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Opposites Attract

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  1. Hecatolite, as it's commonly known (9)
  2. Courtroom address (4, 5)
  3. Major American Revolutionary War battle site (6, 4)
  4. Voice of a certain Shinigami, in 2017 (6, 5)
  5. Where Saturday is the hardest day of the week (3, 4, 5, 9)
  6. (e), often (4, 2, 3, 5)

  • Black market items (10)
  • "Butt crack", anatomically (7, 5)
  • California city named after Frank E. Brown (6, 6)
  • Cascade caused by a high-energy decay in physics (8, 6)
  • Common advice given to college freshmen to help alleviate empty nest syndrome (4, 4, 6)
  • Entirely lacking illumination (5, 5)
  • Famous American screwball comedy (3, 4, 6)
  • Famous WW1 anti-war novel banned by Nazi Germany (3, 5, 2, 3, 7, 5)
  • Fieri's flavorful forte (10)
  • Follows a well-thought-out strategy (5, 4, 5, 5)
  • Football-themed term for someone criticizing choices with the benefit of hindsight (6, 7, 11)
  • HAHAHA-HAHAHAHAHA cartoon mad scientist from the '90s (7)
  • Having nothing to one's name (9)
  • Increase rapidly, like the population of an r-selected species (4, 13)
  • It takes a little over 8 minutes to reach us (8)
  • Large-scale agricultural producer (7, 4)
  • Means of transportation in BioShock (11)
  • "Oh come on, you've got to be kidding me" (3, 6, 3, 4)
  • Overarching set of regulations within which court cases are decided (5, 9)
  • Piece that creates friction to stop a wheel (5, 5)
  • Pitbull (6, 9)
  • Single by The Who, or "I'm not so gullible this time!" (4, 3, 6, 5)
  • Speeding up the decline of, in an idiom believed to come from the logging industry (7, 3, 5, 5)
  • Stop believing something is true (4, 4, 5, 2)
  • Tough ___ (female survivor of many hardships) (3, 5)
  • Unique code used for registering a copy of a computer program (8, 3)
  • Votes sent through the postal system, often (8, 7)
  • Wasn't good enough, as in a golf tournament (6, 3, 3)