Anticipation-building words Crossword Clue

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ANTICIPATION (noun)
1. an expectation
2. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
BUILDING (noun)
1. the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
2. the act of constructing something

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Across

1. The appearance of a villain in a bathroom mirror and the inability to start a car, in horror movies

8. Robert De Niro’s “You talkin’ to me?” in “Taxi Driver,” for example

15. Funny bone?

16. B.Y.U. part

17. Game played with gelt

18. Pings on social media, briefly

19. Squeezed (out)

21. Shakespearean verb

22. Husked unit

24. Frothy order

26. “Outta sight!”

29. Utterly incorrect, so to speak

32. Aggression caused by P.E.D.s

34. Gardener’s supply

35. Like some chardonnay barrels

37. Characters in binary code

38. Sci-fi space-weather event that might feature blasts of charged particles

40. What something going “down the hatch” goes down

42. Cornelius or Dr. Zaius, in a 1968 film

43. Election-night visual

45. Nickname for Maureen or Mohammed

46. Luxury-auto initials

47. Novice, informally

49. Texter's "Frankly ..."

52. Protagonist of “Encanto”

56. What someone entering the workforce may learn to do

58. Pair in a sex shop

60. Launch needs

61. See-through

62. Messy Easter activity

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Down

1. Norwegian, for one

2. Object in a chest

3. 'Count me in!'

4. Spooky sound

5. Parent of Spam and Skippy

6. North Pole denizen

7. Winter conveyance

8. Like items back from the tailor

9. Checkout option

10. Set down

11. Emerald ___

12. Liberty __

13. One of several around a quad, perhaps

14. Reproducing illicitly

15. Compound in some gummies: Abbr.

20. 1990 Sam Raimi film whose antihero uses his superpowers to seek revenge

23. Hole punchers

25. Temperature tester, maybe

26. Welcome antitheses to hate mail

27. "A Death in the Family" writer James

28. Word on an Oscar

29. Home of Kuwait and Kyrgyzstan

30. Roller coaster element

31. Cloying

33. Brand of lampshade-shaped chocolates

36. ___-wrestling contest

39. Heavy-bottomed glass

41. Semiotician Eco

44. One who might earn a treat for being a good sitter

46. Swirly braided bread

48. “Practical Magic” actress Dianne

50. Inclination

51. She/___ pronouns

52. 46-Across rival, for short

53. Object of adoration

54. Main ingredient in zongzi

55. Slippery substance

57. Wows

59. Beverage rarely consumed in the summer

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