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The Washington Post · Sunday · Sunday, June 21, 2026 · Evan Birnholz
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Type of joke seen on "Family Guy" that often involves a random flashback
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Across
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Type of joke seen on "Family Guy" that often involves a random flashback
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Reveal
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Across
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Type of joke seen on "Family Guy" that often involves a random flashback
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Computer networking company based in the Bay Area
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Shoes or socks, e.g.
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Cooking liquid derived from a green fruit
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President who followed Gamal
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Latvian National Opera and Ballet locale
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A second behind on screen?
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Singer of the Broadway song "Buenos Aires"
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In the manner of
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Evaluates
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Apt feature of an Electric Light Orchestra concert
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Magic of the NBA, once
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Food drive containers
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Indie ___ (rep for some bands)
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Subjects of major interest?
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"The wait is finally over!"
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Perform from memory, as a poem
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Images often tapped with one's thumb
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Film such as "Seven," or many a 007 film
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See 19 Down
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Period personified by the Greek goddess Nyx
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Hypothetical hominids
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"Mixing Colours" musician Roger or Brian
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Device that could grant infinite lives to Nintendo players
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Certain circus jumpers
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Intimated
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___ high (set lofty goals)
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Maker of golf shirts
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Communication software used at work (though its name means "to avoid work")
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Keys on maps
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Make rise, as with yeast
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Framing components
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At this website, in cyberspeak
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Where one is lying in the Bible?
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Produces low interest rates?
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Words one may repeat in response to several instances of "Are not!"
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Things parked in parks, briefly
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People on the A line
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L'Espace Van Gogh city
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Rhyming band with the album "Metal Health"
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"Definitely"
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Prepares for takeoff
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Group in power after a revolution, perhaps
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"Smallfoot" cryptid
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Fellow members of a community
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Jack with a no-fat diet
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"The Secret ___" (short story by Joseph Conrad)
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Sets in stone, say
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Short-order cook's workplace
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Fish sticker, say
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Animal that may follow "elephant" or "leopard"
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More on edge
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Assign, as blame
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Arrives
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"Oh you ___ dog!"
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Since the beginning
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"You heard the man"
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"___ nobis pacem" (Latin phrase that means "grant us peace")
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Debussy composition inspired by a body of water
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Try to gain favor
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A of the WNBA: Abbr.
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Timetables, informally
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One who's asking too much
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Scheming faction
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Dangler often seen by a dentist
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Summer product?
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Perform in a play
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Lump of gum
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The Bard's ballyhoo
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"Name ...?"
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Lumps of gum
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Suffers from sickness
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Feeling after one's favorite team wins a championship
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Green mixtures created by chef Cardini
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Devise, as a device
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Meat dish that, despite its name, did not originate in Bern or Zurich
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Animal rescued by the Meow Foundation
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Practice of maintaining good dental hygiene
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Find a buyer in advance
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Warren G. Harding's dog Laddie Boy, e.g.
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Hunchbacked assistant
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With 49 Across, went wild
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End of rant?
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MRI or X-ray, e.g.
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Inviting comparisons
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First-aid ___
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Bob's miserly employer in an 1843 novella
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Uncompromising
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Woe after a workout
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"We have a ___ in common"
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Procedure that may be blocked by a filibuster
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Sitarist's melodic form
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Reason for an Android's beep, perhaps
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Post readers post replies in these places
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British boat letters
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Knowledgeable about, as a secret plan
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Chest muscles, for short
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Assents
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Smoky pipes
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Word in World Cup chants
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Concerned consumers
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Produced at the right time of year, as produce
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"A long time ___ in a galaxy far, far away ..."
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Foot feature, or a flatfish
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Fail to mention
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"Possibly"
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Earns
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They're connected to parents in family trees
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Mix, as with a straw
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"Buckler and corslet, ___ and sword, / And shining spears were laid in hoard" (lyric sung by Gimli in "The Fellowship of the Ring")
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Wharf
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"___ World" (kids' YouTube channel featuring toy reviews)
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Military equipment sites
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Third-yr. students
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Physical description of Clyde Wynant in a Dashiell Hammett mystery novel
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Close friends
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Blazing or boiling, say
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Curbed, with "in"
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Spice space
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"Somebody's Crying" singer Chris
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First-class
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Winona of "Heathers"
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Those opposed to cons
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Either of two delivered during a same-day delivery?
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"Not this again!"
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Moves like an excited dog's tail
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Org. approving meds
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Tibetan ox
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World War II general ___ Arnold
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Predicted landing hr.
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Commanding officer's address, at times