Certain music-sales benchmark Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia
2. a deep yellow color
(adjective)
1. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
2. made from or covered with gold

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BENCHMARK (noun)
1. a surveyor’s mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point
2. a standard by which something can be measured or judged
CERTAIN (adjective)
1. having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
2. certain to occur; destined or inevitable

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Across

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9. Puts on notice

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15. 360 degrees at a theme park: var.

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19. Moose relative

20. Moves from Kauaʻi to the Big Island?

21. Brute

22. Older sister of Carlton Banks

24. Fish name hidden backwards in haddock

25. Something to get tested for before a hookup

26. Like authors featured by the NDN Girls Book Club

27. Malice

29. Considered separately

30. Rice or spaghetti, for example

33. Animated series produced and set in Queensland, Australia

34. __ result

35. Muppet known for his fondness for bubble baths

37. Modern perambulator

39. Rabbit relatives

40. Management, metonymically

41. Button next to "Start" on some old game controllers

42. #TBT day

45. Degree for some 40-Across

46. Without a doubt

47. Early Netflix user, maybe

49. Metaphorically thrown concession

50. Creature whose name is fittingly found in pantry

52. Dismissive comment to which there's no comeback?

54. One of many in the logo of 58-Across

55. Orange-and-vanilla treat

56. Currency of the Philippines

57. Teammate of LeBron in the 2016 NBA Finals

58. Project Mercury org.

59. Condition that body doubling can help with

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Down

1. Encourage

2. Places to catch people picking pockets?

3. Resolve something via discussion

4. Unmatched

5. Enticing quality

6. Item traditionally found between a finger bowl and a dessert plate

7. Infinitesimal amount

8. Like the name of Justice Mary Yu, officiant of the first same-sex marriages in Washington State

9. "End of discussion!"

10. ___ mater

11. They're not exactly dark horses

12. [Touches nose]

13. 1994 film for which Sandra Bullock acquired a bus driver's license

16. They might use you for your body?

20. Playful opposite of "I feel seen"

23. Shelf protectors, maybe

24. Annual cinéma prize

26. Seize

27. Items that invariably get smashed, in a comedic trope

28. It may be raised by raises

30. Country that passed world-first protections for intersex people in 2015

31. Like doppelgängers

32. Star of Claws and Reno 911

36. Winter time zone in Toronto

38. Many people born in October

41. Brewed beverage that doesn't require hot water

42. Record audio, or the result of recording audio

43. Literary Higgins or Huggins

44. Not "above"

46. The ___ of Black Folk (W. E. B. Du Bois book)

48. Former Taiwanese president ___ Ing-wen

49. Plant-based brand since 1979

51. Stepped

53. Dark side of Chinese philosophy?

54. Spot for robes and sweaters?

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