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Happy April Fools'. First ones to solve win a prize.

Across
3. Black and white and flightless.
4. "Eighty-eights."
6. A water Pokemon.
7. German snow.
9. A curving trajectory.
10. The turning point in a novel.
12. Blood fluids.
14. A nude suit.
15. Saintly quality.
17. Something mysterious and puzzling.
19. Now inedible.
20. Lounge in the tub.
21. Betting figures.
Down
1. Wolf down.
2. Like an eagle's vision.
5. Put a gag order on.
7. Professor and a tree.
8. Pilot's emergency button.
11. Dealer of hats and notions.
13. "Go on..."
16. Kitten's cry.
18. Showed signs of life.

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[ It takes her a moment, then she decides to go for a stretch on this one. This is definitely more of a cultural thing considering.. ]

Bore.

Saintly is sometimes used to describe something amazing or positive, quality is another word for caliber, caliber is a measurement of the diameter of a bore.

[ You know guns when everything is also a gun. ]

Oh ho. I'm adoring the creativity behind that answer but that sadly wasn't it.

[ Daaaamn. Too far off the books. Okay. Try something a little closer. Saintly could just mean quality quality, which would be like.. ]

Airs..?

Incorrect.

[ She doesn't want to give up but also she really can't think of another answer. ]

Can I have a secondary hint since my previous answers fit the bill but were not the most correct answer?

I usually don't give those.

"A distinct atmosphere."

I take it you usually don't have multiple possible answers either.

[ It takes her a while. She's scanning through the dictionary and writing down any words that could possibly fit what she wants. And then she hits aura toward the end of the A section and she stares at the definition before firmly planting her face in the book. UHG.

It's definitely a good 30 minutes before she comes back with a response since she's absolutely putting the work in to find it though. ]

Just so we're clear, "aura" is something completely different in my world and that's the only reason I didn't get it.

My answers are the correct ones.

I know. This crossword was not created with that fact in mind. So close too.

I'm still counting it as a victory because despite having appropriate and creative answers that didn't initially fit the bill, I still came to the correct one through research and learning.

Even if it wasn't the "perfect" answer the first time.

[ What? Learning is something she values very highly. ]

An admirable way of viewing things. This must be why people are fond of you.

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