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Today · piece 624

A Wednesday this year

National Day is a fixed date that lands on a different weekday every year. Last year's plan has the right words and the wrong shape, and the shape is what decides the week.

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  92. Three years of reviewsOperator
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  110. The alert nobody unmutesOperator
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  114. Closed on the first dayOperator
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  129. Paid media in a borrowed voiceOperator
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  131. Sorted by the kitchenOperator
  132. The brief is a voice noteCraft
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  134. The summer leaves twiceMarket
  135. Judged on the doorstepOperator
  136. The leave calendarInside
  137. The cooler is the shelfMarket
  138. A month of three weeksOperator
  139. Who could raise the priceMarket
  140. The number belongs to the cashierInside
  141. Renting the cardOperator
  142. A standard you can sayCraft
  143. Different by their measureMarket
  144. Silence needs a signatureInside
  145. Before they askOperator
  146. Specialty is the category nowMarket
  147. Better wins the weekOperator
  148. Everyone is a peace treatyInside
  149. The worst branchMarket
  150. Broad felt like ambitionOperator
  151. When they stop checkingInside
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  153. The size of the askCraft
  154. The first message is a receiptOperator
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  160. Too small for the dropdownOperator
  161. The fifth coffee shopMarket
  162. Whoever has it nowOperator
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  167. Nobody has to askInside
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  169. They only met the offerOperator
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  171. Judged on thirty nightsInside
  172. Only ever met you at nightOperator
  173. No occasion to lean onCraft
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  175. Finance's Ramadan begins nowInside
  176. One weekend, two occasionsOperator
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  178. Nobody needed a driverOperator
  179. Sent from an empty officeInside
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  181. The buyer you have never metOperator
  182. Both, which means neitherInside
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  190. The night shift nobody invoicedInside
  191. Fixed price, moving costOperator
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  331. Reconcile before you reportOperator
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  348. Named after nothingOperator
  349. The pack is not a posterCraft
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  351. Smaller, not lowerMarket
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  353. The review with no numberInside
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  355. Still green on FridayOperator
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  358. Somebody is working todayOperator
  359. The greeting nobody readsCraft
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  362. The month the film ateOperator
  363. Who stayed in AugustMarket
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  368. Count the approversInside
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  370. A name in two scriptsCraft
  371. Run from CairoOperator
  372. Which ArabicMarket
  373. Regional means DubaiInside
  374. The buyer decides NovemberOperator
  375. One poster, three shelvesMarket
  376. The August deckInside
  377. Planned on August numbersOperator
  378. The year starts this weekMarket
  379. What ran while you were awayOperator
  380. Written to be forwardedCraft
  381. Committed alreadyInside
  382. Field notes, the uniform shopMarket
  383. Friday's cookOperator
  384. The distributor's SeptemberInside
  385. The countdown has a licenceMarket
  386. Sample size of the adviceOperator
  387. The school run daypartMarket
  388. The deck and the buyInside
  389. Posted at eleven at nightOperator
  390. The same backpackCraft
  391. The September walletMarket
  392. Use it or lose itInside
  393. One peak fewerOperator
  394. Closed for the summerMarket
  395. Cheap traffic, wrong answersOperator
  396. The word phasedInside
  397. The city comes back in orderMarket
  398. The customer's summerOperator
  399. The last thirdInside
  400. The form decides the offerMarket
  401. An offer in one breathCraft
  402. The one-product ceilingOperator
  403. The fee for being seenMarket
  404. Signed while they were awayInside
  405. What breaks when nobody is checkingOperator
  406. The school year starts three timesMarket
  407. Four ideas, one customerInside
  408. Choosing, then solvingOperator
  409. August is the floorMarket
  410. Flat through the empty fortnightOperator
  411. Where the voice livesCraft
  412. Fielded in JulyInside
  413. Sold on the way outMarket
  414. Open when nobody is lookingOperator
  415. Hired in JulyInside
  416. A sale for the warehouseMarket
  417. Still runningOperator
  418. The number on the flyerMarket
  419. A day off in one countryInside
  420. Who meets the new priceOperator
  421. Six months in one sittingCraft
  422. Cairo is openMarket
  423. Left in chargeInside
  424. In line with seasonalityOperator
  425. The valet in JulyMarket
  426. The overlap hourOperator
  427. Set by someone with a summerInside
  428. Everything falls due at onceMarket
  429. The founder's week offOperator
  430. Where the agency wentInside
  431. Field notes, the North CoastMarket
  432. The auto-replyCraft
  433. The dip everyone agrees onOperator
  434. Who funds the summer dealMarket
  435. A year that starts in JulyInside
  436. The month the money movesOperator
  437. The summer branchMarket
  438. Approved in JulyInside
  439. Managed or messagedOperator
  440. The third personMarket
  441. Plumbing seasonOperator
  442. The word for the customerCraft
  443. Halfway is the endInside
  444. Follow the air conditioningMarket
  445. The city comes out lateOperator
  446. The meetings that stopInside
  447. Same room, different guestMarket
  448. Ask the rota firstOperator
  449. Paid in riyals, spent in CairoMarket
  450. Spent by the thirtiethInside
