Happen next Crossword Clue

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Happen next Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

HAPPEN (verb)
1. come upon, as if by accident; meet with
2. come into being; become reality
NEXT (adjective)
1. immediately following in time or order
2. (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving

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9. Lock of hair

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15. King Kong, e.g.

16. Pixar robot

17. Comedian Wyatt

18. Word with "pal" or "name"

20. *Guess

23. Sloth, but not koala

24. Artist Yoko

25. *What?

31. Service offered by the Vatican

35. Colombian cornmeal cakes

36. Street ___

38. Nuke in microwave

39. Animal similar to a buffalo

40. Olympian Bird

41. Inviting words on a Wonderland cake

43. Olympian Sunisa

44. Doe or buck

46. "Challenge accepted!"

47. "Actin' like you're somebody ___, gets me frustrated" (Avril Lavigne lyric)

49. *Chicken

51. Mrs., in Spanish

53. Tolkien tree creature

54. *Butt

62. French painter Claude

63. "There ___ to be another way"

64. "Birds of Prey" performer Perez

66. Like Rome's Colosseum vis-a-vis Vegas' Colosseum

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68. Vote into office

69. Replay effect

70. Variant of rummy

71. Working-from-home purchases

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Down

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2. Night before a big day

3. Storage containers

4. State with the first KFC franchise

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6. TV studio session

7. Ready for business

8. Destination for a night out?

9. Typical middle schooler, age-wise

10. "So, that came out of nowhere . . ."

11. Anna's sister in "Frozen"

12. Fail to articulate

13. Look for

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22. Refine, like skills

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26. She's got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty

27. Confirmations

28. NYSE debut

29. Upscale Honda brand

30. Wrath

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33. Ring-shaped Girl Scout cookie

34. Totally pooped

37. Totally pooped

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42. Painter Sherald

45. Name hidden in "awesomesauce"

46. Pre-Millennial group

48. Regard highly

50. That makes sense!

52. Back in style

54. Biotech crops

55. Laze around

56. Reverse

57. 1970s-inspired haircut

58. Nail treatment, for short

59. Deep-cover spy

60. Employs

61. "Dope!"

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