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New York Times: Sunday, December 23, 2007
Below is the full solution for the Sunday, December 23, 2007 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Adam G. Perl
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Literary slips
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Lost
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Lost
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Grade school administration, maybe
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Grade school administration, maybe
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Joint
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Joint
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Former Acura model
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Former Acura model
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Fashion's Bartley
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Fashion's Bartley
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Start of a holiday verse
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Locks
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Locks
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10%
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10%
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"___ Gold" (1997 film)
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"___ Gold" (1997 film)
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Suffix with respond
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Way overdue to take off?
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Way overdue to take off?
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Former Japanese P.M. Shinzo ___
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Former Japanese P.M. Shinzo ___
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"Being and Nothingness" writer
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"Being and Nothingness" writer
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About
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About
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Area for a reupholsterer
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Area for a reupholsterer
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Comment made with a nod
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"___ alternative ..."
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"___ alternative ..."
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"Pay ___ mind"
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"Pay ___ mind"
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Insect repellent
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Verse, part 2
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Verse, part 2
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Author Deighton
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Author Deighton
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___ the mistletoe
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___ the mistletoe
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Audibly
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Audibly
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Expiate, with "for"
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Nicholas and others: Abbr.
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Ticks off
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Ticks off
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Church part
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Church part
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Intrinsically
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Intrinsically
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A.A.A. recommendations: Abbr.
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Sandwich shop orders
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Sandwich shop orders
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Lumber
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Lumber
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"The Sandbox" playwright
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"The Sandbox" playwright
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"What to do? What to do?" feeling
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"What to do? What to do?" feeling
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Brown
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Brown
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Young amphibian
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Young amphibian
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Flora and fauna
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Flora and fauna
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Some sorority sisters
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Some sorority sisters
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Implied
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Implied
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Christmas ___
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Christmas ___
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Verse, part 3
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Archer William
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Archer William
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Fannie ___ (investing options)
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Fannie ___ (investing options)
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Theodemocratic state
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Theodemocratic state
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Up ___ good
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Porters
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Porters
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Popular cuisine
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Popular cuisine
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Unemotional type, slangily
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Unemotional type, slangily
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Certain soldier
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"Little Miss Sunshine" co-star
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"Little Miss Sunshine" co-star
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Mentalist Geller
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Mentalist Geller
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Dangerous seepage
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Dangerous seepage
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Decorative gateway in Japan
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Decorative gateway in Japan
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Classic role played by Gérard Depardieu in "The Man in the Iron Mask"
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Classic role played by Gérard Depardieu in "The Man in the Iron Mask"
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End of the verse
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End of the verse
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Jack of "The Apartment"
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Jack of "The Apartment"
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Fruitcake and plum pudding, e.g.
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Tickles
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Tickles
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Source of "we three kings"
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Source of "we three kings"
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Puts a new bottom on
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Puts a new bottom on
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Blocks
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Blocks
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Once, old-style
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Where the bag of gifts is stowed on a sleigh
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Auberjonois of "The Christmas Star"
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Times in classifieds
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Promo, perhaps
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Promo, perhaps
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Fictional detective Lupin
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Fictional detective Lupin
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"Mamma ___!"
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"Mamma ___!"
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Home of Christmas Lake Village: Abbr.
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RR stop
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RR stop
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Of fast times?
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Of fast times?
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Discriminating sort, in a way
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Discriminating sort, in a way
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Heated
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Heated
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Word repeated in "Now ___ away! ___ away! ___ away ...!"
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Word repeated in "Now ___ away! ___ away! ___ away ...!"
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French pronoun
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French pronoun
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Line former
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Line former
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Green-blue
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Green-blue
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"Anything ___?"
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"Anything ___?"
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Blue-black berrylike fruit
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Whips
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Whips
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F.D.R.'s successor
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F.D.R.'s successor
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Longed (for)
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Longed (for)
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Studio sign
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Studio sign
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Uncle ___
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Uncle ___
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Univ. QB, perhaps
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Grammy and Emmy-winning soprano
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Grammy and Emmy-winning soprano
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Until now
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Until now
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Straps in a sleigh
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Straps in a sleigh
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Number of lords a-leaping
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Number of lords a-leaping
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Grate-ful?
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Grate-ful?
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Based on ___ story
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Based on ___ story
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Made a long story short?
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Made a long story short?
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Title in Toledo
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Title in Toledo
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Difficult period
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Difficult period
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Big range
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Big range
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Stravinsky and others
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Christmas ___
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Christmas ___
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Garfield's assassin
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Garfield's assassin
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Memo starter
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Memo starter
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Initiation rite
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Initiation rite
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Kind of artery
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Kind of artery
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French-named city on Galveston Bay
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French-named city on Galveston Bay
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Mideast desert
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Mideast desert
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Like the Christmas story, often
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Like the Christmas story, often
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What snow shovels may produce
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What snow shovels may produce
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Christmas cookie ingredient
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Christmas cookie ingredient
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Cub's place
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Cub's place
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Some
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Some
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Career soldier
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Career soldier
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Peter of "Everybody Loves Raymond"
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Peter of "Everybody Loves Raymond"
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Elbows
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Elbows
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It's a wrap
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It's a wrap
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___ salts
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___ salts
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Singer Apple
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Singer Apple
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Joint part
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Joint part
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Will likely
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Will likely
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"Born ___"
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"Born ___"
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"Walk Like ___"
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"Walk Like ___"
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Part of Captain Cook's explorations
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Part of Captain Cook's explorations
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Had
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Had
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Rafting area
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Rafting area
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Big pickle?
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Big pickle?
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Out-elbowed?
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Out-elbowed?
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Pressed
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Pressed
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Group
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Group
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Take for ___
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Take for ___
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News source, for short
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News source, for short
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Move, in Realtor-speak
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Swear
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Swear
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Moore of "G.I. Jane"
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Moore of "G.I. Jane"
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"Coffee, Tea ___?"
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"Coffee, Tea ___?"
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Court hearing
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Court hearing
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"Take ___!"
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"Take ___!"
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Author Shere
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Author Shere
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Lulu
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Lulu
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Lip
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Lip
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Big bang maker
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Big bang maker
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Word left off the end of the clue at 13-Down
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Word left off the end of the clue at 13-Down
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Poor grade
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Poor grade
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Satisfactory grade, in kindergarten
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