"Wait, I just thought of something!" Crossword Clue

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"Wait, I just thought of something!" Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. (music) melodic subject of a musical composition
2. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SOMETHING (noun)
1. An indeterminate or unknown event.
2. A substance or material thing, unknown indeterminate or not specified.
THOUGHT (noun)
1. a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
2. the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

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Across

1. Channel that broadcasts the WNBA

5. House party?

8. Bit concrete?

13. Step out of line, maybe?

16. Section of a sonata

17. Activity in which flying saucers are intercepted?

19. 'The Mindy Project' actor Barinholtz

20. Was indebted

21. Light courses

22. Jazzed

24. Archer's ex

25. "James, while John ___ ___ '___ ,' ___ ___ '___ ___'; '___ ___' ___ ___ a better effect on the teacher" (surprisingly grammatically correct sentence)

26. Like a sunset stroll along the Chao Phraya River, maybe

30. "Tempting—very tempting"

33. "Waiter! Waiter!"

34. Classic supervillain who rules with a steely grasp?

35. Radical equal-rights movement kick-started by the Stonewall riots

38. DoorDash figs.

39. One that acts on impulses?

40. Tidbit in many a TED-Ed video introduction

41. Reasons, slangily

43. Prefix with -suit or -sona

44. Opera destination?

45. Actor who has portrayed Hercule Poirot three times

49. Maíz con queso y crema

52. "___ me out ..."

53. The Simpson's bartender

54. "What a world!"

57. Now and again

58. Clapping before the show is done?

59. Searches for

60. ___ Goetia (Helluva Boss inspiration)

61. Fixes a spot of tee?

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Down

1. Put on, as a diamond chestplate

2. Pouts

3. Dog Man feline antagonist

4. Rapa ___

5. Dull

6. Ran a D&D campaign

7. Supergoop spec

8. Grammy-winning Grande

9. Have a moving experience in bed?

10. Nonbinary person, casually

12. Beans, anatomically

14. Stereotypical do for edgelords

15. Like gnathostomes

18. Lemon juicer

23. Hors d'oeuvre served with marinara sauce

24. TikTok personality Gray

26. Clanker, formally

27. Huntrix of KPop Demon Hunters, e.g.

28. "Why am ___ surprised?"

29. It can make you see red

30. Kicked off the pitch: abbr.

31. Prefix for -biography or -fiction

32. Collect, as souls

33. Boba joint with a snowman mascot

36. He's credited with saying, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"

37. They hold water

42. They don’t hold water

43. ___ Ferdinand (indie-rock band)

45. Sounds that real roadrunners do not, in fact, make

46. Blow away

47. Resort to name-calling, say

48. Supports

49. Long-lived Middle-earth denizens

50. Basketball journalist Zach

51. "Yeooowch!"

52. Position vied for on Succession

55. "Luther" singer

56. Rolls up, casually

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