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Humour
Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel
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Across:
- 1: It sheds some light on a situation
- 5: Provides Americans and Northern Irish with a pension (abbr.)
- 8: Also known as the dwarf buffalo!
- 9: Lambast, search for gold, or like more than one gender
- 10: Useful for editors opposed to 12-across
- 12: Shortcut for a powerful group of editors often criticized as opaque
- 13: Shortcut to WP:AfD's "put up or shut up"
- 16: Prevents ropes on a ship from slip slidin' away
- 20: Shortcut that should not be confused with 12-across
- 21: Circlejerk?
- 22: Shortcut for communication via edit summary
- 23: 2013 film Star ____ Into Darkness
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- 1: NBA team once home to Kobe and Magic
- 2: Shortcut whose sisters include WP:POPCORN and formerly WP:MORDOR
- 3: Shortcut; alludes to the sysop's sceptre
- 4: The Earwig's is from hell
- 5: Cowboy's accessory for horse direction
- 6: It's on Simon & Garfunkel's shopping list, along with parsley and thyme
- 7: Shortcut whose sister is WP:AN3
- 11: In Minecraft, it creeps out the creepers
- 13: Shortcut: they rake in tens of thousands of views a day
- 14: The first step is to not do any
- 15: They cage the lungs
- 17: 12-across up
- 18: "It's just a number, it's just a number, it's just a number..."; or, shortcut to the senescent brigade
- 19: Shortcut to Wikipedia's preeminent hookers
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Green boxes: Shortcut to a warning not to climb this dressed as Spider-Man
Answers (spoilers for answers)
lamp.ssa
anoa.pan
liprouge
...screw
three...
fairlead
arb.orgy
sms.trek
green boxes: REICHSTAG
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