  451. The feed has left the countryOperator
  452. The singular youCraft
  453. Cairo loses its weekendsMarket
  454. Written by whoever stayedInside
  455. Two calendars on one deskOperator
  456. It does not empty, it movesMarket
  457. The pause is not freeOperator
  458. Explaining June to head officeInside
  459. Twice the price by the seaMarket
  460. A beach nobody here is onOperator
  461. Divided by twelveInside
  462. Ninety days on the coastMarket
  463. The shortest copy of the yearCraft
  464. Compared to whatOperator
  465. Who stays behindMarket
  466. Who works on EidInside
  467. The dashboard on Eid morningOperator
  468. A share of a sheepMarket
  469. Giving without the postInside
  470. Spend runs through the holidayOperator
  471. The shelf knows which EidMarket
  472. The courier sets the end dateOperator
  473. The second ideaCraft
  474. Who is here in AugustInside
  475. A three-month cityMarket
  476. The stall is six weeks oldOperator
  477. Nobody's job to rememberInside
  478. The last order before the airportMarket
  479. The auction has no categoriesOperator
  480. The afternoon shutterMarket
  481. Decided on WhatsAppInside
  482. Forty assets, one ideaOperator
  483. Write the loss firstCraft
  484. The other EidMarket
  485. The shock absorberInside
  486. Pace to paydayOperator
  487. A small market fills upMarket
  488. Paying for the same startOperator
  489. Who has adminInside
  490. The day starts at nineMarket
  491. Three twos make sixOperator
  492. Waiting for the signatureInside
  493. A radius is an audienceMarket
  494. The customer wrote it firstCraft
  495. Copy of copy of campaignOperator
  496. The house is revisingMarket
  497. A test to settle an argumentInside
  498. Too small to testOperator
  499. Summer's first price riseMarket
  500. The money comes quarterlyInside
  501. The dashboard's weekendOperator
  502. When the terrace closesMarket
  503. The account works the holidayOperator
  504. Best needs a witnessCraft
  505. Afraid of MarchInside
  506. Rented for the weekendMarket
  507. Who wrote the wrapOperator
  508. The Saturday screenshotInside
  509. Friday moves to nineMarket
  510. The terrace you already paid forOperator
  511. Booked on ThursdayMarket
  512. Cut in Dubai, felt in CairoInside
  513. Full feed, empty checkoutOperator
  514. Greeting a day not yoursCraft
  515. Feseekh weekMarket
  516. The ones who did not have toInside
  517. One message for everyoneOperator
  518. Time to change their mindMarket
  519. The flow still says RamadanOperator
  520. What the giving was forInside
  521. Between Eid and the exodusMarket
  522. Rebuilt, not resumedOperator
  523. Three days on the calendarInside
  524. What the distributor still holdsMarket
  525. The brief said RamadanCraft
  526. Bought for the tableOperator
  527. The bag is the dining roomMarket
  528. The year starts in AprilInside
  529. The courier holds the cashOperator
  530. The first Friday after EidMarket
  531. Only what was servedInside
  532. Growing slower than the monthOperator
  533. Eid is not RamadanMarket
  534. Turning the day back roundOperator
  535. The greeting from a brandCraft
  536. Until after EidInside
  537. Nobody compares prices tonightMarket
  538. Where the audience wentOperator
  539. The iftar you do not hostInside
  540. The second day of EidMarket
  541. Built for a moving dateOperator
  542. The price of kahkMarket
  543. The verdict comes earlyInside
  544. Suddenly a giftOperator
  545. Not every motherCraft
  546. A gift judged by the tableMarket
  547. Eleven days earlier every yearInside
  548. The month risesOperator
  549. Feed the driverMarket
  550. The email that lands at iftarOperator
  551. Approved at elevenInside
  552. Eid begins in the middleMarket
  553. The second peakOperator
  554. Which budget the donation sits inInside
  555. The ad break people watchMarket
  556. Blessed, together, generousCraft
  557. The reply comes at tenOperator
  558. What the family group forwardsMarket
  559. Credit for the moonInside
  560. The small account's RamadanOperator
  561. Bigger than the householdMarket
  562. Whose table the ad is forInside
  563. Two prices for one dayOperator
  564. The first morningMarket
  565. Ready in the wrong orderOperator
  566. The reader at elevenCraft
  567. One Ramadan, written onceInside
  568. Who books the iftar tentMarket
  569. Two holiday calendarsOperator
  570. Keep the post, cut the mediaInside
  571. Already in the houseMarket
  572. The code under the postOperator
  573. A holiday without a defaultMarket
  574. Half the team will be fastingInside
  575. The day ends at suhoorOperator
  576. A greeting is a signatureCraft
  577. Served without being seenMarket
  578. Least authority, whole audienceInside
  579. Ten identical bouquetsOperator
  580. The other Valentine's DayMarket
  581. Open four days a yearOperator
  582. Six signatures for a postInside
  583. The shelf fills before the moonMarket
  584. The cheap monthOperator
  585. The four-day regionInside
  586. The Friday replyMarket
  587. The three-minute filmCraft
  588. Everyone eats at the same minuteOperator
  589. Thirty nights at one tableMarket
  590. The week head office visitsInside
  591. The ceiling is a censusOperator
  592. Four weeks outMarket
  593. Which page the number is onInside
  594. The quiet accountOperator
  595. Sell-in is not demandMarket
  596. The same on a TuesdayOperator
  597. Understood is not heardCraft
  598. The family is the boardInside
  599. Busiest after midnightMarket
  600. The Friday hoursOperator
  601. Year on year, minus eleven daysInside
  602. A country in a dropdownMarket
  603. Three shared daysOperator
  604. Iftar is sold to officesMarket
  605. Instruction down, comment upInside
  606. Named by whoever was awakeOperator
  607. Riyals, not percentagesCraft
  608. The kiosk never saw the adMarket
  609. The buy is the planInside
  610. The second audienceOperator
  611. The desert weekendMarket
  612. History is not an assetOperator
  613. The threshold is the jobInside
  614. Awareness does not stay boughtMarket
  615. Ramadan by the hourOperator
  616. The curve nobody drewInside
  617. The eve, not the dayMarket
  618. A table is not an ideaCraft
  619. A channel needs a readerOperator
  620. The second ChristmasMarket
  621. How the number arrivesInside
  622. Restarting as a strangerOperator
  623. Day one is mid-seasonMarket
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