Period before starting more school Crossword Clue

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Period before starting more school Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

STARTING (noun)
1. a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
STARTING (adjective)
1. appropriate to the beginning or start of an event
2. (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear
PERIOD (noun)
1. an amount of time
2. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

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17. Thanksgiving boatful

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19. Nutritionist's plan

20. Main drag through Sin City

23. Fancy meeting you here!

24. Apply, as a new skill

25. Indigenous Southwestern people

28. Body part that can serve as a pencil holder

30. Delicious

31. Trireme implement

32. Valuable bit in a prospector's pan

37. Like sudokus with very few given digits, generally

38. "Nope, not for me"

39. Online "haha!"

40. Steep-walled canyon

41. Hoarse voice

42. Hockey player who typically plays the entire game

44. Explosive-sounding TV channel

45. Crow's call

46. Punk-inspired music genre

47. Minor disruption in the proceedings

49. [Their typo, not mine!]

51. Be a passenger

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58. "You have a point there"

60. Lake on Ohio’s northern border

61. Nine-member musical group

62. Lack of difficulty

63. Pimples

64. Like a lot

65. Amazed

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67. Water pitcher

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Down

1. ___-Saxon

2. Scroll read during a bat mitzvah ceremony

3. Overflowing (with)

4. Apportioned

5. Long stories

6. Wipe clean

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8. Track-and-field event with a 16-pound ball

9. British novelist Jones

10. Portable writing surface

11. Devoured

12. Spam spewer

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22. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of ___

26. Massive

27. Pick from the menu

29. Tiny hill-dweller

30. Bellow

32. Measurement around the waist

33. Resident of Muscat

34. Something that's beyond help

35. Luminesce

36. India's smallest state by area

37. What students abide by when they don't cheat

40. Precious stone

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45. Pool player's stick

48. Words to live by

49. Taking to court

50. Some frozen drinks

52. No need to remind me

53. Outdoor John?

54. 'Come in!'

56. Oceanic predator

57. "All ___ day's work"

58. Drink served by the Mad Hatter

59. Like the fish in poke

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