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Giant computer of the 1940s (5)

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ENIAC

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Chair designer Charles (5)

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EAMES

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Iberian river (4)

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EBRO

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Trick-taking game that’s French for “discarded” (6)

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ECARTE

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Dazzling display (5)

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ECLAT

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United Christendom movement (9)

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ECUMENISM

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“In Search of Myself and Other Children” author LeShan (3)

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EDA

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Cause of some swelling (5)

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EDEMA

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Biblical spot where the Tigris and Euphrates are said to have originated (4)

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EDEN

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Painter Degas (5)

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EDGAR

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Singer Brickell (4)

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EDIE

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Irish novelist O’Brien (4)

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EDNA

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Son of Eliel Saarinen (4)

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EERO

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Chanel fragrance with a French name (7)

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EGOISTE

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Former Israeli prime minister ___ Barak (4)

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EHUD

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Treacherous peak in the Alps (5)

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EIGER

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Longtime Cadillac model discontinued in the early aughts (8)

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ELDORADO

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Horror director Roth (3)

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ELI

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Marlon’s director in “On the Waterfront” (4)

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ELIA

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Bridal-couture designer Saab (4)

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ELIE

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Root who won the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize (5)

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ELIHU

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Old Testament prophet (6)

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ELISHA

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Otis of elevator fame (6)

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ELISHA

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Lead role in “My Fair Lady” (5)

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ELIZA

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Africa’s first elected female head of state (5)
ELLEN
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Dock ___, pitcher who claimed to have thrown a no-hitter on LSD in 1970 (5)
ELLIS
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“The Adding Machine” playwright (9)
ELMERRICE
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Novelist Leonard (6)
ELMORE
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Arpad ___, creator of an eponymous chess rating system (3)
ELO
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Kind of rating system in chess (3)
ELO
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Judy Jetson’s brother (5)
ELROY
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Captain von Trapp’s betrothed, in “The Sound of Music” (4)
ELSA
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Fisher of “Eighth Grade” (5)
ELSIE
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Hamlet setting (8)
ELSINORE
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Isle of ___ (historic region of England) (3)
ELY
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Paris’s ___ Palace (6)
ELYSEE
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Bygone record label (3)
EMI
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Flask-famous chemist Erlenmeyer (4)
EMIL
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Fashion designed Pucci (6)
EMILIO
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Los Angeles neighborhood near Reseda (6)
ENCINO
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Prefix with carp (4)
ENDO
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Part of a cello or double-bass (6)
ENDPIN
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Samantha’s mother on “Bewitched” (6)
ENDORA
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Ideal beta tester (7)
ENDUSER
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Organic compound essential to “golden oldies” (4)
ENOL
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___ Holmes, Netflix character played by Millie Bobby Brown (5)
ENOLA
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Single-chapter Book of Mormon book (4)
ENOS
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First, and so far only, chimpanzee to orbit Earth (4)
ENOS
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Biblical son of Seth (4)
ENOS
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Chess move with a French name (9)
ENPASSANT
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Eve who wrote “The Vagina Monologues” (6)
ENSLER
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Belgian Surrealist painter James (5)
ENSOR
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Mike who served as a Wyoming senator from 1997 to 2021 (4)
ENZI
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English Derby town (5)
EPSON
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Epoch when modern mammals arose (6)
EOCENE
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Alternative to Clearblue or First Response (3)
EPT
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Kathryn who was NBC’s Detective Alexandra Eames (4)
ERBE
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Hungarian mathematician known for collborating (5)
ERDOS
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Comedian Andre with a self-named Adult Swim show (4)
ERIC
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___ Jennings (sole German to win the Academy Award for Best Actor) (4)
ERIL
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Dwarf planet with the moon Dysnomia (4)
ERIS
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Schubert’s “The ___ King” (3)
ERL
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___ Stanley Gardner (creator of Perry Mason) (4)
ERLE
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2022 Nobel laureate in literature who was congratulated by President Macron (6)
ERNAUX
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High-flying Flynn (5)
ERROL
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Hebrides language (4)
ERSE
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Popular Art Deco lithographs (5)
ERTES
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Some Art Deco works (5)
ERTES
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First name in quantum physics (5)
ERWIN
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Bill, player of Sid Fields of “Seinfeld” (5)
ERWIN
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Tikkanen with five Stanley Cups (3)
ESA
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In ___ (actually) (4)
ESSE
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Susie of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Broad City” (6)
ESSMAN
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Sister in the pop group Haim (4)
ESTE
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270 degrees from sur (4)
ESTE
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Seasons when Bastille Day celebrations occur (4)
ETES
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___ Hunt (Tom Cruise’s role in the “Mission: Impossible” films) (5)
ETHAN
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Hydrocarbon with the formula C2H4 (6)
ETHENE
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Early number? (5)
ETHER
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Sewing accessory (4)
ETUI
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Discontinued Mitsubishi sports sedan, informally (3)
EVO
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Former Bolivian day Morales (3)
EVO
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It’s got a big mouth (4)
EWER
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English river that (sadly) doesn’t intersect the Wye (3)
EXE
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Punk singer Cervenka whose first husband was named “John Doe” (5)
EXENE