Beauty's fairy-tale counterpart Crossword Clue

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Beauty's fairy-tale counterpart Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a cruelly rapacious person
2. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

COUNTERPART (noun)
1. a duplicate copy
2. a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another
BEAUTY (noun)
1. a very attractive or seductive looking woman
2. an outstanding example of its kind

Hint 3: Anagram

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ABETS

More The Atlantic Crossword (2/16/2025) Answers

Across

1. Jewish religious leader.

6. "Rock ___ the Clock" (1954 Bill Haley & His Comets hit)

8. Fledgling tech company, maybe

10. 99 Luftballons singer

11. Allowed

14. "Mi ___ es su ___"

15. "Not really an expert or anything, but that doesn't stop me!"

19. Break before classes

20. Attorney general before Garland

21. Ear coverings?

22. Mints named for their seal of approval from Good Housekeeping

23. Delivered

24. Company that named its rugby-union team Big Blue

25. Photo finish

28. Definitely not sudden

30. "Let me give it a spin?"

31. Abrasive presence in a kitchen, perhaps

32. A Kid Named ___ (breakthrough 2008 mixtape)

33. It's always positive

35. Royal who negotiated the Treaty of Picquigny, ending the Hundred Years' War

36. Broadcaster founded by a former New England Whalers employee

37. Repressed

41. Finds a way

42. How many rants are written

43. Term whose etymology, Thoreau believed, came from sainte-terre

44. Worthless stuff

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Down

1. College employees who might receive free room and board

2. The "A" of MoMA

3. ___ constrictor (nonvenomous snake)

4. With 29-Down, refrain from a 1976 hit by the Trammps

5. What a spy might gather, for short

7. Science-fiction franchise set partially on a desert planet

9. Embellish as a resume

11. Source of a vaper's vapor, for short

12. Zilch

13. Lickety-split

17. Some little songbirds

18. Flubs

21. Dweller in a 14-Across, perhaps

22. Some strikers?

23. The ___ (2010s dramedy about a woman with melanoma)

25. Yields

26. Catch-22, e.g.

27. Close-up-magic pioneer Tony

29. See 4 Down

33. Something you might do on Craigslist

34. Instapoetry pioneer

35. "Do You Hear the People Sing?" musical, for short

38. Stops on the way to the bar?

39. Components of some polytopes

40. Action figure?

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