Popular pet since the 1980s Crossword Clue

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(verb)
1. search and discover through persistent investigation
2. hound or harry relentlessly
(noun)
1. musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
2. domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

1980S (noun)
1. the decade from 1980 to 1989
POPULAR (adjective)
1. representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large
2. (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)

More Daily Beast Crossword (2/25/2025) Answers

Across

1. "___ Like Makin' Love" (1974 #1 hit for 13-Across)

5. ___ Lund (Ingrid Bergman's role in "Casablanca")

9. Rubik's Cube creator ___ Rubik

10. "The Love Boat" role for Ted Lange

11. Nutritionist's amts.

12. See 13-Across

13. With 12-Across: Singer who passed away yesterday at the age of 88...which is also the number of keys on a piano, an instrument she was so skilled at that that she earned a piano scholarship to Howard University for it at age 15

15. Dessert that means "lightning" in French

16. Genre similar to rocksteady

19. "The Waste Land" poet's initials

20. Sneaky character traits

22. "___ The Love?" (1972 #5 hit for 13-Across and Donny Hathaway)

23. "Hard ___ to Break" (Chicago hit of 1984)

26. Low-carb diet

27. Ways out

28. "The First Time ___ I Saw Your Face" (#1 hit for 13-Across in 1972)

29. Green or Rogen

30. Shoulder muscle, casually

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Down

2. Frequent lifesavers, briefly

3. Make possible

4. ___ step (fall behind the others)

5. Fisher whose voice is heard in the 2025 animated comedy "Dog-Man"

6. Baseball's Angels, on scoreboards

7. ___ fly (baseball play)

8. "So sorry to hear that!"

10. "Assuming we're able to verify that..."

14. Legal power to make a movie

16. LP holder

17. Harvey in "The Piano" and "Pulp Fiction"

18. Distribute into groups

21. Annoyed

22. "Killing Me Softly ___ His Song" (1973 #1 hit for 13-Across)

23. "___ All That" (2021 rom-com)

24. "The Shining" prop

25. Comedian's series of jokes

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