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Preschoolish retortAcross
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Preschoolish retort
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Hold tight
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Six-pack on your person at all times?
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For all to hear
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Le Pew of toondom
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Where you might have a cow?
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26, 38
"Love Is a Battlefield" Grammy winner, 1984
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Kind of cake or milk
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Kind of chat or dragon?
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Like Goodwill merchandise
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Whole bunch
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Stir to action
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Enthused reply to "Are you ready?"
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16, 38
First female artist to smash a guitar on the "SNL" stage, to my knowledge (Feb. 6, 2021)
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Queen of the jungle
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"Peeno __" (song written and performed by Titus on "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt")
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2
See 2-Down
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Spiced brew
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A schmoozer might drop one
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Apprehend
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16, 26
Frontwoman ... or, read another way, what you could call 16- or 26- Across, based on their initials?
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Mined material
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Concerning words on a memo?
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Katniss's fellow District 12 tribute
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Margaret Farrar served as its first crossword editor from 1942-68: Abbr.
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Enlivens, with "up"
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French city that anagrams to LASER
Down
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Puts an upper limit on
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31
With 31-Across, "Marriage Story" actor
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Unlikely to pan out
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Means of compelling testimony
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Sappho's "___ to Aphrodite"
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Nos. of interest to admissions officers
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Injure again, as an ACL
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Tablets that, despite their name, are still awfully hard to swallow
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The second "p" in ppm
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Balm for a burn
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Mr. or Mrs. in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"
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Lecherous woodland deities
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Take, clothes off?
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One still learning the ropes
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Japan's longest-serving prime minister
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Words of promise
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Anticipate
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Actress Swank of "Boys Don't Cry"
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C natural's equivalent
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Summer thirst quenchers
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Pass (out)
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Chapters in a geology textbook, maybe
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Feature of a mouth or crater
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Hoppy brew
Crossword #8 - The Weight
