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| Mason's trough |
| Unreasonable |
| Talladega" singer who goes by his middle name, not first name (Kenneth): 2 wds. |
| Item deemed by a hi-tech company president in 1977 to be unreasonable for home use |
| Christmas songs |
| Jason Ritter sci-fi series that lasted for one season, with "The |
| Brutish person |
| Politico Stevenson |
| Alphabetical Jackson 5 hit |
| Person who rouses game birds to be shot |
| First word across in the first-ever crossword (1913) and the first of a dozen appearances of the word in this puzzle's grid, written word search-style (left, right, down, and diagonally) ... Can you f |
| 1964 Beatles song |
| Poisonous snake |
| 2005 Black Eyed Peas hit that Pitchfork called "so monumentally vacuous, slapped together and tossed-off that it truly tests the definition of 'song.' |
| Former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Dawson |
| 2000 Best Song Oscar winner |
| Conversation is ___ in which a man has all mankind for his competitors": Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| J'accuse" author's first name |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark" actor who reportedly passed on the "Schindler's List" role that went to Liam Neeson: 2 wds. |
| Kate Hudson's mom |
| Aircraft personnel |
| Broadway's first Willy Loman |
| A Parkinson's treatment |
| Adam's apple area? |
| French instructor's directive during elocution lessons |
| Person who makes sculptures of extinct animals? |
| Actor's first course? |
| #1 song between Phil Collins's "Groovy Kind of Love" and The Escape Club's "Wild Wild West" (1988 wasn't good for music, apparently) |
| Football great Dawson |