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Penultimate Puzzle | No. 186
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26-Down: Penultimate (and a hint to this puzzle’s theme)
Eponymous Sports Terms | No. 185
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29-Across: Eponymous high-jumping term
“Soup’s On!” | No. 184
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65-Across: Soup vegetables (and a hint to this puzzle’s theme)
Name Us—We’re Famous | No. 183
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1-Across: With 68-Across, Saturday Night Live cast member who played one of the Spartan Cheerleaders
Getting Metal-Physical | No. 182
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25-Across: “Beware of James Bond” or “Never fire a gun in an airplane,” for example?
’Tis a P-T | No. 181
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60-Down: Teller’s taller partner
Degrees in Anatomy | No. 180
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62-Across: 37° Celsius ... and a hint to this puzzle’s theme
Author Talks | No. 179
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61-Across: With The, 2023 book by Paulo Savaget subtitled Strategies from the World’s Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems
“Mwah!” | No. 178
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6-Down: Flatters excessively, informally
Women’s Book Club | No. 177
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4-Down: 1979 William Styron book
Zigzag Pattern | No. 176
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47-Down: Line on a weather map
Swap Exchange | No. 175
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64-Across: ___ reconfiguration (theme of this puzzle and a factor in geopolitics)
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