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New York Times: Sunday, February 1, 2015
Below is the full solution for the Sunday, February 1, 2015 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
David Steinberg
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Filling entrees?
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Imperfect
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Imperfect
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Laugh track content
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Laugh track content
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Former Diet Pepsi spokesmodel
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Former Diet Pepsi spokesmodel
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Nymph jilted by Paris
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Nymph jilted by Paris
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"The Vampire Diaries" protagonist
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"The Vampire Diaries" protagonist
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Content of a demand to attend?
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Content of a demand to attend?
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Cry of frustration
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Cry of frustration
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___ flakes
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___ flakes
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Hullabaloo
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Hullabaloo
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Square meal?
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Square meal?
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Gas station adjunct
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Gas station adjunct
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Freaky funeral noise?
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Freaky funeral noise?
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Tornado Alley state: Abbr.
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Tornado Alley state: Abbr.
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Smirnoff Ice, e.g.
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Smirnoff Ice, e.g.
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Red-faced
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Red-faced
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View from Big Ben
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View from Big Ben
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Patriots' and Seahawks' org.
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Patriots' and Seahawks' org.
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"Castaway" director, 1986
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"Castaway" director, 1986
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Points of view
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Points of view
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W.W. II rationing agcy.
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W.W. II rationing agcy.
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Dive from a fire-breathing creature?
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Dive from a fire-breathing creature?
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Al Qaeda stronghold
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Al Qaeda stronghold
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Vegetable that's often fried
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Place first, second or third, say
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Man of letters?
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Man of letters?
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"The Bridge on the River Kwai" director
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"The Bridge on the River Kwai" director
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Certain embedded Internet video
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Certain embedded Internet video
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___ lupus (gray wolf)
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___ lupus (gray wolf)
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Not there yet
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Not there yet
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Company that introduced Saran Wrap
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Company that introduced Saran Wrap
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Venti, vingt or zwanzig?
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Venti, vingt or zwanzig?
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Missal storage site
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Missal storage site
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Coffee bean variety
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Coffee bean variety
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Went on a run?
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Went on a run?
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43-Across ball carriers: Abbr.
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43-Across ball carriers: Abbr.
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Lake ___, biggest lake in South America
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Lake ___, biggest lake in South America
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Holdups
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Holdups
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Perfumery measure
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Perfumery measure
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Workers' rights org.
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Workers' rights org.
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Wool source
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Wool source
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Woe for a sunburned sea monster?
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Woe for a sunburned sea monster?
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Northern California's ___ River
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Northern California's ___ River
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Burn
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Burn
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Make hot
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Make hot
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___-Magnon
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___-Magnon
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Uses mouthwash, e.g.
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Uses mouthwash, e.g.
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Like a dutiful sentry
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Like a dutiful sentry
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Faux pas
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Faux pas
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Symbol on a sarcophagus
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Symbol on a sarcophagus
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Intel products used at a nuclear facility?
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Intel products used at a nuclear facility?
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Hit with a charge
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Hit with a charge
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Seiji Ozawa, e.g.
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Seiji Ozawa, e.g.
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"Argo" setting
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"Argo" setting
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Roman guardian spirit
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Roman guardian spirit
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Diminish in strength
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Diminish in strength
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Overseeing a work crew, e.g.?
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Overseeing a work crew, e.g.?
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Cause of radioactivity
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Cause of radioactivity
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Beggar's receptacle
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Beggar's receptacle
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Attorney's presentation
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Attorney's presentation
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Coeur d'___
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Coeur d'___
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Part of a contract
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Part of a contract
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Mess
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Mess
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Game show V.I.P.'s
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Three-vowel word that sounds like a fourth vowel
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Like some knights and warships
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Kind of paste
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Kind of paste
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What a spoiler might spoil
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What a spoiler might spoil
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Golfer Woosnam
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Golfer Woosnam
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Chi-town circlers
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Chi-town circlers
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Possessions
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Possessions
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Old fogy
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Old fogy
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"We'd better skip it"
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"We'd better skip it"
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Santa ___ winds
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Santa ___ winds
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Got the gold
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Got the gold
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Envelope abbr.
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Envelope abbr.
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Handle of a plow?
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Handle of a plow?
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Unceremonious removal
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Unceremonious removal
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Half a game name that rhymes
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Half a game name that rhymes
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Feathers, pointy bill, long legs, etc.?
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Feathers, pointy bill, long legs, etc.?
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"Life of Pi" director
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"Life of Pi" director
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Old colonial masters
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Old colonial masters
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Aficionado
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Aficionado
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AIDS-fighting drug
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AIDS-fighting drug
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One with a colorful coat?
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One with a colorful coat?
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Woodard of "Primal Fear"
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Woodard of "Primal Fear"
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Garbage collector, informally?
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Garbage collector, informally?
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Slanted columns
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Slanted columns
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Fay of "King Kong"
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Fay of "King Kong"
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Upped
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Upped
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Plant swelling
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Plant swelling
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Like Isaac Asimov
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Like Isaac Asimov
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Speed skater Ohno
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Speed skater Ohno
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Words of thanksgiving
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Words of thanksgiving
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Common craps roll
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Common craps roll
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Dribble glass, e.g.
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Dribble glass, e.g.
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California resort town
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California resort town
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Feelings of guilt
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Feelings of guilt
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What I will always be, alphabetically
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What I will always be, alphabetically
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Parking lot figure
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Parking lot figure
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From square one
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From square one
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Problems with hoses
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Problems with hoses
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Skeletal enemy in Mario games
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Skeletal enemy in Mario games
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___ point
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___ point
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Perform terribly
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Perform terribly
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"Lookin' good!"
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"Lookin' good!"
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Kind of contraception
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Kind of contraception
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Period when rabbits stop fighting?
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Period when rabbits stop fighting?
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Harangues, with "at"
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Harangues, with "at"
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Sport
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Sport
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Mystery prize
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Mystery prize
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Naïfs
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Naïfs
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Slangy greeting
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Slangy greeting
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Salad bar morsels
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Salad bar morsels
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Like the world's largest sultanate
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Like the world's largest sultanate
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Economize to a fault
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Economize to a fault
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Juicy fruit
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Juicy fruit
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Destination of NASA's Dawn probe
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Destination of NASA's Dawn probe
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What Othello and Desdemona do in "Othello"
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What Othello and Desdemona do in "Othello"
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Prime Cuts brand
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Prime Cuts brand
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Site of ancient Greek Olympics
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Site of ancient Greek Olympics
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What the jack of spades lacks
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What the jack of spades lacks
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Howard Stern rival
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Howard Stern rival
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Howard Johnson rival
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Howard Johnson rival
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Chilean author Allende
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Chilean author Allende
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"My dear man"
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"My dear man"
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Difficult situation
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Difficult situation
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Greater or lesser follower
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Greater or lesser follower
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New York's ___ Island
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New York's ___ Island
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Circular opening?
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Circular opening?
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Gather (from)
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Gather (from)
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"South Park" boy
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"South Park" boy
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Some PC screens
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Some PC screens
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Many an art museum piece
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Many an art museum piece
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Cellular messenger
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Cellular messenger
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Bit of old French bread
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Bit of old French bread
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Charlottesville inst.
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Charlottesville inst.
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Picayune quibble
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Brass producer, briefly
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Brass producer, briefly
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Catchy thing?
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