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ScantAcross
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Scant
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Capital of Mongolia: ___ Bator
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Warning to a con man: "Don't try to pull a ___!" (2 wds.)
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Back of a record
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* Pixar's first feature film (1995), with characters Woody and Buzz Lightyear (2 wds.)
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Slogan for peaceniks, perhaps (2 wds.)
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Aerial to pick up signals off the air
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Necessary, as in "only if ___" (2 wds.)
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Pre-smartphone devices, like Palm Pilots (abbr.)
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Don't be fooled on this month's opening (abbr.)
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Severe experience
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Droop
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Russian writer ___ Chekov
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54
* 2016 film subtitled "Miracle on the Hudson"
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&
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"Estime de ___" (self esteem in French)
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Interjection expressing rejection or disgust
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54
* 2002 Irish Mob drama set in the depression-era Illinois (3 wds.)
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Leo Tolstoy novel "___ Karenina"
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Business end of a pen
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British bathroom
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Tapered tool driven in to split wood or rock
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Naked figures in art
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* 1988 comedy film about a boy whose wish to be ___ turns him into an adult, physically
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Watching
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"The" in German
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"Miss" in Spanish (abbr.)
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Venus' sister
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Coach full of people
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Senses flavour
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14, 26, 31, 43, 13
What (or whom) the answers to the starred clues have in common (2 wds.)
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Put a new sap hole into a maple tree
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"___ of prevention is worth a pound of cure" (2 wds.)
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Indicates "yes" nonverbally
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Equips anew, as sails on a yacht
Down
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Appliance brand that had a "Lonely Repairman" in its ads
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Mississippi has 4 of them
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Abbr. before the name of the person or dept. concerned in a memo or letter
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Talk non-stop (4 wds.)
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Enthralled
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Singer Lana Del ___
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"Don't ___ double negatives": William Safire (Nixon speechwriter), ironically (2 wds.)
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Ocean ___: large passenger ships... or inside layers of jackets
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totaled (3 wds.)
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Capital of India (2 wds.)
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Henry who won the 1981 Best Actor Academy Award for "On Golden Pond"
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___ Mandel who wrote the screenplay for "Splash" (1984) starring 54-Across
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Army lights-out bugle song
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Have full faith in (2 wds.)
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Citizen Kane's dying word
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Colony crawler
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Word used near "neither"
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Musical direction meaning slow, but not too slow
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Unfounded hearsay (2 wds.)
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Most uncooked
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365.25 days (2 wds.)
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Fairy tale writer Hans Christian ___
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Sewing aid... or ATM numeric access code (abbr.)
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Apple mobile operating system (abbr.)
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Group of nine, from Greek
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Fillet, as a fish
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Wild horses
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Restaurant waiter: "May ___ your order?" (2 wds.)
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Wanders randomly... or chisels for rock
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Sudden inhalations
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Informal language
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Feng ___: Chinese decorating philosophy
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Sticky black sealant
Oct. 27 - THanks for the Movies
