"Diet" for the defeated Crossword Clue

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"Diet" for the defeated Crossword Answer

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DEFEATED (noun)
1. people who are defeated
DEFEATED (adjective)
1. disappointingly unsuccessful
2. beaten or overcome; not victorious
DIET (noun)
1. the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
2. a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)
DIET (verb)
1. eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight
2. follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons

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Across

1. Shopper's thrill

6. Clock part

9. Brand

14. ___ Lakshmi, host of TV's "Taste the Nation"

19. Some computer-generated images nowadays

20. The masses

22. "Full steam ___!"

23. "Omigod, omigod, jackpot!"?

25. Some college students, quaintly

26. Space heater?

27. __ fly

28. Smart-alecky

29. FaceTime alternative

30. 'Eww!'

32. Instruments with large bells

35. Great Lakes mnemonic

38. Org. whose employees wear badges

40. Atlantis and others

42. Hawkish

44. Bad thing to be caught in

45. Tempest in a teapot?

48. Oh-so-precious

50. Journalists quote them

51. Oniony vegetables

52. Body of water that was once the world's fourth-largest lake

55. Good signs in stock reports

56. Challah bread feature

58. Religious gymgoer on leg day?

60. Souvenir from the Sea of Tranquillity, say

63. Typical Passover mo.

64. Many clay relics

65. Not just mine

66. Kanga's kiddo

67. Whimsically imaginative, as writing

70. Sound from some freshly cleaned floors?

75. Oozes

76. Heighten

77. Yo-yo-like toy with a devilish-sounding name

78. '___ Mia!'

80. Michael Jordan's nickname, with "His"

82. Trash

83. Money under the mattress, e.g.?

88. Meyer who directed 1965's "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"

89. Cialis alternative

90. Backslid, say

93. Word before or after "down"

94. Pasta often cut at an angle

95. Hazard cleanup, in brief

96. Hindu honorifics

98. Weapon whose name is an acronym

100. '___ tell . . .'

103. Legendary bird

105. Number of jurors who originally vote "Not guilty" in "12 Angry Men"

106. Mean little suckers?

107. Repeat something clever, as parrots might?

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114. Tied up

115. Facebook has more than three billion of them

116. Aspirations

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118. Flies out of sight

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1. Fresh

2. Excites … or annoys

3. Vulgarity

4. Poet's palindromic preposition

5. Midflight announcements, for short

6. Count seen in the breakfast aisle

7. Cry of cringe

8. Animated file type

9. Actress Singer of "Footloose"

10. Elevs.

11. Deep, dark ocean caverns

12. Equivalent of a billion years, in geology

13. Bad thing to be caught in

14. Cigarette purchases

15. Nautical greeting

16. Scrumptious but not-so-healthful carnival snacks

17. Brought in big bucks

18. Elements of pay-per-click campaigns

21. Punching sounds in the comics

24. Coffee shop order

29. Feudal worker

31. In a big way

33. Pot growers?

34. Classifies

36. Mice hunters

37. Great Leap Forward leader

39. Bitter brews, for short

41. Lock of hair

42. Something strapped for cash?

43. Go-kart, e.g.

44. Beaten at ___ own game

46. Command+Q, on a Mac

47. Family group

48. Writing cliché

49. Style sported by Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain

52. Forehead-slapping shouts

53. Outfit

54. Mysterious qualities

56. Yawning, say

57. Hollywood's Portia de ___

59. Raggedy doll

60. Make faces for a camera

61. Barbecue bits

62. Gorilla who famously learned sign language

65. "If I had to guess …"

68. They're around for the long haul

69. Scorch

70. More refined

71. Loma ___, Calif.

72. Monthly util. bill

73. Host of the 2022 World Cup

74. Horseshoe-shaped pipe fasteners

76. Boat equipment for removing water on board

78. Car sticker no.

79. Parasailing, water polo, etc.

80. "Watchmen" writer Moore

81. What many freelancers work on

84. Many a road tripper, informally

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86. They make sounds when they're tickled

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92. What Sidney Poitier's character famously came to, in a 1967 film

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95. Van ___ (beard type)

97. Germs

99. Toffee candy bar

101. Broccoli ___

102. Leatherworking tools

104. Cartoon collector's collection, maybe

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109. Slack or Zoom

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