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New York Times: Sunday, August 14, 2011
Below is the full solution for the Sunday, August 14, 2011 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Paula Gamache
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Animal with a huge yawn
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Garden support
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Garden support
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___ of roses
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___ of roses
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"Swans Reflecting Elephants" artist
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"Swans Reflecting Elephants" artist
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Formula One driver Prost
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Formula One driver Prost
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Bandleader Puente
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Bandleader Puente
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Religion founded in Iran
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Religion founded in Iran
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Dash
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Dash
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Reduces significantly
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Reduces significantly
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"Your Movie Sucks" writer
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"Your Movie Sucks" writer
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Billion: Prefix
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Billion: Prefix
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"A penny saved is ..."
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"A penny saved is ..."
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"___ me anything"
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"___ me anything"
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Winery wood
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Winery wood
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Needle case
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Needle case
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Like a black hole
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Like a black hole
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"Where there's a will, there's ..."
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"Where there's a will, there's ..."
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Mama Cass
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Mama Cass
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Partner of 74-Across
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Partner of 74-Across
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Spread out
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Spread out
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E-mail alternative
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Effrontery
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Effrontery
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Entertainment providers at a sports bar
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Entertainment providers at a sports bar
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Pop's ___ Tuesday
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Pop's ___ Tuesday
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Fill
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Fill
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Perfect service
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Perfect service
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Certain commando
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Certain commando
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"Where there's smoke, there's ..."
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"Where there's smoke, there's ..."
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Founder of United We Stand America
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Founder of United We Stand America
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Despicable
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Despicable
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John who searched for the Northwest Passage
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John who searched for the Northwest Passage
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Buddhist teaching
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Buddhist teaching
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"People who live in glass houses ..."
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"People who live in glass houses ..."
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Rhododendron cousin
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Rhododendron cousin
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Partner of 43-Across
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Partner of 43-Across
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Chinese "path"
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Chinese "path"
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Stinks to high heaven
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Stinks to high heaven
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"He who laughs last ..."
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"He who laughs last ..."
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Russian council
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Russian council
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Land in a river
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Land in a river
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Some are queens
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Some are queens
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Part of a cul-de-sac address, maybe: Abbr.
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Part of a cul-de-sac address, maybe: Abbr.
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Neighborhood east of SoHo
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Neighborhood east of SoHo
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"This ___ You're Talking To" (Trisha Yearwood song)
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"This ___ You're Talking To" (Trisha Yearwood song)
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"Riddle me, riddle me ___"
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"Riddle me, riddle me ___"
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Public respect
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Public respect
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Managed
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Managed
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2, 3, 4 or 6, for 12
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2, 3, 4 or 6, for 12
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"If at first you don't succeed ..."
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"If at first you don't succeed ..."
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Revenue line
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Revenue line
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It can make a 10 a 9
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It can make a 10 a 9
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Alley ___
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Alley ___
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Sante Fe-to-Denver dir.
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Sante Fe-to-Denver dir.
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"Don't bite the hand ..."
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"Don't bite the hand ..."
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Legend of the Himalayas
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Legend of the Himalayas
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Oldest von Trapp child in "The Sound of Music"
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Oldest von Trapp child in "The Sound of Music"
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Protein building blocks
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Protein building blocks
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Reposed
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Reposed
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Looped handles
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Looped handles
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Bone-dry
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Bone-dry
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Sacred city of Lamaism
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Sacred city of Lamaism
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Mrs. Garrett on "The Facts of Life"
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Mrs. Garrett on "The Facts of Life"
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Places to live in the sticks?
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Places to live in the sticks?
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Struck out
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Struck out
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Stupid, in Sonora
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Stupid, in Sonora
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Is sick with
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Is sick with
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Sick
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Sick
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Analgesic
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Analgesic
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Boulevard where Fox Studios and the Los Angeles Convention Center are located
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Boulevard where Fox Studios and the Los Angeles Convention Center are located
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"Almost finished!"
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"Almost finished!"
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Wasted
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Wasted
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Former Yankee Martinez
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Former Yankee Martinez
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Departing words?
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Departing words?
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Synthesizer designer Robert
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Synthesizer designer Robert
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Helped in a job
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Helped in a job
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Middle Eastern salad
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Middle Eastern salad
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Area of Venice with a famous bridge
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Area of Venice with a famous bridge
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It has banks in Switzerland
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It has banks in Switzerland
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Director Martin
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Director Martin
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Step
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Step
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It's out of this world
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It's out of this world
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Port on the Gulf of Guinea
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Port on the Gulf of Guinea
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Silly
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Silly
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Western terminus of I-90
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Western terminus of I-90
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___ Majesty
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___ Majesty
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Contraction with two apostrophes
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Contraction with two apostrophes
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Relationship disparity, perhaps
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Relationship disparity, perhaps
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Console
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Console
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Naught
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Naught
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Rapscallion
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Rapscallion
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New newt
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New newt
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Part of T.A.E.
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Part of T.A.E.
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Comet part
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Comet part
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"That's good enough"
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"That's good enough"
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C-worthy
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C-worthy
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Scintilla
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Scintilla
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TV warrior for good
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TV warrior for good
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It's north of Baja, informally
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Prime cut
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Prime cut
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A star may represent it
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A star may represent it
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___ blue
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___ blue
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College cheer
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College cheer
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Bog buildup
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Bog buildup
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"Star Trek" role
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"Star Trek" role
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Cooking pots
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Cooking pots
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Baylor's city
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Baylor's city
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Applied some powder to
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Applied some powder to
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Wasted
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Wasted
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Title girl in a 1964 Chuck Berry hit
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Title girl in a 1964 Chuck Berry hit
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Toe woe
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Toe woe
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Come from ___
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Come from ___
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Fanboy's reading
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Fanboy's reading
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Stud money
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Stud money
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Javanese or Malay
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Javanese or Malay
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Ban ___ (Kofi Annan's successor)
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Ban ___ (Kofi Annan's successor)
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Laurence who wrote "Tristram Shandy"
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Laurence who wrote "Tristram Shandy"
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"Good grief!"
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"Good grief!"
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Surly manner
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Surly manner
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Material for a suit?
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Material for a suit?
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Party of the underworld
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Party of the underworld
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___-di-dah
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___-di-dah
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Suffix with robot
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Suffix with robot
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Hebrew letter after koph
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Hebrew letter after koph
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Fights with
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Fights with
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Permits
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Permits
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It might be on the road
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It might be on the road
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One behind the lens
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One behind the lens
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Farm mate
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Farm mate
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Didn't suffer in silence
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Didn't suffer in silence
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Flair
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Flair
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Forward
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Forward
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Exempli gratia, e.g.
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Exempli gratia, e.g.
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Economist Greenspan
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Economist Greenspan
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It has a period of 2Ï€
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It has a period of 2Ï€
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No pressure
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No pressure
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Its highest point is Wheeler Peak: Abbr.
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Its highest point is Wheeler Peak: Abbr.
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Current carrier
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Current carrier
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Nymph spurned by Narcissus
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Nymph spurned by Narcissus
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August hrs.
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August hrs.
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___ Tomé
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___ Tomé
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