VERB: "to criticize in a pointed or witty manner" Crossword Clue

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VERB: "to criticize in a pointed or witty manner" Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the activeness of an energetic personality
2. a brief high-pitched buzzing or humming sound

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

POINTED (adjective)
1. direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant
2. having a point
MANNER (noun)
1. a way of acting or behaving
2. how something is done or how it happens

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Across

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5. Potato, amusingly

9. Ending for ant- or syn-

10. PHRASE: "used to say that a number, amount, etc., is not exact"

11. Johnny of "21 Jump Street"

12. VERB: "to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing"

13. NOUN: "a glowing fragment (as of coal) from a fire"

15. Quite a way away

17. Molecule parts

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22. NOUN: "the [line] in a plane Cartesian coordinate system parallel to which abscissas are measured"

23. Number of years

24. NOUN: "a pamphlet or leaflet of political or religious propaganda"

26. NOUN: "extent or range of vision"

31. Kournikova on courts

32. Fully enthused

33. NOUN: "a woman of refinement and gentle manners"

34. VERB: "to cut with a sickle...[or] scythe"

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Down

1. It's based at the Pentagon

2. "First thing is..."

3. VERB: "to [stretch] (something, such as a body part) beyond the normal range of motion"

4. Important alarm setting to get right

5. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "township adjoining southwestern Johannesburg in the province of Gauteng in the northeastern part of the Republic of South Africa"

6. NOUN: "a right or privilege"

7. ABBREVIATION: "country (a federal republic)...capital Washington"

8. Johnson or Cheadle

14. NOUN: "a tropical American tree...of the silk-cotton family with extremely light strong wood used especially for floats"

15. VERB: "to make something whole or able to work properly again"

16. Org. mentioned on toothpaste tubes

18. NOUN: "a cylindrical drinking cup"

19. "Told ya!"

21. NOUN: "a designated route along which [planes] fly"

25. NOUN: "the ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution"

26. Kilmer who played Jim Morrison

27. ___ bind (troubled)

29. Vardalos at lots of Greek weddings

30. NOUN: "[economics stat]"

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