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New York Times: Sunday, March 21, 2010
Below is the full solution for the Sunday, March 21, 2010 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Adam Fromm
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Colorful bird
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Colorful bird
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Beguiled, maybe
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Beguiled, maybe
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Seven-card melds
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Seven-card melds
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Shortly
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Shortly
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"All systems ___"
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"All systems ___"
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Zoo home for gibbons
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Zoo home for gibbons
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Goes from walk to trot and trot to gallop?
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Goes from walk to trot and trot to gallop?
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Lever in a trunk
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Lever in a trunk
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"You're on!"
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"You're on!"
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Flinch, say
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Flinch, say
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Tend to a hole
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Tend to a hole
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Visit
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Visit
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S-s-s-subject of a 1918 hit song
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S-s-s-subject of a 1918 hit song
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The "her" in the lyric "I met her in a club down in old Soho"
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The "her" in the lyric "I met her in a club down in old Soho"
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Change south of the border
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Change south of the border
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Teaches a ceramics class?
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Teaches a ceramics class?
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Outline clearly
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Outline clearly
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Greeting of respect
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Greeting of respect
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Pour on the love
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Pour on the love
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Where Haiku is
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Where Haiku is
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"Was ___ blame?"
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"Was ___ blame?"
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Word-processing acronym
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Word-processing acronym
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Dutch construction
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Dutch construction
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Not easily stirred
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Not easily stirred
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Carrier whose name means "skyward"
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Carrier whose name means "skyward"
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Frist's successor as Senate majority leader
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Frist's successor as Senate majority leader
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Vote in Versailles
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Vote in Versailles
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Bulwark
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Bulwark
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Chow
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Chow
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One of two by Liszt
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One of two by Liszt
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James who was C.I.A. director under Clinton
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James who was C.I.A. director under Clinton
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Monitors food orders to go?
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Monitors food orders to go?
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Piscivorous flier
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Piscivorous flier
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Election problem
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Election problem
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Founder of New York's Public Theater
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Founder of New York's Public Theater
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"Onward!," in Italy
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"Onward!," in Italy
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Narrator in Kerouac's "On the Road"
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Narrator in Kerouac's "On the Road"
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The blond Monkee
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The blond Monkee
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Potentially going into screen saver mode
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Potentially going into screen saver mode
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Less mellow
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Less mellow
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Albatross
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Albatross
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International food company based in Paris
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International food company based in Paris
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Ky. neighbor
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Ky. neighbor
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Unable to decide
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Unable to decide
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Doesn't quite go straight
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"The Five Orange Pips" sleuth
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"The Five Orange Pips" sleuth
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___ buco
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___ buco
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Illuminates a Halloween display?
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Illuminates a Halloween display?
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San Diego's region, for short
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San Diego's region, for short
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Melville work
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Melville work
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Book after Chronicles
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Book after Chronicles
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Group defeated in '65
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Group defeated in '65
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Eighty-sixes
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Eighty-sixes
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Bridge declaration
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Bridge declaration
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Wardrobes
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Wardrobes
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Ingredient in furniture polishes
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Ingredient in furniture polishes
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Puts hats on display?
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Puts hats on display?
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Music Appreciation 101, perhaps
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Music Appreciation 101, perhaps
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Calms
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Calms
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Pre-euro coin
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Pre-euro coin
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Big snafu
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Big snafu
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Any member of 4-Down
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Any member of 4-Down
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Insurance holder's burden
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Insurance holder's burden
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Not-quite-ankle-length skirts
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Make ___ of
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Make ___ of
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Free Tibet, e.g.
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Free Tibet, e.g.
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"Chiquitita" group
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"Chiquitita" group
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Natural
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Natural
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Santa's traditional home, to some
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Santa's traditional home, to some
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Procter & Gamble laundry brand
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Procter & Gamble laundry brand
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Crack, in a way
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Crack, in a way
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S-curve
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S-curve
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Dietary restriction
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Dietary restriction
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Ones promoting brand awareness?
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Ones promoting brand awareness?
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Bee: Prefix
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Bee: Prefix
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Brainiac's put-down
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Brainiac's put-down
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Oodles
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Oodles
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Big do
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Big do
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Prepares to play Scrabble?
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Prepares to play Scrabble?
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Japanese volcano
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Japanese volcano
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D.C. V.I.P.
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D.C. V.I.P.
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Casual top
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Casual top
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"The Open Window" writer
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"The Open Window" writer
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"M*A*S*H" prop
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"M*A*S*H" prop
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General on a menu
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General on a menu
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Coach Parseghian
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Coach Parseghian
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45-degree wedge
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45-degree wedge
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Substandard
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Substandard
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Closely follows secret banking information?
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Closely follows secret banking information?
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Like some emotions
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Like some emotions
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Funnywoman Sedaris
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Funnywoman Sedaris
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U.K. reference
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Solve, in British slang
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Solve, in British slang
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___' Pea
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___' Pea
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"The Clan of the Cave Bear" heroine
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"The Clan of the Cave Bear" heroine
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It includes a sect. of logic games
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It includes a sect. of logic games
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"Some Like ___"
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"Some Like ___"
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Common place for a pull
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Common place for a pull
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Whole
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Whole
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Gold-certified debut album of Debbie Harry
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Gold-certified debut album of Debbie Harry
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Makes drugs easier to swallow?
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Makes drugs easier to swallow?
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S.A.S.E., e.g.
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S.A.S.E., e.g.
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Nickname for Björn Borg
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Nickname for Björn Borg
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Big production company in 1950s-'60s TV
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Big production company in 1950s-'60s TV
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Hair care brand since 1931
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Hair care brand since 1931
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N.F.L. linemen: Abbr.
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N.F.L. linemen: Abbr.
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Knowledgeable on arcane details of a subject
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Knowledgeable on arcane details of a subject
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Maids a-milking in a Christmas song, e.g.
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Maids a-milking in a Christmas song, e.g.
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It borders the Atl.
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It borders the Atl.
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House add-ons
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House add-ons
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Be that as it may
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Be that as it may
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Manages to grab some bullfight attire?
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Manages to grab some bullfight attire?
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First of all?
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First of all?
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Bend for Baryshnikov
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Strokes
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Strokes
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Recording engineer, sometimes
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Recording engineer, sometimes
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___ admin
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___ admin
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Cry from one who just got the joke
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"Eldorado" poet
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"Eldorado" poet
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Kia model
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Kia model
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"Like, totally cool!"
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"Like, totally cool!"
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Michael Jackson film, with "The"
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Michael Jackson film, with "The"
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German street
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German street
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Mexican state south of Veracruz
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Mexican state south of Veracruz
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Jump #1 in a triple jump
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Parts of many celebrations
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Parts of many celebrations
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Haul
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Haul
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Fast times?
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Fast times?
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Skeevy sort
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Skeevy sort
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Sealy competitor
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Sealy competitor
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Evaluate
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Evaluate
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Houlihan player on TV
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Houlihan player on TV
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Only man to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar
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Only man to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar
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Swab
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Swab
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Its HQ are in Austria, which isn't a member
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Its HQ are in Austria, which isn't a member
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___ facto
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___ facto
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One of the Beverly Hillbillies
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One of the Beverly Hillbillies
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Lighter of the Olympic flame in Atlanta
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Lighter of the Olympic flame in Atlanta
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Constitution in D.C., e.g.
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Constitution in D.C., e.g.
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Hitch up with
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