there are some dead giveaway clues in this but you guys need a break after my last puz so think of it as a gift (also the cluing angles slap as usual so it's a willing trade to make) (tweaked or treated by acommonrose (also speaking of: this puzzle has nothing to do with halloween despite when it's coming out))
Plant that fires homing spikes in Plants vs. Zombies
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Orizzontali
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Plant that fires homing spikes in Plants vs. Zombies
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Brooks and Potts of film
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Eligible, bleakly
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"Hello! ___! Give me the number for 911!" (Homer Simpson quote)
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Character played by Miss Piggy in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
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Dickish
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Unlike my puzzles, most often
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Wit’s end?
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"Three stripes like ___ and I'm doing it for Jesus" (lyric from an Epic Rap Battle between Mother Teresa and Sigmund Freud)
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Catcher? (like a portmanteau of cat and watcher y'know)
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Ok so I was gonna have a stale cluing angle for this but then i realized that when you google "___ steal my sunshine" it comes up as "Steal My Sunshine (song by ___ and ___)" which makes no sense like wtf
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S, for NATO
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Pat, as one's speech
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Guy who was saved in a 2013 film (maybe he was, maybe not idk never watched it)
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Brian who composed the music for Spore
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Speaker of the house? (house like the music genre)
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People may go through them at the first day on the job
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Peculiar
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Absolutely GINORMOUS bra size like jesus CHRIST (wait what do you mean "coffee" (wait what do you mean "that's not how bra sizes work"))
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Prattle
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goodlong___ (shitpost YouTube channel run by Joel Haver and a couple of his friends)
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Prefix for "mobilership" in a DaThings YTP
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Certain amounts of 5-Down, in slang that I don't think anyone uses
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Get it together!
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Cricket, for one
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Get someone ready for the feathering, maybe
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Fear
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"We're being healthy by eating this tub of cheese curds! 'Cause to be thin you eat things that look like ___!" (Jim Gaffigan joke about cottage cheese being a health trend at one point)
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Mr. Oizo song that borrows its lyrics (and title, kinda) from Gonna Make You Sweat by C+C Music Factory
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Deadname of a certain advertising mascot (I realize that I shouldn't be putting someone's deadname in a puzzle, and I'm sorry)
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Floofy blanket
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Screwed up, as a parade
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Iowa city that's an anagram of an Arizona city
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"WE'RE SCREAMING AT YOU AS IF WE DON'T ALL KNOW YOU'LL COME OUT ONSTAGE AGAIN IN ABOUT 2 TO 3 MINUTES WOOOOO"
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They may be seen on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, in two ways (sorry about this i just prefer a single unchecked square to a dupe)
Verticali
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"___ and Aquarium" (They Might Be Giants song)
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Guy with a lot on his shoulders
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Quandary for a quadragenarian, maybe
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Sunlight Liver, Moonlight Lover, and Tulip Tiptoer of note
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See 47-Across
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He wasn't good enough for her, in song (non-stylized)
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Guy who shares my birthday, and, on Famousbirthdays.com, is listed third (after an Instagram star and a TikTok star), with "The"
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Pen cap?
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Pansy part
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___ Month (June)
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London borough whose street signs use "a slab serif Clarendon with large X height, pronounced ball terminals and short ascenders and descenders across the lowercase which looks more Old West than West London", per Jay Foreman
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Put on one's own Twitter page, for short
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Grand slammy Sammy
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Ok so i clued this as [Computer formatting abbreviation that should technically have "DF" in it if you think about what it stands for] once but apparently it can stand for TWO things so this only kinda worked sorry about that gang
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Corrigenda
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Long ___ (Antidisestablishmentarianism, for one?)
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Talent of YouTubers Sr Pelo and Jaiden___s
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Lady who may be on the prowl?
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"___ Proposal" (movie that i haven't watched but imma guess that some guy pops the question naked)
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Tom of NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
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Mortals' practice
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Acted angrily toward, facially
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Abbreviation also known as "also known as"
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"You may be something in the ___ / But between us? Who's the worse MC? You!" (lyric from an Epic Rap Battle between J. Robert Oppenheimer and Thanos)
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___ down (roast)
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"GARFIELD! are you /___ or /j"
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Oft-stuffed pepper
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Tum-tum boo-boo :(
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Leader of sorts
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Cowbell-centric affliction, in television
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Crood representation of family?
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Swag and pog
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Creator of the YouTube video "TheFatRat - Megalovania" that TheFatRat actually reuploaded on his own channel, for short
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"You ___ Pregnant" (Clown Core song that is great you should listen to it)
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Thurman whose first acting gig was as the English voice for Kushana in Studio Ghibli's "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind"