Empire that inspired “The Emperor’s New Groove” Crossword Clue

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Empire that inspired “The Emperor’s New Groove” Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
2. a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

EMPEROR (noun)
1. large richly colored butterfly
2. large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings
INSPIRED (adjective)
1. being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods

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26. Eponymous sandwich made with peanut butter, bananas, and bacon

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31. Provocative posts

32. Signature role for Leontyne Price

33. Disciple

34. Shot blocker?

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39. Roofer’s rock

41. Devoted-homemaker archetype of the TikTok era

42. Those: Sp

43. Features of 2-Down

44. One-sided and pseudo-intimate, like a listener’s relationship to a podcast host

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55. Work in concert

56. Accompany

57. Comic con?

58. Put on, in a way

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Down

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5. Title character of a Melville short story

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27. Ancient marketplaces

28. Share with, as a story

30. Depletes

31. Threadbare garments

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35. There are three hundred and eighty-eight of them in “Infinite Jest”

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38. Terrible joke

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45. Frenziedly

47. Awestruck

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54. Avg.

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