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"Vikings: Valhalla" creator StuartAcross
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"Vikings: Valhalla" creator Stuart
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Sharp reporter?
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Former presidential hopeful who once told Huffpo that if sent back in time, he would kill baby Hitler without a moment's hesitation
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Punctual slogan?
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W follower
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"VR Troopers" doggo
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36, 55
The headline of tomorrow's newspaper, with 36-Across and 53-Across
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Robert Ardrey play that ran for seven performances and "twenty years ahead of its time"
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57
See 57-Down
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Skydiver Corliss
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George's son Jeff is halfway to a middling grade
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Goat character in "Home on the Range"
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Breast, in Belfast
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Randian antagonist?
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Buccaneer Terry
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Columba's hubby
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___ v. Alabama ex rel. T.B. (landmark sex discrimination case)
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See 17-Across
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Floridian starts journey - extremely bad
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Benazir's fellow Phi Beta Kappa ('73)
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Memetic "comrade"
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National treasure left in Bejeweled
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Author of the 2016 Clickhole article "You Shouldn't Have Made Fun of My Exclamation Point"
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Jazz trombonist Bishop
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Zippy boys' name derived from the Hebrew for "beloved friend"
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With 27-Down, man who admitted on the campaign trail that he thought Supergirl from the TV series "Supergirl" "looked pretty hot"
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Springfield namesake, familiarly
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Jehus be mad conservative
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See 17-Across
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Minecraft developer Bergensten
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Self-proclaimed "Joyful Tortoise"
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Potential Obama successor: Obama's Johnson wrapped around Beyonce vehicle
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Max's dad, in the Maximum Ride books
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He's presumably super jealous that his older brother got oil painting lessons from Sedrick Huckaby, as would we all in this highly common and relatable situation
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Bush that just never caught fire
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Florida Man seen in many a headline
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Former Denver Bronco Puzier
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"Duniya Meri ___ Mein" (1979 Shashi Kapoor film)
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Role for Val and Beck in some "SNL" bits
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As a teenager, he lit up 25% of Beja, Portugal
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___ Zreiq (Syrian village)
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His B.A. from UT Austin is in Latin American Studies
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___ Zreiqian (demonym for an inhabitant of 6-Down)
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NASCAR star Burton
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He quipped "The best news of the day was, my mom finally told me that I was her favorite"...
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...to which his mom said, "Ha ha ha, no I didn't"
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"For Love and For Life: The 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights" director
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Kerbal Space Program protagonist
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D___el Zaghouan (Tunisian mountain)
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Magruder featured in "All the President's Men"
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Sunshine State's favorite son
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Pseudoscience debunker Card
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Midlandian's monogram
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See 48-Across
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"All in for ___" (short-lived 2016 slogan)
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He nearly took Roger Goodall's spot as NFL commissioner
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Charter school advocate'll poke a toe
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Occupation, for an Otoe governor
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"Where'd you get that bitchin' new keyboard, Ben_?" "__ay, Justin!" (conversation between "La La Land" duo Pasek and Paul when the former's new keyboard he ordered during quarantine as a surprise gift for the latter finally arrived)
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"Wham!," in Warsaw
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Zydeco/bluegrass guitarist Puryear
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Apt rhyme for "nebbish"
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Okay, fine, apt SLANT rhyme for "nebbish." Are you happy now, smartass?
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Hoopster Ivey
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"___ recuses himself from dancing" (line in the McSweeney's article "How Key Players in the 2000 Election Perform at a Modern Dance Contest")
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Android disassembly program
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Initials on a wanted poster in Riga, if the wanted person had an alias, and also if by "initials" you mean "word," and also also if Riga is the capital of Latvia and not one of the other dozen countries in Europe that starts with an L, right? It is? Okay, good to know
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Aerospace engineer/wine critic Dunnuck
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"The leading primary research journal in comparative physiology," initially
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19,915, in duotrigesimal
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MVS's predecessor, in the Sorkinverse
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With 21-Across, "please clap" speaker
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