really really fun clues... i like DOOMED a lot - i can relate since i procrastinate so much... i keep getting distracted with puzzles instead of doing work... GLAND and SCENTS made me chuckle too
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Orizzontali
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With 68-Across, The Freelance Police (or the names of the two people who worked on cluing this puzzle (hope you payed attention to the puzzle note (don't check it again that's cheating (or do i'm not your mother))))
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One who can't make choices for themself?
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Art ___
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Programmer Lovelace
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From the mouth
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Russian range
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Smoke
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Talk down upon
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Phone part (i would specify that it's not a cell phone but i don't want to come off like "ooh telephones are old timey" because all of you actual adults would hate me)
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Tended to crops
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TV channel that airs The Movies
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Swedish hyperpop singer whose birth name is Benjamin Reichwald
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Miscellaneous
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It can come before or after R or X
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Kick out
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"Deadname" was added to it in June 2021
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Kids' Choice Awards substance
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Length of time that has millions of 41-Acrosses in it
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Freud's fuck-up
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Innocent
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Get rid of a check, say
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See 33-Across
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___ like milk
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Country whose full name consists of alternating consonants and vowels
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Type of acid
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Show on which Elon Musk played Wario and went to court
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Idea identifier
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Like many a bitch on Tik Tok
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Classical creator
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Actress Rachel who played Debbie Downer on 45-Across
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Nothing alternative
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Narrow path
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Mort de ___ (French translation of 62-Across)
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"The Illuminati ___" (perspective of conspiracy theorists)
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SMS snicker
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Band kid option
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Fork over
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DEAR time class
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Wait, like a patent
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"You're not making ___!" (Exclamation yelled at a lackadaisical perfumery employee?)
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See 1-Across
Verticali
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Borat actor
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"See ya!" in Spain
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D&D warlocks
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Hope who died at 100
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Builds a building (stop laughing)
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Stronger Than You singer (call that shit ROCK music :D anyone anyone no ok fine)
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Secretive body part?
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Side account
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Pastrami companion
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Doubloon
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Wear away
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Considered a matter to be important
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Ren faire word
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Like a student who has an essay due tomorrow and one paragraph done
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Scottish boy
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___ the day
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What doesn't drop anymore when you mine iron or gold, as of the newest Minecraft update
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Healthy place to 54-Down
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Drag around
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Anger
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Middle word of a well-known palindrome
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Like a flag, most often
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Flower necklace
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Actor McKellen w- y'know what no i can just say that he's frickin' Gandalf like dude come on he's Gandalf man
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Expert
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They can come in Harvest Cheddar or Chili Lime
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9000 of 2001
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Specific peak
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Rottweiler command
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Anne, Martyr of the English Reformation
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Part of many German words
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It can often be a hefty amount of money
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Killer of Alexander
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Trusty horse
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Puerco, for example
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Place to ditch a witch
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If biplanes are a thing, then you can call this a gay plane