Picky ___ (tough person to cook for) Crossword Clue

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Picky ___ (tough person to cook for) Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. someone who consumes food for nourishment
2. any green goods that are good to eat

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

TOUGH (adjective)
1. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
2. very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
TOUGH (noun)
1. someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
2. an aggressive and violent young criminal
PERSON (noun)
1. a human being
2. a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party

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Across

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14. ADJECTIVE: "morally reprehensible"

15. "Goodbye, ___ Jean" (Elton John lyric)

16. When repeated, an island in the Pacific

17. Famed Persian poet

18. NOUN: "a widely cultivated Asian herbaceous plant (Allium cepa) of the amaryllis family that has a pungent edible bulb"

19. Be awesome

20. NOUN PHRASE: "a [critical point] on whose outcome much or everything depends"

23. Tina of "30 Rock" fame

24. VERB: "to move by a quick springy leap or in a series of leaps"

25. IDIOM: "used to say that one understands what someone is talking about because one has had the same or a similar experience"

32. NOUN: "one who betrays under the guise of friendship"

33. For two, in Toulouse

34. VERB: "to move, act, or function with speed and vigor"

36. Take ___ view of (find objectionable)

37. Superfans

38. Prefix meaning 'both'

39. Thesaurus entry (Abbr.)

40. Pitch ___ (prepare sleeping quarters, when camping)

41. ___ lights (they illuminate movie sets)

42. NOUN: "a [judicial proceeding] characterized by irresponsible, unauthorized, or irregular status or procedures"

45. Ending for chariot or cannon

46. Tree with oval leaves

47. NOUN: "a [survey] for obtaining statistically useful or personal information from individuals"

54. Embankment

55. Different ones, to Dominicans

56. Punishment for skipping school, maybe

58. Train travel

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60. Busying oneself with

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62. Pizzazz

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2. Latin for "egg"

3. NOUN: "a large luxurious often chauffeur-driven sedan that usually has a glass partition separating the driver's seat from the passenger compartment"

4. NOUN: "deceptive nonsense"

5. Poet signing a poem as "Unsigned," e.g.

6. Typesetter's option

7. Cold, to Colombians

8. "___ the opinion that..."

9. ADJECTIVE: "marked by yellow coloration"

10. Rudely curt

11. INTERJECTION: "used to express joy, approval, or excited enthusiasm"

12. St. Louis attraction

13. NOUN: "a large long-haired wild or domesticated ox of Tibet and adjacent elevated parts of central Asia"

21. Thin fish

22. NOUN: "a cooked mixture of flour and fat used as a thickening agent in a soup or a sauce"

25. Alan in "Firefly" and "Suburgatory"

26. Minneapolis suburb

28. "A Bell for ___" (John Hersey book)

29. ___ box (Japanese meal container)

30. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "formerly Smyrna...city and port on an inlet of the Aegean Sea in Western Turkey...population 3,100,000"

31. "Seven Years in ___" (Brad Pitt movie)

32. German words of agreement

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37. PHRASAL VERB: "to begin to move toward a particular place or in a particular direction"

38. Word before can or foil

40. A long time

41. ___ nut (soft drink source)

43. NOUN: "a small slender usually steel instrument that has an eye for thread or surgical sutures at one end and that is used for sewing"

44. VERB: "to suppress or delete as objectionable"

47. Dock

48. NOUN: "a part of a school course focusing on a central theme"

49. Slanted type of type (abbr.)

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51. Phrase of denial

52. One of the weapons in the game Clue

53. Suffix with palm

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57. NOUN: "a solemn promise or assertion"

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