Science-fiction franchise set partially on a desert planet Crossword Clue

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Science-fiction franchise set partially on a desert planet Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PARTIALLY (adverb)
1. to some extent; in some degree; not wholly
FRANCHISE (noun)
1. a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company’s goods or services in a particular area
2. a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
FRANCHISE (verb)
1. grant a franchise to

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Across

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11. Allowed

14. "Mi ___ es su ___"

15. "Not really an expert or anything, but that doesn't stop me!"

19. Break before classes

20. Attorney general before Garland

21. Ear coverings?

22. Mints named for their seal of approval from Good Housekeeping

23. Delivered

24. Company that named its rugby-union team Big Blue

25. Photo finish

28. Definitely not sudden

30. "Let me give it a spin?"

31. Abrasive presence in a kitchen, perhaps

32. A Kid Named ___ (breakthrough 2008 mixtape)

33. It's always positive

35. Royal who negotiated the Treaty of Picquigny, ending the Hundred Years' War

36. Broadcaster founded by a former New England Whalers employee

37. Repressed

41. Finds a way

42. How many rants are written

43. Term whose etymology, Thoreau believed, came from sainte-terre

44. Worthless stuff

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Down

1. College employees who might receive free room and board

2. The "A" of MoMA

3. ___ constrictor (nonvenomous snake)

4. With 29-Down, refrain from a 1976 hit by the Trammps

5. What a spy might gather, for short

9. Embellish as a resume

11. Source of a vaper's vapor, for short

12. Zilch

13. Lickety-split

16. Beauty's fairy-tale counterpart

17. Some little songbirds

18. Flubs

21. Dweller in a 14-Across, perhaps

22. Some strikers?

23. The ___ (2010s dramedy about a woman with melanoma)

25. Yields

26. Catch-22, e.g.

27. Close-up-magic pioneer Tony

29. See 4 Down

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34. Instapoetry pioneer

35. "Do You Hear the People Sing?" musical, for short

38. Stops on the way to the bar?

39. Components of some polytopes

40. Action figure?

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