Familiar narrative device Crossword Clue

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Familiar narrative device Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

NARRATIVE (noun)
1. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
NARRATIVE (adjective)
1. consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story
FAMILIAR (adjective)
1. (usually followed by `with’) well informed about or knowing thoroughly
2. having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship
FAMILIAR (noun)
1. a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
2. a friend who is frequently in the company of another

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Across

1. Where Mongolia is

5. Scaredy-cat

9. Leafs (through)

14. Album for which Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize

15. Berry at a smoothie shop

16. Company behind the game Pong

17. Mentally pooped

20. 1960s service site, informally

21. Common injury site for a basketball player, informally

22. Thick, as plant growth

23. Deliberately give instruction in a way that targets an exam

28. Commercial that may come with a jingle

29. Took a chair

30. Eager

31. Hair parter

34. Continue a subscription

38. Barely passing grade

39. Decade of W.W. II ... or a homophonic hint to 17-, 23-, 50- and 57-Across

41. Around 18, typically, for a high school graduate

42. Sometimes-floral organic compound

44. Draped Indian garment

45. ___-X (computer command to cut text)

46. Crosses (out)

48. Conjures up, say

50. "... if i'm being honest"

54. Cook, in a way, as ahi tuna

55. Opposite of 'neath

56. Fools' mo.

57. "A fight requires more than one person"

63. "I'm available to help"

64. Modern note-taking aid

65. Plant in a marsh

66. Spanish babies

67. What a paper airplane icon may indicate

68. Thing in a grove

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Down

1. Big letters in home security

2. ___ Paulo Brazil

3. Comment that might follow "None for me, thanks"

4. Relief for an upset stomach

5. Simple two-player card game

6. Drink cooler

7. Angry with

8. Throw from a mound

9. Butter square

10. Any Olympian

11. First name of Julius Caesar

12. Artist Max

13. Worshiper in a turban

18. Texter's qualifier

19. Cries in a fútbol stadium

23. Barter

24. Roof overhangs

25. It may have a hard or soft shell

26. Things indicated by squiggly lines in cartoons

27. Paves the way?

32. N.Y.C. subway letters

33. Hardwood whose bark is sometimes used as paper

35. Leader of an 1831 revolt against slavery

36. Spearfishing bird

37. People of SW Britain

39. Without charge

40. The Emerald Isle

43. Like skydiving or cliff-diving

45. Dashboard or bumper

47. Place to put a coin

49. Coup d'___

50. Joke with

51. Like some wine barrels

52. ___ and Clark

54. Leave dumbfounded

58. French possessive

59. Catch some rays

60. Bizarre

61. "Golly!"

62. Poetic tribute

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