Smartphone predecessor: Abbr. Crossword Clue

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Smartphone predecessor: Abbr. Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc.

Hint 2: Clue Definition

PREDECESSOR (noun)
1. something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
2. one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)

Hint 3: Anagram

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20. Taking home

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23. Somme summers

25. “That offer is laughable”

26. Arteries’ counterparts

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31. Potentate

33. Sound of the Northwest

35. Citation phrase

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43. Settled as a debt

44. 'However,' in a text

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49. Money-transfer app often used as a verb

50. Over there quaintly

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55. Family-friendly features

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Down

2. Asset for a birder, fittingly

3. Natural border on a mountain

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5. Sticker applied by a boxer

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9. Style

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12. Small hardware connector

14. Greta who starred in “Past Lives”

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21. Therapeutic technique used in psychodrama to encourage empathy

22. Some bootlegged media

24. Saturate

27. Palindromic bread

29. Word with suction or sippy

32. Noisy weather events, for short

34. It’s often clear and sticky

36. Stick in a lock

38. What whistles may be attached to

39. Delays

40. Fusses

42. Trip around a track

44. One at a keyboard

45. Place in a real bind?

46. In the database

48. “I’m dying of suspense!”

51. Floppy __

53. Played (with)

56. [Error not mine]

58. Volcano said to be the site of Hephaestus’ forge

61. Fate

62. Concert-venue cheer

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