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1. That's a ____ excuse!
5. Former student 
9. Wyatt ____ 
13. Push down 
17. Recipe unit 
20. Astronaut Shepard
21. Former VP Al 
22. Fight 
23. It's black and white 
24. Informal greeting  
25. Dr. Welby, for short 
26. Oklahoma city  
27. Thought 
28. Cincinnati baseball team 
29. Road hazard
30. Paint chips from above? 
33. Window damage? 
35. Before Nov 
36. It's used in many sports 
37. Strange thing in the sky 
39. The other direction 
40. Heavy 
43. Amaze 
46. New (pref.) 
47. Turkish governors 
50. Human rights org. 
51. H.S. sci. subj. 
52. Chronic immune disease  
54. Disease in the news before COVID
56. Ivy League religious college (abbr.) 
59. Aftermath of disastrous barbecue? 
62. Powdery snow  
63. As of now 
64. Very damaging 
65. Search
66. Mantel pry bar?
69. Beverage 
70. ____ the Red  
73. Neck decoration 
74. Conjunctions 
75. Having protrusions
76. Herding dog  
77. Net hit on a serve in tennis
78. Dust ____
80. Greeting ____ 
81. Door hanger buying spree?
86. Dishonest structural engineers's con game?
89. Country of Esau's descendants 
90. City in India 
91. Vacation hotspot 
93. U.S. commerce report 
94. Latin brook 
96. Small drink 
97. Craggy hill 
98. Fall in droplets
99. Three in Albanian, Italian, etc 
102. Sign of a leaky roof? 
105. Car brand, for short 
107. Stonemason's tool 
109. Fed. cross-border bus. org. 
110. Putting on the ____
111. Fading bannister?
114. Village green 
115. Change 
117. Deaf person's telephone 
118. Slanted text (abbr.) 
119. Dog's bane 
120. Scottish musician 
121. Time period 
123. Thing 
124. Hay machine 
125. Grain storage building 
128. Mimic 
129. Computer key 
131. "What's up, ___?" 
132. Person persnickety about door handles?
136. Mismatched chandeliers? 
144. And so forth
145. Italian money 
146. Towards 
147. Vegetable 
148. Kitchen hotspot 
149. Irritate 
150. Biol. subj. 
151. Get larger 
152. Lustful look
153. Fixer-upper project
154. Votes against 
155. Prefix before phone or graph 
156. Fish 
157. Water current  
158. Happiness words 




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1. Aladdin's magic thing  
2. Wings  
3. The Old Grey ____
4. Room 
5. Secret _____
6. Yearn 
7. Acid produced by the body  
8. Person from ancient Persia
9. Roman official 
10. Tax review
11. Waterway 
12. Pandemic 
13. Trunk 
14. Region 
15. Drugs, for short 
16. Fancy 
17. Toss (dial.) 
18. March composer 
19. Having substance 
31. Cold 
32. Hotel 
34. Petrol 
38. Enemy 
40. Town and commune in Tuscany 
41. Speed up (abbr.) 
42. Separated
43. That girl
44. Actor Danson 
45. Effort 
46. U.S. arts foundation (abbr.)
47. "We are the ____"
48. Otherwise
49. God 
51. Angel 
52. _____ Banks 
53. Group of eight 
55. Night table
56. Small freshwater polyp
57. Remove grain parts by milling 
58. Replacement for another (obs.) 
60. _____ suzette
61. Jumped farther 
66. Vince ________ 
67. Great Lake
68. Per
71. Pelvis bones 
72. Large bed 
79. Arabian ruler 
81. Quintessential social distancer 
82. Stupidity 
83. Beginner 
84. Altered foods
85. Video adventure game 
87. Lazaretto
88. Tourist island off of Italy 
91. European ermine
92. Cracker wanter 
95. Ownerless 
99. Woven fabric 
100. Actress Zellweger 
101. Composer Sir Edward
103. Jack's well partner 
104. ____ von Bismarck
106. Sulking mood 
108. Of the sense of smell 
111. School org.
112. Former competitor of AT&T
113. Sheep 
116. Rival of a Dem.
120. Large crowd 
122. Hiding place 
123. Area in high demand in a pandemic 
124. Cardboard container 
125. Yarn unit
126. First part of a piece of music 
127. Door securers 
128. Let up 
129. Praise 
130. Packs up
131. Dear _____ 
133. Lath 
134. Number of lives a cat has 
135. Exam at school or the dentist 
137. Concerning 
138. Part in a play 
139. Got by 
140. Wilber Post's companion
141. Eye part 
142. Abandon 
143. Son of Seth 
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