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New York Times: Sunday, December 6, 2009
Below is the full solution for the Sunday, December 6, 2009 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Patrick Berry
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Like mountains and maps
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Like mountains and maps
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"The Lord of the Rings" dwarf
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Attack helicopter
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1930s heavyweight champ known as the Ambling Alp
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1930s heavyweight champ known as the Ambling Alp
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Choose not to cook, say
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Choose not to cook, say
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Plays at maximum volume
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Plays at maximum volume
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Deciding the best man is better, perhaps?
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Deciding the best man is better, perhaps?
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As yet unactualized
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As yet unactualized
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Where Caleb was sent as a spy
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Where Caleb was sent as a spy
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Seaside bird
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Seaside bird
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Memento of an old athletic injury?
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Memento of an old athletic injury?
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Suave competitor
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Suave competitor
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Many a shipment to Detroit
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Many a shipment to Detroit
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Air play?
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Air play?
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Med. care provider
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Med. care provider
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Nitpicks?
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Nitpicks?
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Uses as a source
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Uses as a source
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Like a foreboding sky
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What white flour lacks
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What white flour lacks
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West Bank grp.
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West Bank grp.
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Majestic
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Majestic
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Professorial material?
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Professorial material?
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Bottom line?
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Bottom line?
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Sorters' formations
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Sorters' formations
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Architect of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
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Architect of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
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Double or nothing, say?
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Double or nothing, say?
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Gambler's declaration
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Gambler's declaration
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Hymn starter
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Hymn starter
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Like many rugs
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Like many rugs
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Keats's "___ on Indolence"
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Keats's "___ on Indolence"
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Pickett's Charge participant
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Pickett's Charge participant
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Begging soldiers?
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Begging soldiers?
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Co. of which Howard Hughes became the principal shareholder in 1939
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Co. of which Howard Hughes became the principal shareholder in 1939
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___ rigueur (literally)
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___ rigueur (literally)
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Call before a football game
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Call before a football game
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Manchester moms
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Manchester moms
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Handle
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Handle
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Young scientists who are impossible to work with?
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Young scientists who are impossible to work with?
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Tips
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Tips
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View from the Quai d'Orsay
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View from the Quai d'Orsay
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Sir ___, nephew of King Arthur
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Sir ___, nephew of King Arthur
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X-ray view
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X-ray view
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Gave birth to a litter
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Gave birth to a litter
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Triumphant cry
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Triumphant cry
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Kick in the rear, maybe
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Kick in the rear, maybe
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Senate tie breaker
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Senate tie breaker
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Country whose name means "warrior king"
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Things heard after thumbs are hit with hammers?
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Things heard after thumbs are hit with hammers?
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Languish
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Languish
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Water carrier
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Water carrier
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Maker of "the plow that broke the Plains"
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Maker of "the plow that broke the Plains"
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Prostitute who protected Israelite spies, in Joshua
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Prostitute who protected Israelite spies, in Joshua
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Holder of pet electrons, protons and neutrons?
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Holder of pet electrons, protons and neutrons?
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Windup
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Windup
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Pro ___ (for one's country)
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Pro ___ (for one's country)
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Get by somehow
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Get by somehow
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Reductions in rank that aren't entirely bad?
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Reductions in rank that aren't entirely bad?
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Key holders
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Key holders
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Spectacular autumn trees
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Spectacular autumn trees
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Up
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Up
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Setting of Van Gogh's "Cafe Terrace at Night"
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Setting of Van Gogh's "Cafe Terrace at Night"
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Shy
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Shy
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Adjusts for daylight saving, e.g.
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Large hot spot
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Heavy lifters
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Heavy lifters
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Archival material
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They're set for drinking and smoking
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They're set for drinking and smoking
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John-Boy Walton's sister
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John-Boy Walton's sister
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Brown who wrote "The Lost Symbol"
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Brown who wrote "The Lost Symbol"
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Earn
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Earn
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Skater Midori
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Skater Midori
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Farmyard chorus
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Farmyard chorus
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Mattress problem
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Mattress problem
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"Come on in!"
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"Come on in!"
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School cards
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School cards
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Muesli ingredients
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Muesli ingredients
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"Mother Courage and Her Children" playwright
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"Mother Courage and Her Children" playwright
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Call again?
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Call again?
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Minute Maid Park players
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Minute Maid Park players
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Letters on old rubles
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Letters on old rubles
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Great white ___
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Great white ___
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Lunch orders that are typically sliced in half
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Lunch orders that are typically sliced in half
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Los Angeles museum, with "the"
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Los Angeles museum, with "the"
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Coll. dorm overseers
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Coll. dorm overseers
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Off
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Off
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Tolerant of other opinions
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Tolerant of other opinions
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It might have an extension: Abbr.
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It might have an extension: Abbr.
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James who wrote "A Million Little Pieces"
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James who wrote "A Million Little Pieces"
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Boyo
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Boyo
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Trace
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Trace
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Superheroes have them
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Superheroes have them
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Galaxy shape
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Galaxy shape
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Delay
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Delay
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"Arabian Nights" opener?
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"Arabian Nights" opener?
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Olympics ideal
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Olympics ideal
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Competitors of Wahoos and Tar Heels
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Competitors of Wahoos and Tar Heels
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It's most useful when it's cracked
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It's most useful when it's cracked
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Peggy Lee's signature song
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Peggy Lee's signature song
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Vanity case?
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Vanity case?
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Médoc, for one
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Médoc, for one
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Stock in trade
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Stock in trade
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Stem joints
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Stem joints
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Brought in
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Brought in
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Hall-of-Famers
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Hall-of-Famers
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Reluctant
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Reluctant
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South Los Angeles district
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South Los Angeles district
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1986 film featuring Chevy Chase as Dusty Bottoms
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1986 film featuring Chevy Chase as Dusty Bottoms
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Affluence
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Affluence
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Cream alternative
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Cream alternative
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___ Mawr College
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___ Mawr College
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Ankh's top
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Ankh's top
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Becomes layered while settling
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Becomes layered while settling
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Shaker's sound
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Shaker's sound
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"___ here!"
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"___ here!"
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"Away From ___" (Julie Christie film)
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"Away From ___" (Julie Christie film)
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Headwear also known as jipijapas
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Headwear also known as jipijapas
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Colorado's Mesa ___
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Colorado's Mesa ___
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Rocking chair storyteller
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Rocking chair storyteller
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Empty words
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Empty words
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Keyless
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Keyless
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Pres. title
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Pres. title
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"You ___ bother"
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"You ___ bother"
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Looks after
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Looks after
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Best guide around town, probably
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Best guide around town, probably
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Dewlap's place
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Dewlap's place
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They're all good
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They're all good
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Bullets, in Texas hold'em
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Bullets, in Texas hold'em
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Dishonorable
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Dishonorable
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Horsehair source
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"Intolerance" actress Lillian
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"Intolerance" actress Lillian
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Fair
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Fair
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Subway car feature
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Suffix with slogan
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France's Belle-ÃŽle-en-___
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France's Belle-ÃŽle-en-___
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