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Huge Laura Murphy · Saturday, 3 May 2025 · Ahhhh!
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Element #90 whose name sounds like the Marvel god of thunder's personal domain
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Curved path in the sky, or what follows Joan of ___ in history class
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Lively, free-form musical piece, intense and often virtuosic (Italian origin)
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An unordered list in HTML
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Slanted direction across a chessboard; a Bishops movement is __
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Multiple positions in geometry, sounds like Marvel's God of Mischief
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Fuse together, like the Vulcan mind ___ (minus the first word)
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Jagged Italian peaks that starred in a James Bond ski chase
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Highly appreciated—how your boss hopes you feel on Employee Appreciation Day
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Size of battery that is also the ticker symbol for an airline with lots of frequent flyers
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Two-letter greeting meaning good morning—or the car giant behind the Chevy brand
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English television presenter known for Top Gear and Grand Tour, James __
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Messi rival (abbr.)
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Front-step perch on a New York brownstone, perfect for a Sesame Street chat
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Interjection primarily used to express surprise, enthusiasm, or mild annoyance
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Antimatter counterpart of an electron—Dan Brown once used it to threaten the Vatican
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Abbrev. that means the elder—what comes after Howard Stark's name on official documents
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British word for a cloth napkin—ask for one if you spill tea at a London café
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Stat sheet abbr. for 36 inches—or what a running back racks up in gains
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Letter that begins the word snake, spelled out loud
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Informal word for tattoos—ink beloved by Dwayne Johnson and Post Malone
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Archaic past-tense form of tell—you might spot it in a Scottish ballad
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Abbrev. for California's TV-drama county (The ___) or a fan-fic original character
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Glowing word that titles an Imagine Dragons hit and describes uranium
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Swiss-based watchdog defending press freedom, for short
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Mineral deposits that supply nuclear fuel and make Geiger counters click
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Prefix on Soviet fighter jets that Maverick dogfights in Top Gun
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Clusters of pimples teen comedies love to exaggerate
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Currency of Iran (or Oman) worth several thousand to a dollar
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Post-WWII decades defined by superpower stare-downs, plural
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Stand-up genre that keeps sitcom laugh tracks rolling
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What Adele would call the restroom across the pond
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KPI that measures a customers total revenue for a business, in their lifetime
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Tiny metric volume unit—bartenders measure it in shots, abbr.
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Short and stout whistling vessel of nursery-rhyme fame
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Top pilots or high cards in a poker hand
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Classic Sondheim musical subtitled 'A Musical Fable'
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Kyrgyzstan once was one, abbr. in Soviet history
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Soul legend Redding who was sittin' on the dock of the bay
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Big dictionary whose first edition took 70 years, in brief
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Tokyo telecom giant known as Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, abbr.
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Video-game publisher behind The Sims and FIFA, briefly