Inspiration for the “Spaceballs” character Princess Vespa Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

CHARACTER (noun)
1. a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person’s qualifications and dependability
2. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
CHARACTER (verb)
1. engrave or inscribe characters on
INSPIRATION (noun)
1. a product of your creative thinking and work
2. the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing

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Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
ILEA

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15. Dulling, in a way

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18. Supporters of people with minor roles?

19. Bivouacs

21. O’Brien’s predecessor and successor

22. "Gee, ya think?"

23. First letter of the Arabic alphabet

25. Daily practice

29. Maudlin

31. "Mercy!"

33. Zero

34. First name of the architect who designed the Gateway Arch

35. “Artaxerxes” composer Thomas

36. Author of the 2017 novel “Less”

41. Without improvements

42. Workout unit

43. Ice Age heavyweight

45. Appealed to Bo Peep, say

47. Richard who co-founded the eighteenth-century periodical The Spectator

48. Blunder

50. Agcy. with a “Challenge America” grant program

52. Acct. protector

54. Donor’s duty

56. Hot wheels?

60. Fine Japanese porcelain

61. Jejune

62. Composer León who was the first Latin American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for music

63. Solo

64. They may be essential

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Down

1. Extruded, as potatoes

2. “___, the Magician” (movement of Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”)

3. What’s in store?

4. Prime draft status

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6. Choir contingent

7. Hill builder

8. Canaanite god worshipped by Jezebel

9. Lab mouse in a Daniel Keyes story

10. Out-of-the-way place

11. "That," in Madrid

12. Objective

13. Lenovos or Acers, e.g.

16. Bottled spirits

20. Layer

24. On the lam

26. Hardly contrite

27. Troublesome spots

28. Unwelcome glance

30. Forbidding standard at sea

32. Chapters

34. Brand that once used the slogan “Happy Motoring”

36. Charity

37. Spruced up

38. Begin to tackle

39. Tags, e.g.

44. Bygone

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46. Sugar substitute?

49. Shrek and Fiona’s triplets, for three

51. Kind of symmetry

53. Year in Septimius Severus’ reign

55. Ness, e.g.

56. Familial term of endearment

57. It’s a blast to work with

58. “Children ___ Lesser God” (1986 film)

59. '___ good!'

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