7 Little Dropquotes
Folks in Valentine’s Day Town love to recycle words. They’ll sift through discarded drafts by well-known authors to inspire their new compositions.
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| Robot’s mouthful? | |
| Ends of days | |
| Horse-drawn taxi | |
| Blood-red pigment | |
| Encroach or bother, with “upon” | |
| Like a dancer’s body | |
| Capable of independent movement | |
| Lioness’s interspecies partner, to Pliny | |
| Person w/ class | |
| No longer hungry | |
| ____ symbol, like a Porsche | |
| HBO comedy | |
| Entirely | |
| Bark |
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| Lit. compendium | |
| Campus authority | |
| Deafened by loud noise (var.) | |
| Performs, to the Bard | |
| Coil around | |
| Belch, scientifically | |
| Heraldry having convex semicircular projections | |
| Ready-made wooden building materials made en masse | |
| Units of measure in quantitative verse | |
| Unpopular thermometer type | |
| Contains sulfur: Prefix | |
| Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, e.g. |
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| Merrily We Roll ____ | |
| He played Heymann in The Old Fox | |
| Hebrew letter | |
| Word for claptrap named for a North Carolina county | |
| Maryland Stadium, previously | |
| French knight (abbr.) | |
| Old hag | |
| Annoying insect | |
| LOL | |
| Surname of polymath who invented the soma cube | |
| There’s a famous oval one | |
| Retirement income | |
| “No more, please” | |
| Surname of Assistant Manager for Burnley Clarets |
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| Shakespeare’s works commonly had five of these | |
| Like a good soufflé | |
| Cat Cora, e.g. | |
| ____ Tower, in San Francisco | |
| Besoot, in Britain | |
| Dolphin on Genesis | |
| Fox hunter’s cry | |
| Peruvian monetary unit, formerly | |
| Namesake fitness app from Lars von Saldern’s company | |
| Celestial balance | |
| Officially recognized for the record, such as an absence | |
| Floor seating area in a Broadway theater (abbr.) | |
| Pepé Le Pew, for one (colloq.) | |
| Fried breads from Odisha | |
| 2018’s “You Know What’s Missing” suggestion |
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| Keyboard modifier (abbr.) | |
| “You’re ____ it wrong!” | |
| Dermal redness caused by inflammation | |
| Smoothed, with “out” | |
| Borough of Dortmund east of Mengede | |
| Divorced duo | |
| Under a roof, like some pools | |
| Brick of precious metal | |
| Chant with little variation in pitch | |
| Sister of Set | |
| Draco, to the Malfoys | |
| Legalese adverb | |
| Italian operas by Puccini, Cilea or Mascagni? | |
| Dwell (arch.) or Akron radio station |
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| Premium for money exchange | |
| Placating | |
| Trickster of Navajo myth | |
| Voice an objection | |
| “There are liars and swearers ____ to beat the honest men” | |
| Leaves, stage left perhaps? | |
| Prepared a cake | |
| To ascribe (something unpleasant) | |
| Slender (arch.) | |
| Vanish magically, perhaps? | |
| Wobble around a secondary axis | |
| Observe again | |
| Some trigonometric functions | |
| Ropes to secure a boat to a dock, from behind (2 wd) | |
| Japanese straw with shellacked rice paper, for a hat | |
| Done with full knowledge |
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