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New York Times: Sunday, July 26, 2020
Below is the full solution for the Sunday, July 26, 2020 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Trenton Charlson
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Miss
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Miss
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More than excited
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Grub for a grub
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Grub for a grub
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Elliptical
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Elliptical
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Where a phone might be tapped
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Where a phone might be tapped
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Last Oldsmobile model
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Last Oldsmobile model
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Site of the Bocca Nuova crater
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Site of the Bocca Nuova crater
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Regional flora and fauna
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Regional flora and fauna
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Facial feature of a Lego man?
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Facial feature of a Lego man?
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Sparkling Italian wine
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Sparkling Italian wine
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With 81-Across, flashy basketball play
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With 81-Across, flashy basketball play
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Completely remove
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Completely remove
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Blew off steam?
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"Hold your horses"
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"Hold your horses"
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Word before job or joke
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Word before job or joke
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Emcee during a power outage?
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Emcee during a power outage?
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Regulus is its brightest star
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Regulus is its brightest star
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Small change?
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Small change?
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Most eccentric
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Most eccentric
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Formerly
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Formerly
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What means most in the end?
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Some somber music
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Some somber music
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"So what?"
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"So what?"
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Tailor's measurement
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"The elite fighter pilots may skip the rest of the lecture"?
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"The elite fighter pilots may skip the rest of the lecture"?
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New Cub Scout
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New Cub Scout
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Hairy hunter of Genesis
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Hairy hunter of Genesis
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Looney Tunes devil, for short
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Looney Tunes devil, for short
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Hostile declaration
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Hostile declaration
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Decision
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Decision
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Expense for a political campaign
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Expense for a political campaign
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List of available courses
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List of available courses
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What the abscissa and ordinate are measured from
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Take in
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Take in
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Drive a getaway car through Australia's outback?
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Drive a getaway car through Australia's outback?
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Cousin ___ ("Jimmy Kimmel Live" regular)
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Cousin ___ ("Jimmy Kimmel Live" regular)
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Major account
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Major account
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Nickname of a 2010s pop idol, with "the"
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Nickname of a 2010s pop idol, with "the"
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Bird in Liberty Mutual commercials
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Workmates
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Workmates
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Answer
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Answer
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See 25-Across
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When Caesar is told to "Beware the ides of March"
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When Caesar is told to "Beware the ides of March"
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Give in
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Give in
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What you might do after the movie previews are finally over?
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What you might do after the movie previews are finally over?
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Yeshiva instructor
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Yeshiva instructor
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Civil War side: Abbr.
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Civil War side: Abbr.
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Group who ought to know better?
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Group who ought to know better?
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Rx prescribers
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Rx prescribers
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Pioneering programmer Lovelace
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Pioneering programmer Lovelace
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Fish whose name means "very strong" in Hawaiian
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Fish whose name means "very strong" in Hawaiian
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Put away
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Put away
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"The devil's lettuce"
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"The devil's lettuce"
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Where spaghetti and orzo rank in terms of their suitability for making necklaces?
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Where spaghetti and orzo rank in terms of their suitability for making necklaces?
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Resident of Japan's "second city"
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Resident of Japan's "second city"
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___ Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table
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___ Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table
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Martin ___, star of 1960s TV's "Route 66"
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Martin ___, star of 1960s TV's "Route 66"
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Opera singer Fleming
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Opera singer Fleming
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Play with, as a toy mouse
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Play with, as a toy mouse
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To boot
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To boot
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One who believes exclusively in a sea god?
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One who believes exclusively in a sea god?
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Political columnist Molly
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Political columnist Molly
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Noted Christian
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Noted Christian
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Role in the 2005 hit musical "Jersey Boys"
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Electric flux symbols
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Electric flux symbols
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"Pretty please?"
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"Pretty please?"
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Like child's play
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Like child's play
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County on the Thames
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County on the Thames
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Legal postponement
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What Winthrop speaks with in "The Music Man"
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Give in
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Give in
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Musicians' slip-ups
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Musicians' slip-ups
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Hang-ups
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Hang-ups
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Fannie ___
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Fannie ___
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Isaac Newton, by hobby
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Isaac Newton, by hobby
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Classic soda brand
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Source of the word "galore"
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Source of the word "galore"
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Xbox and GameCube
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Xbox and GameCube
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Cause
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Cause
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Long-distance travelers, informally
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Long-distance travelers, informally
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Composer Dvorak
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Composer Dvorak
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Passed out
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Passed out
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De-squeaked
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De-squeaked
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Thick cloud above a peak
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Thick cloud above a peak
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Took in
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Took in
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___ of the land
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___ of the land
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System used in computer code
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System used in computer code
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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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That, in Spanish
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That, in Spanish
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Quizzical utterances
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Quizzical utterances
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Actress Conn of "Grease"
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Actress Conn of "Grease"
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Popular tablets
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Popular tablets
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Antique shop deal
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Antique shop deal
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Stove-top item
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Stove-top item
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Where a herd might be heard
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Aretha Franklin's Grammy-nominated sister
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Aretha Franklin's Grammy-nominated sister
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Thingamajig
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Thingamajig
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Kind of order for the circled letters in this puzzle
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Swedish Air Force supplier
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Swedish Air Force supplier
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Guys
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Guys
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Making a clerical error?
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Making a clerical error?
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Exercise in dexterity
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Exercise in dexterity
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Grease
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Grease
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Cry from a nursery
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Cry from a nursery
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The king of diamonds carries one
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The king of diamonds carries one
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It might be glassy or icy
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It might be glassy or icy
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Ragtime great Blake
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Ragtime great Blake
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Shrub that produces a crimson-colored spice
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Shrub that produces a crimson-colored spice
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Two-time Emmy winner for "30 Rock"
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Common thing to lie about
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Rule that ended in 1947
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Rule that ended in 1947
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Prime cut
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Prime cut
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"___ is life"
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"___ is life"
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Carving in a cartouche
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Carving in a cartouche
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Business whose patrons are often fighting
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Business whose patrons are often fighting
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Entanglement
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Entanglement
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#44
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#44
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Completely embarrasses, slangily
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Completely embarrasses, slangily
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Piece of music that evokes the countryside
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Piece of music that evokes the countryside
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Certain percussion player
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Certain percussion player
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Home of the Komodo dragon
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Home of the Komodo dragon
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Knuckleheads
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Knuckleheads
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*Swoon*
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*Swoon*
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Southwestern ski resort
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Southwestern ski resort
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Prime meridian std.
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Prime meridian std.
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Absurd pretense
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Absurd pretense
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20-Across's island, to locals
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20-Across's island, to locals
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Sum total: Abbr.
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Sum total: Abbr.
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Storehouse
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Storehouse
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___ polloi
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___ polloi
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Voting district
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Voting district
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Like the newspaper Al-Shabiba
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Like the newspaper Al-Shabiba
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Ancient empire builders
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Ancient empire builders
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Something to play for
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Something to play for
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Some are shockers
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Some are shockers
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Online handicrafts marketplace
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Part of many a postcard, briefly
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Part of many a postcard, briefly
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Gardner of old Hollywood
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Gardner of old Hollywood
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Nine-symbol message
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Word often spoken in pig Latin
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