Colon replacement Crossword Clue

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Colon replacement Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
2. the act of moving with great haste
(verb)
1. run or move very quickly or hastily
2. break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

REPLACEMENT (noun)
1. a person who follows next in order
2. an event in which one thing is substituted for another
COLON (noun)
1. the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
2. the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos

Hint 3: Anagram

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5. Like many fringe festival acts

9. Logic components in electric circuits

14. Travel lead-in to "méxico"

15. Aching

16. Aches

17. Invented something, say

18. Aid in evaluating some calls

20. It's been a long time

21. "Didn't we just say goodbye?"

22. Trees whose nuts and leaves are toxic to humans

24. Unrestricted, in a way, in brief

25. ___ teeth (proverbial rarity)

26. Running things

30. Like the ingredients in a French chef's mirepoix

32. Classic potluck dish

34. Take on

35. Tony-winning actress Stroker

36. Unmanned NASA craft

37. Places for intertidal ecosystems

39. Bass drum attachment

40. Result of keeping a lid on too long?

41. Push-up targets, informally

42. Sites with clamps and curettes, for short

43. Screens that stream

47. "Hole-sale" outlets?

50. "___ Short Day" ("Wicked" song)

51. Lodging option for a trip with extended family

52. Eye part whose name shares the same etymological root as a throat part

53. Liqueur herb

54. "Happier Than ___" (Billie Eilish hit)

55. They've split

56. Targets of some Audubon cameras

57. Freshness

58. Poses

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2. Macronutrient group?

3. Cover-up in an old detective film?

4. Ground cover

5. Pieces of writing from the French for "try"

6. Opposite of agitato, in music

7. Grasps, informally

8. Some hedge shrubs

9. They're at least 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce

10. Common fix for a prolbem?

11. Alvin and the Chipmunks, e.g.

12. The Kynge's College of Our Ladye of ___ besyde Windesore

13. Grp. of nine, divided in three?

19. Juliet, Ophelia and Desdemona, to an astronomer

21. Take some liberties

23. Monitors for accuracy, just because

26. Goddess referenced in "Aida"

27. Cordless heaters that you might order cords for?

28. Third-largest of Italy's islands, after Sicily and Sardinia

29. It might wind up near a tackle box

31. "Any ___?"

32. Part of a hand

33. Brewer's barrelful

38. Ovens for hops

41. Pentagon ___ (subject of a 1971 Supreme Court ruling)

43. Hindu god with three eyes

44. Specks of dust

45. Kind of sweater

46. Parking spots?

47. Finish line?

48. Eponym of the company that marketed the first escalator

49. Doesn't settle, say

51. World's largest ethnic group

52. Land that goes from coast to coast, in brief

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