- - The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they?
- - Traditional stories or legends
- - Stories about anything in my thoughts
- - Legends or fables
- - Tales about the gods, for example
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- - Speaker of the Latin quote hidden in the answers to the starred clues ... and the English-language quote hidden in the answers to the double-starred clues
- - Play and tragedy by William Shakespeare based on events from Roman history that has characters like Brutus and Mark Antony: 2 wds.
- - Crosser of the Rubicon, 49 BC
- - Ancient leader whose boast is hidden in 20-, 28- and 49-Across
- - Attributed speaker of the circled words
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- - 'Seriously?!' … or what one might ask of the answers to starred clues in this puzzle?
- - Shocked question
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- - TV show host Sajak who may say the phrase found in the starred clues of this puzzle
- - First name of the singer of Love is a Battlefield
- - Singer Benatar who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022
- - Sajak or Benatar
- - postman ---, children's tv character
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- - Places to return library materials and a hint to how the authors in four Down clues help complete the answers to the starred clues
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- - Prefix for the answers to starred clues, and word needed for those clues to make sense
- - Person on the bench
- - type of vessel that went missing in june 2023 ... and is missing in five answers in this puzzle
- - temporary player, for short
- - follow on youtube, for short
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- - Straight to the point … or, homophonically, what this answer is relative to this puzzle?
- - Not left out at the start being outspoken
- - Straight-talking banker? Correct
- - Straight to the point
- - Going straight to the point.
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- - Come down in buckets; also, when applied in sequence to the answers to starred clues, this puzzle's theme
- - Verbally control pets and come down heavily
- - new tags in dad's can or bucket
- - gunners with popular pets getting bucket down
- - Really come down, as illustrated by hidden words in six starred answers
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- - H.G. Wells classic, and a hint to this puzzle's theme found in the answers to starred clues
- - he was nothing to look at
- - H. G. Wells novel ... with a hint to this puzzle's circled words
- - 1897 novel subtitled "A Grotesque Romance"
- - 1933 film in which Claude Raines is seen ... and not seen?
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- - 1968 Troggs Top 10 hit, and a hint to the hidden puzzle theme in the answers to starred clues
- - huge hit single in 1994 for band from clydebank
- - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" theme song, and a hint to the words that bookend the starred entries
- - "Mary Tyler Moore" theme
- - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" theme song, and a hint to what 17-, 27- and 48-Across have in common
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