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AllegationAcross
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Allegation
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The worst ones are often the hardest to break
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Literary form for MacArthur Fellow Reginald Dwayne Betts
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Like 31-Across, for the past 15 years
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Suit perfectly, as a suit
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One watching the game?
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"I've said that ___ times"
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Place in the city
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Vex
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Do some wok work
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"A friend to all is a friend to none / Chase two girls, lose the ___": 31-Across, "cardigan"
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Premier pilots
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Long, short, or mid follower
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One with a view to the Leaning Tower, perhaps
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First name in fragrances
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"Could it be ... ___?!": the Church Lady
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13, 21, 2, 5, 24, 51
Album of the Year winner for "folklore" (2020)
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Tony-winning actress O'Hara
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Accustom (to)
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Gradually stops mooning?
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Self-confident assertion
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Jazz singer and civil rights activist Simone
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Prefix with tourist or hotel
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"Do me a ___, would you?"
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Not MYOB
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Horse racing wager that entails choosing the top four finishers in the correct order
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North Carolina college town
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___ Noah, host of "The Daily Show"
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Pulled off a rather precarious-looking surfing maneuver
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Like Joaquin and Julián Castro
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Sincere-sounding guy?
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They may be foreign or frozen
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Fawning sort
Down
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Cosmetics company that owns OPI and Gucci
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31
"You knew the password so I ___ you in the door": 31-Across, "hoax"
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It's over!
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Bold statement from a bluffer
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31
31-Across song whose title is represented visually in this puzzle
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Cymbals operated with a pedal
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Migraine suffered during a geometry test, e.g.?
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"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! There's still plenty of meat on that ___!": Carl Weathers, on "Arrested Development"
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Some opening tracks
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Davidson of the U.S. women's soccer team
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Word with saver or protector
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Least cooked, maybe
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"The Comedy of Errors" or "Broad City"
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Nowhere to be found, slangily
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Author of "The Count of Monte Cristo," who considered his own magnum opus to be "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine," a 1,150-page cookbook/culinary history that wasn't published until after his death
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Vested interest
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"I've come too far to watch some name-dropping sleaze / ___ me what are my words worth": 31-Across, "the lakes"
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Jokingly
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Cry for attention?
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Certain wombmate
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Greek salad fruit
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Certain wombmate
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Defunct energy giant with a crooked "E" in its logo (aptly, as it turned out)
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City district next to Santa Monica, for short
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Luxury Hondas
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Hotel policy that some might consider speciesist
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"Broad City" actor Castro
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Rand who wrote "The Fountainhead"
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Cuts on a Jackson Five album?
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Singer/songwriter/record producer Sands
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Elsa's sister in "Frozen"
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E-tail site on which a search for 31-Across returns 63,736 results, among them a "Folklore Cardigan"
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Substitute for a H.S. diploma
Crossword #29 - Off the Wall
