some kind of / Rhythm section want ad"
12A
"The treasures that I ____ / Are rare and ancient things / Like Velociraptor's jaw / Or Archaeopteryx's wings"
Verticali
1D
"Clowns are from the circus / Barking comes from dogs / Eggs come from a chicken / And ___ cabins come from ___s / But where, where do they make balloons?"
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"Simultaneous ______ don't happen / We are isolated temporally"
3D
"They're digging through all of your _____ / Stealing back your best ideas"
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"Life is a ____ / But I confess / I like this mess I've made so far / Grade on a curve / And you'll observe / I'm right below the horizon"
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"Honey, I'm there when you need me / Please believe me, please believe me / I'll still be right where you left me / If you ______ to forget me"
6D
"David _____ came to town / Flying overhead"
7D
"The sun is a ____ of incandescent gas / A gigantic nuclear furnace"
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"I make the merchandise at Kinko's / They've got the paper and the ___ so / Everything looks real / It's a win-win deal"