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Across Clues
- Performs a roleACTS
- Big jumpLEAP
- Papa ___ (blue cartoon character)SMURF
- Trunk, to a BritBOOT
- ThereforeERGO
- Haircut similar to a fadeTAPER
- Sectional, for oneSOFA
- Spanish for “aunts”TIAS
- Low-cost, in product namesECONO
- Government employeesPUBLICSERVANTS
- Comic’s routineSET
- Poked one’s nose where it didn’t belongPRIED
- “No way!”OMG
- Shirley Ann Jackson’s alma materMIT
- Chewed like a hamsterGNAWED
- Straw headwearPANAMAHATS
- Suga ___ (“The Proud Family” character)MAMA
- Clear off the whiteboardERASE
- Environmentalist’s prefixECO
- Plains stampederBISON
- Dallas Mavericks great NowitzkiDIRK
- Federal subsidies for college studentsPELLGRANTS
- ComfortSOLACE
- Chloe x Halle, for exampleDUO
- Simple shirtTEE
- Assigned stars to, sayRATED
- “. . . you get the picture” (Abbr.)ETC
- Some Grand Canyon photosPANORAMICSHOTS
- As promptedONCUE
- Undergarments with clasps, oftenBRAS
- Spam, e.g.MEAT
- Obsessive fansSTANS
- “To be,” to ColetteETRE
- CreateMAKE
- Coin flip callHEADS
- Like hot pink hairDYED
- Word before “code” or “rug”AREA
Vertical Clues
- Stomach musclesABS
- Hen’s homeCOOP
- Kimchi-jjigae ingredientTOFU
- TriesSTABS
- “Black Panther” actress WrightLETITIA
- Ncuti Gatwa’s “Sex Education” roleERIC
- Let out ___ (show surprise)AGASP
- WannabePOSER
- “___ Universe”STEVEN
- Hawaiian nutMACADAMIA
- AtopUPON
- Monthly paymentRENT
- Picked hairstyles, for shortFROS
- “___ see!”LEMME
- Dishonestly fixesRIGS
- Opinion columnsOPEDS
- Nintendo plumberMARIO
- Knot on a tree trunkGNARL
- Archaic pronounTHEE
- “That ___ Me” (Brandi Carlile song)WASNT
- Show feelingsEMOTE
- Ballet, for example, in FrenchDANSE
- Do an informal pollASKAROUND
- Knee part, for shortACL
- Broke the news toTOLD
- Chicken soup ingredientBROTH
- Anti-leather grp.PETA
- Made an estimateGUESSED
- Lover’s touchCARESS
- Firmly fixEMBED
- In need of washingDIRTY
- List punctuationCOMMA
- SwankyPOSH
- It might be upped at the poker tableANTE
- Org. impacted by the Fair Pay to Play ActNCAA
- Nurses provide itCARE
- Pantyhose mishapTEAR
- “For goodness’ ___!”SAKE
- What “chai” meansTEA