You can do better. And so can I. I did this one before but it didn't go over well. But I really liked the mechanism and I think I made it better this time. (Unless I made it too easy.)
(This time I didn't misspell "DIETY".)
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KayW solved 2023-02-10T00:42:02.294Z
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KayW 🤓7:48 · 2023-02-10T00:43:29.735Z
Well! Apparently I CAN'T do better... I am first? is that possible?
Very clever!! I had a sneaking suspicion about the answer and googling confirmed most of the also-rans. Was there another path to the answer that I leap-frogged over?
Fresh-water lake with surface area of 23,146 sq mi. (It is currently suffering an invasion of hyacinths)
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Orizzontali
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Fresh-water lake with surface area of 23,146 sq mi. (It is currently suffering an invasion of hyacinths)
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"A" in the NATO alphabet
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Late in payment
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Former Thailand
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What photos in ads seldom are
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Mountain 28,251 ft above sea level. (George Bell referred to it as "a savage mountain that tries to kill you")
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Mountain for which a soda company was named
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Grains that can be rolled or steel-cut
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Skin art, so to speak
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U.S. State with a population of 29,145,505. (Its state flower is the bluebonnet [and not the yellow rose])
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Large swallow
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"----- cavet" The dog bewares; see what I did there?
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Deity
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Furious
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Steel/Rock-type Pokémon introduced in Generation III. It looks like it ain't nothing but a hound dog to me, but what do I know?
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Marked for a purpose
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Greek letter that is 23rd. (In physics, commonly used to represent wave functions)
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Opposition position
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What "C" means in William Steig's "CDB"
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"Where the bee sucks, there suck I; --- cowslip's bell I lie; Gee, I'm the tiniest little guy"; Okay, it's late and I'm getting punchy
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Courteous
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What "Oh, roar a roar for Nora; Nora Alice in the night; For she has seen Aurora; Borealis burning bright; A furore for our Nora!; And applaud Aurora seen!; Where, throughout the Summer; has Our Borealis been" is an example of.
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Perfect and representative
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Carrier to Stockholm
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Goes on a tirade
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Caustic substances
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The last time one of my puzzles was featured in the New York Times
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--- de France; region centered in Paris
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He set foot on the moon at 03:15:16 (UTC) on July 21, 1969. (His first words were "Beautiful View"... we should have sent a poet....)
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One of these cold guys cometh, but two of them ... come? ..... sigh. Sometimes clever clues just don't work....
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"---- canem"; Beware of dog
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Mineral with a Mohs hardness of 9.25. (It was first discovered in Canyon Diablo, AZ, in 1893)
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Tied
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Basically an eggless quiche, but savory. And caramelized. Yum.
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Broad valley
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Ways out
Verticali
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Ways to go
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2.54 cm or so
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Prefix for down, as in ---clysm, or ---comb
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Place faith upon
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Gives a speach
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Take it easy
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---- in Ichthyosaur (spelling instructions)
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Musical compositions having a mixture of free recitative and metrical song
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Inquire
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Legal action
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Seek favor by servile flattery
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Wild way to run
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"Ctrl" singer; What? It's not my fault you old fogies haven't heard of her....
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Aliens
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Pigs
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Spies
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George's lyricist brother
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Maybe this island is named for wild boars, or maybe it's named for goats. It's hard to tell. Etymology can be ----cious
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Concerned, bothered (British slang)
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Volume
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Neglect
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Principle
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Red waxed cheeses
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"---, as I live, Devil is a cod"; strange theological belief that makes as much sense backwards as forward
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Set and harden
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Possible subject of 44D
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Shell out
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Aficionado's publication
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Immediate progenitors
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Wicker again
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Total
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Cap shade
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Chilled
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Magma when its above ground
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Where to see animals
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Soldiers not accounted for
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To be in Paris
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Makes after cost
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Chemical ending that lists to the right and slightly upward?