"The ___ thickens" Crossword Clue

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"The ___ thickens" Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. make a plat of
2. make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
(noun)
1. a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
2. a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation

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Across

1. ABBA song with the lyric The love you gave me nothing else can save me

4. "Old MacDonald ___ a farm..."

7. Bullets, informally

11. Thanksgiving, e.g. (Abbr.)

12. Shakespeare's "Much ___ About Nothing"

13. Bear's home

14. "Bel Canto" novelist Patchett

15. Tattered cloth

16. Crocodile in Bernard Waber childrens books

17. Novel by 28-Across adapted as a film starring Paul Newman (2 wds.)

20. William Faulkner's "As I ___ Dying"

21. Back muscle, familiarly

24. Chinese-born architect I.M. ___

25. Six-legged picnic pest

28. American novelist and short story writer who wrote 17-Across, 36-Across, and "Chances Are ... " (2 wds.)

31. Laugh syllable

32. Amy, to Meg and Beth in "Little Women," for short

33. Trade

34. Source of quick cash

35. Many a poem by Keats

36. Novel by 28-Across adapted as an HBO miniseries starring Paul Newman (2 wds.)

41. Common fruit in a fruit basket

42. World Series month: abbr.

43. Untruth

44. Muppet with a goldfish named Dorothy

45. ___-Hulk (green superheroine)

46. Harper Lee's home state (Abbr.)

47. Agent Jack of Tom Clancy novels

48. Long, long, long time

49. Marcie's title for Peppermint Patty

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Down

1. Spider-man co-creator ___ Lee

2. "That's terrible!" 2 wds.

3. Beachgoer's skin protection

4. The ___ Boys (fictional detectives)

5. Robert Newton Peck's "___ No Pigs Would Die" (2 wds.)

6. Vehicles in many Jack London stories (2 wds.)

7. Divide into shares

8. Deli spread, for short

9. "The ___ on the Floss" (George Eliot novel)

10. "Portlandia" setting (Abbr.)

18. Inauguration Day pledge

19. "Vanity ___" (William Thackeray novel)

22. Be nosy

23. Actress Lucy who voices Master Viper in the Kung Fu Panda films

24. Pale yellow flower

25. In addition to (3 wds.)

26. Hush-hush government org. (Abbr.)

27. Beyoncé's "Love On ___"

29. Italian wine region

30. Federal agency concerned with food safety (Abbr.)

34. Flo's garb in Progressive Insurance ads

35. More than occasionally

36. Wriggly

37. Llama Llama Misses __: rhyming book by Anna Dewdney

38. Empty hallway sound

39. Actress Taylor of "Six Feet Under"

40. Cook fast as tuna

41. "As ___ your instructions"

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