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New York Times: Sunday, December 23, 2012
Below is the full solution for the Sunday, December 23, 2012 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Joe DiPietro
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Sewer, at times
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Sewer, at times
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Dregs of society
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Dregs of society
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"I'm not doing so well"
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"I'm not doing so well"
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___ it up (dress flamboyantly)
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___ it up (dress flamboyantly)
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Sherpa's tool
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Sherpa's tool
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Kind of street
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Kind of street
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Accurse
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Accurse
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Grams
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Grams
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Drank quickly
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Drank quickly
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Allocated dollars for digs
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Allocated dollars for digs
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&&&
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&&&
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"___ time now"
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"___ time now"
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Smoker's convenience
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Smoker's convenience
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Toiling away
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Toiling away
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Santa's bootblack?
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Santa's bootblack?
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"___ ever!"
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"___ ever!"
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Paisley refusals
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Paisley refusals
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Gets up
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Gets up
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Density symbol
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Density symbol
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Anti-apartheid org.
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Anti-apartheid org.
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1970 hit for Neil Diamond
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1970 hit for Neil Diamond
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De novo
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De novo
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Lies in the hot sun
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Lies in the hot sun
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Shacks
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Shacks
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Marine rescue grp.
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Marine rescue grp.
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Fancified
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Fancified
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Really desire, with "over"
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Really desire, with "over"
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Precipitate
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Precipitate
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House of the speaker?
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House of the speaker?
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Writer
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Writer
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Big guns
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Big guns
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F = ma formulator
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F = ma formulator
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Very wide shoe spec
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Text changes
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Text changes
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Rocket center, once
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Rocket center, once
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___ admin
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___ admin
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"Not doable"
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"Not doable"
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Govt. money guarantor
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Govt. money guarantor
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Its capital is Sydney: Abbr.
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Its capital is Sydney: Abbr.
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"O Sole ___"
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"O Sole ___"
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Just ___ ... or "Just '___"
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Just ___ ... or "Just '___"
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Crones
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Crones
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From way back
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From way back
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It's needed for self-checkout
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It's needed for self-checkout
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Alternative to broadband
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Alternative to broadband
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Fixed rate
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Fixed rate
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Capital north of Cyprus
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Capital north of Cyprus
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Mat material
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Mat material
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Not yet out of the closet?
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Not yet out of the closet?
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Attach a handle to
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Preceded
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Preceded
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Give a rude awakening, say
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Give a rude awakening, say
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Flexible, electrically
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Flexible, electrically
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Derby features
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Derby features
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Turn blue, say
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Do wrong
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Do wrong
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Bubbling up
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Bubbling up
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Ruination
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Ruination
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Leonard Nimoy's "___ Not Spock"
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Leonard Nimoy's "___ Not Spock"
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"Fish Magic" painter
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"Fish Magic" painter
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Rapper who played Brother Sam on "Dexter"
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Rapper who played Brother Sam on "Dexter"
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1996 Olympian noted for performing on an injured ankle
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1996 Olympian noted for performing on an injured ankle
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Form letters?
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Form letters?
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"No ___" ("Don't ask me")
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"No ___" ("Don't ask me")
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Basically
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Basically
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Breaks one's back
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Breaks one's back
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Boston player, for short
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Boston player, for short
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Triple Crown winners must lead their league in these
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Triple Crown winners must lead their league in these
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Too-good-to-be-true offer, often
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Too-good-to-be-true offer, often
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Roman tragedy writer
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Roman tragedy writer
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Florida's Sanibel, e.g.
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Florida's Sanibel, e.g.
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Zebra feature
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Zebra feature
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They're run up
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They're run up
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Like some dough
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Like some dough
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Unhappy king of legend
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Prefix with -metrics
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Vegas casino
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Vegas casino
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Roseanne's husband on "Roseanne"
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Roseanne's husband on "Roseanne"
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Suit
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Suit
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Made de novo
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Made de novo
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Certain baby food
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Certain baby food
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So-called "Goddess of Pop"
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So-called "Goddess of Pop"
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Samovars
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Samovars
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It's part this, part that
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It's part this, part that
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Whom Shelley wept for
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Whom Shelley wept for
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"Water Music" composer
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"Water Music" composer
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Fr. title
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"Watermark" vocalist
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"Watermark" vocalist
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Really bugging
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Really bugging
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Woolly
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Woolly
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English royal
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English royal
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Covers up
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Covers up
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Street opening
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Street opening
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Sports announcer's scream
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Sports announcer's scream
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Lost-parcel inquiries
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Lost-parcel inquiries
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Newspaper section
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Newspaper section
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It's almost nothing
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It's almost nothing
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Prefix with -porosis
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Prefix with -porosis
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Took turns recklessly
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Took turns recklessly
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Things may be written in it
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Things may be written in it
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Cap'n's mate
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Cap'n's mate
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Kind of well
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Kind of well
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Piece for nine
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Piece for nine
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Hockey area in front of the crease
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Hockey area in front of the crease
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Seemingly forever
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Seemingly forever
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Long-running TV show featuring the Hortons and the Bradys
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Long-running TV show featuring the Hortons and the Bradys
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Fishing boats
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Fishing boats
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South American zoo animal
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Revolutionary 1960s Chinese youth
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Revolutionary 1960s Chinese youth
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Open ___
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Open ___
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They're often behind glass
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They're often behind glass
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Prompt
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Prompt
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Apocryphal
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Apocryphal
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ABC, for one
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ABC, for one
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Wall St. credential
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Wall St. credential
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Small boat made of wickerwork
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Small boat made of wickerwork
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"___ / Had 'em" (classic two-line poem about fleas)
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"___ / Had 'em" (classic two-line poem about fleas)
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Quibblers split them
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Quibblers split them
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The Sun Devils' sch.
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The Sun Devils' sch.
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Sci-fi or western
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Sci-fi or western
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Result of a bang-up job?
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Result of a bang-up job?
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One running
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One running
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Beta carotene and others
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Beta carotene and others
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Go out
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Go out
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Trick-winning attempt in bridge
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Trick-winning attempt in bridge
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___ beer
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___ beer
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Dwellings
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Dwellings
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TV announcer who broke the news of John Lennon's murder
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TV announcer who broke the news of John Lennon's murder
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Earn hand over fist
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Earn hand over fist
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Firenze friends
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Firenze friends
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Rumpled
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Rumpled
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Put up
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Put up
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Lamb specialty
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Lamb specialty
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Unwilling to budge
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Unwilling to budge
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Kick back
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Kick back
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People conquered by the Spanish
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People conquered by the Spanish
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Wound protector
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Wound protector
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Much merriment
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Much merriment
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Heat org.
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Heat org.
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Got ___ (did great)
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Got ___ (did great)
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