Squashed circle Crossword Clue

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Squashed circle Crossword Answer

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(adjective)
1. rounded like an egg
(noun)
1. a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it

Hint 2: Clue Definition

CIRCLE (noun)
1. an unofficial association of people or groups
2. a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
CIRCLE (verb)
1. form or draw a circle around
2. move in a circular path above (someone or something)

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19. Baseball great Mel

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21. Coup d'___

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24. What an airplane seat belt goes across

26. "Everything Everywhere All at Once" actress Stephanie

27. “Well, are you ___ now?”

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33. Surveillance of a suspect

36. Straps for jockeys

37. Competition where people come hungry for victory?

39. Be a cast member of

40. Sources of affliction

41. Peaks of waves

43. “It’s the Hard-Knock Life” musical

44. Bottom edge of a skirt

45. “Do not insert swab into ___ canal” (cautionary line on Q-tip packaging)

47. Late-night coffee order, maybe

51. Carve in glass

53. Jotting down

57. COVID vaccine molecule

58. ___-making challenge (“Survivor” showdown in which flint and kindling are provided)

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63. Small part in a saxophone or a clarinet

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Down

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6. Alternatively

7. Long-running beef

8. Bryant who won an Oscar for the short film “Dear Basketball”

9. 1968 photo that depicts our planet appearing over the lunar horizon

10. Relatives of turkeys

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14. Respiratory organ for a fish

17. Bluish-green color

23. 'In other words . . .'

25. Birds seen in pear trees in some Christmas decorations

28. Ballpoint, e.g.

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32. Any of the singers of “Stayin’ Alive”

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35. Animated character

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39. Strongly desire

42. Did some karaoke

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49. "Rizzoli & Isles" actress Harmon

50. Observes Ramadan

52. Grasped

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55. “Just an ___” (“I’m spitballing here”)

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