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US state purchased from Russia in 1867 (6)
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Water, south of the US border (4)
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Descartes philosophy emphasizing reason over experience (11)
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Film dubbing technique, briefly (3)
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The first division of the Christian biblical canon, for short (2)
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Detective's assignment (4)
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Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's Bengali sleuth (8)
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Indian railway code (2)
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Father, informally (2)
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Azadirachta indica tree (4)
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James Clavell novel set in feudal Japan (6)
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Grape refuse used in brandy-making (4)
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Kirk-era Star Trek series, for short (3)
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Home of the Skeleton Coast (7)
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Universal recipient blood type, briefly (2)
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Anno Domini (2)
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Spanish article (2)
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Francis ___, empiricist philosopher (5)
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Hussein, Egyptian novelist (4)
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Chaplin and Keaton's film era (7)
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Small piece of data (3)
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Warehouses for grain or goods (11)
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Desert kingdom in One Piece manga (8)
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Gaga or Macbeth (4)
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The Fate who cuts life's thread (7)
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Seventh musical note (2)
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Eccentric person, slangily (4)
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Receiver of radio waves (7)
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Paulo Coelho's treasure-seeking novel (9)
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Carangi, supermodel (3)
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Cold War superpower (4)
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The Beautiful, cryptically (7)
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Periodical, for short (3)
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Compass point (2)
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Queen of fairies in Romeo and Juliet (3)
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Tolkien's Bilbo or Frodo (6)
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Ruined or reversed (6)
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Lionel ___, Hello singer (6)
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Myself (2)
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Laptop brand (4)
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Hello, slangily (3)
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To the ___ degree (3)
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Core muscles, briefly (3)
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A kind of software used by HR depts (3)
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Letters before a ship's name on old liners (2)
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Thus, in texting or logic (2)