DAD'S DUE

Difficulty: HardGrid: 23x23164 clues~30-60 minBy Tap Osborn6/18/1978

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Crossword Clues

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Sizable (5 letters)
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___ oil (5 letters)
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Strident (5 letters)
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Photograph (5 letters)
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" . . . sadly ___": S. Foster (5 letters)
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Vichyssoise, for one (5 letters)
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Flirty one (5 letters)
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Dismiss (5 letters)
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Start of a four-line verse (23 letters)
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Performed with subtlety (10 letters)
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Slow-witted (5 letters)
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Cash in (6 letters)
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Word with Simon (4 letters)
33 Across
Pale blue (4 letters)
34 Across
Spiny-finned fish (5 letters)
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Multifaceted (7 letters)
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Row (4 letters)
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Obscure (5 letters)
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Nicene ___ (5 letters)
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Torn ligament (6 letters)
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Optician's product (4 letters)
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Four-time homer king (4 letters)
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Oopak or hyson (3 letters)
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Second line of verse (23 letters)
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Calm (5 letters)
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"___ on Sunday" (5 letters)
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Miscalculated (5 letters)
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Gain an edge (5 letters)
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Carriage (4 letters)
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Sitting rooms (5 letters)
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Fountain order (5 letters)
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Downstairs person (6 letters)
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Legume (3 letters)
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Mother Hubbard, e.g. (5 letters)
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Like some I.R.S. returns (5 letters)
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Snakebirds (7 letters)
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Fish, in a way (5 letters)
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Dipsy doodle (5 letters)
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Auto race (5 letters)
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Did some tailoring (7 letters)
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Victor from Denmark (5 letters)
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Goren, at times (5 letters)
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Expert (3 letters)
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Horrify (6 letters)
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Like a séance (5 letters)
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Now (5 letters)
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Off pitch (4 letters)
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Pierre's "That does it!" (5 letters)
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One of a famed trio (5 letters)
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"Jean" and "Marie" (5 letters)
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Square (5 letters)
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Third line of the verse (23 letters)
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Alkaline solution (3 letters)
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Buck heroine (4 letters)
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White-tailed eagle (4 letters)
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Rising high (6 letters)
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Shaw's "Superman" (5 letters)
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Ready to hit the hay (5 letters)
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Dominion (4 letters)
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Salt-covered plains (7 letters)
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Flip (5 letters)
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Anjou or Kieffer (4 letters)
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James or Chanel (4 letters)
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Protein-rich dish (6 letters)
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Soupçon (5 letters)
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Thistlelike plants (10 letters)
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End of verse (23 letters)
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Sign before Taurus (5 letters)
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Devour (5 letters)
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Walkway (5 letters)
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Rugged ridge (5 letters)
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Famous jockey of yore (5 letters)
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Earrings (5 letters)
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Plied with potions (5 letters)
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Light amplification of a kind (5 letters)

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"Peanuts" character (5 letters)
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Battleground (5 letters)
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Street tough (5 letters)
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Says "Aaah" (5 letters)
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Moslem V.I.P. (4 letters)
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Coined money (6 letters)
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Stag bagger (6 letters)
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Whirling (5 letters)
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Prurient (4 letters)
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Poet's "forever" (3 letters)
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Moses or Morse (6 letters)
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Realtor's bailiwick (6 letters)
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Flounder (5 letters)
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Maman's man (4 letters)
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Kin of mos. and wks. (3 letters)
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Raglan feature (6 letters)
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Ran the show (6 letters)
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Minklike swimmer (5 letters)
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S-curves (5 letters)
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"The Velvet Fog" (5 letters)
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Expectant father's activity (6 letters)
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Texas city (6 letters)
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Most perverse (6 letters)
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Undernourished sheep (5 letters)
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Eurydice was one (5 letters)
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Antimacassar (4 letters)
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Tragedy by Euripides (5 letters)
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Future officer (5 letters)
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Engulf (5 letters)
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Salk's target (5 letters)
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Like legal pads (5 letters)
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Arkin or Bates (4 letters)
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Dungarees' kin (5 letters)
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Bathtub-murder victim (5 letters)
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Item on a marquee (5 letters)
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Granddad (5 letters)
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Then, in Vienne (5 letters)
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Contemplate (6 letters)
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Chapter's partner (5 letters)
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Go over one's yesterdays (6 letters)
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Pilotless plane (5 letters)
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Every 3,600 seconds (6 letters)
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Like many dirt roads (5 letters)
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Maurois's biography of Shelley (5 letters)
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Smith's place (5 letters)
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"Bananas" (5 letters)
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Rooster's wattle (6 letters)
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Law expert (6 letters)
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Firm, lustrous fabric (6 letters)
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Author of "A Lonely Rage" (5 letters)
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Barbizon painter (5 letters)
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Dickens's "Barnaby ___" (5 letters)
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Tangle or disentangle (5 letters)
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Modern adhesive (5 letters)
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Anise or mace (5 letters)
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The "Borstal Boy" (5 letters)
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One on the receiving end (5 letters)
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Where Fisk crouches (5 letters)
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He brings down the house (5 letters)
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Eared seal (5 letters)
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Allen or Frome (5 letters)
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Local yokel (5 letters)
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Defect (4 letters)
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Globe-trotter's aid (5 letters)
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Rueful (5 letters)
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Stratagem (4 letters)
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Salad item (6 letters)
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Equivocate (6 letters)
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Dieter's concern (6 letters)
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Took four balls (6 letters)
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Danish seaport (6 letters)
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Cleansing process (6 letters)
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Bars legally (6 letters)
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Decide (6 letters)
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Stayed for (6 letters)
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Refreshments (5 letters)
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Lucine of the Met (5 letters)
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Did an usher's job (5 letters)
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Took care of (5 letters)
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Basketball tactic (5 letters)
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Menace in India (5 letters)
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Steinbeck subjects (5 letters)
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Gael, to Giscard (5 letters)
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Famed Canadian physician (5 letters)
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Peter I or Paul I (4 letters)
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Money-changing discount (4 letters)
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Cure (4 letters)
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Unite (3 letters)
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Dad, once (3 letters)

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