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Smudge in a classic arithmetic/logic puzzle
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Coll. student learning about 35-Across and related concepts
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It tugs or lugs
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It helps some pools flow?
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Half of a heckling duo
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DoD project that provided technical foundation for the world wide web
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Singular form of 6-Down in German (although it looks like the plural form!)
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Junk debunker
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Org. founded in 1970 and currently led by Michael S. Regan, who was born 6 years after it was founded and is the first Black man in that position
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Split ___ (1970s/80s newwavers whose name is spelled that way as a punny reference to their home country)
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One of the 12 Olympians
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Guimarães greetings
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Heat source?
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Like a wick waiting for a Bic to be flicked
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"Good luck in this weather!"
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It follows cart?
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"Sister, Sister" stars ___ & Tamera Mowry
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P or NP in the Millenium Prize "P versus NP problem"
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"Positively!"
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Where you might be hit up for money in an alley?
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Metallica drummer Ulrich or NPR Music producer/writer Gotrich
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Paratha alternative
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Tuber known as uqa in Quechua
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Coll. to a Briton
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"Bad Feminist" Gay
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"___ at the pane, the quick sharp scratch / And blue spurt of a lighted match, [...]" (Robert Browning's "Meeting at Night")
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Penultimate track on the Kings of Leon album "Come Around Sundown" whose lyrics open with "I got a friend" but ironically don't include any Spanish
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"Ah-OOO-gah" noisemakers
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13, to triskaidekaphobes
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Compare with
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Like some local reporting
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"Welcome to the club!"
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"Evidently..."
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"(If You're ___ for Love) I'm Outta Here!" (1995 Shania Twain hit)
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It will begin on December 26, 2021
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Sandwiches I make with tempeh instead of one of the titular ingredients
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"Bye bye ___ Sebastian / Miss you in the saddest fashion / Bye bye ___ Sebastian / You’re 5000 candles in the wind" (Mouse Rat tribute to a beloved miniature horse)
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What you may notice in entries in each of this puzzle's four corners (and which I didn't notice until starting to write the clues, which is why I'm doing this instead of trying to fix them all, hope this puzzle is still fun kthxbye!)
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It only has three digits
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Beret ou bicorne
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Cold ___
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They're outstanding in their fields?
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Like
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She played Mary Jackson in "Hidden Figures"
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Low five?
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Sample again
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Cookie evoked (but not technically shown for legal reasons, I assume) in the logo of crossword Twitch channel CursewordsLive
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Put ___ (set aside, as a project)
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They lack foresight?
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They're objectified (sometimes literally)
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___ Duncan, Secretary of Education 2009-2016
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Upstate New York city that, like nearby Rome and Syracuse, is named for an ancient Mediterranean place
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[cya]
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Titular detective whose show popularized the "howcatchem" story format (as opposed to the "whodunit")
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Reddit co-founder and husband of Serena Williams
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10,000s, as they were called in Archimedes's "The Sand Reckoner", one of the earliest examples of new nomenclature for large numbers
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It came after the 360
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Letter sometimes used for an inclusion map in mathematics
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"___ Lights" (song by "Bob's Burgers" character Miss Triple X-Mas, voiced by Todrick Hall)
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"It's gonna be ___!" (weather report warning)
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"Yeah? Well, me too!"
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Adds a Lego (to)
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Houseplant grower?
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Winter coat
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Timothée's character in "Call Me by Your Name"
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Lumberjack (Do people actually use this term? I dunno, sorry for the crosswordese!)
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Comfy slip-on, for short
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Young Black astronaut character created by artist and ex-MLB player Micah Johnson that, in April 2021, became the first ever NFT optioned for film/TV
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