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A brown filly wearing a propeller hat lets out a big groan. "Aw, I hate math homework!"

"WHAT," Twilight says. "Button Mash, Math homework is great!"

"No, it isn't. I could be playing games, I'm only a few ranks away from the final level of Xena's Yellow Zeitgeist, but instead I have to find a bunch of stupid numbers."

What kind of numbers does Button Mash need to find?

Note: All Numbers appear at most once, except for one that appears twice. Not every Number is used.

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$Dinosaur made of magma (11) - Auric rodent (4 3)$

$Bug which can open multiple locks (6 3 6) - Hypothetical device that surrounds a star and absorbs its energy (5 6)$

$A billion times as ingenious (4-9) + Attention paid to the product of mass and acceleration (5 5)$

$Personification of retribution (10 2 10) + Out of place Incan citadel robot (10 5 4)$

$Proficient sword user (6 2 6) + Feline display dummy (9 3)$

$German ruler of an ideal state (6 6) - Enormous celestial dragon which signals that all will be well (4 9 6 7 6)$

$Ideal dragon (6 6) - Swindler who haunts dreams (9 5)$

$Mock vassal of the lion (7 6 2 3) - Trick marionette made from character sequences (7 6 2 7)$

$Initial gem (11) - Evil vice (10 3)$

$Elizabeth II, if she ruled the Milky Way (6 5) - Justitia, below 273 Kelvin (6 4 7)$

$Red follower who is a stealthy and well-protected fighter (7 6 5 5) x Ruler whose coat of arms depicts DNA (8 4 5-8)$

$Starry-eyed dragon made of unknown space material (6-4 4 6 6) - Castle in Japanese chess (5 4)$

$One who destroys two spotted cubes (4-1-4 7) - Epitome of illegal activity (10 2 5)$

$Ocean predator made of steel rods (8 5) - Hyphenated name composed of a pair of cyclic anagrams (5-5)$

$Gershwin composition, with sad color replaced by crazy state (8 2 7) - Octet of frightening bits (6-4)$

$Quiet vessel commemorating Noah (6 5 3) - Nocturnal chess piece capable of moving in all 8 directions (5 2 3 5)$

$Destroyer of lamp inhabitants (5 6) + Large visual organ (3 3)$

$Enormous five-digit appendage (5 4) - Dragon appearing in Hobbes' 1651 book (9 6)$

$One who uses spirits for their own ends (11 2 5) - Fortunate hand with cards of consecutive ranks (5 8)$

$Latin dragon from non-coastal America (13) - Large, dark, seagoing vessel made from maize (9 2 4)$

$Dragon made of desire and named after an arachnid and a toothy fish (4 5 6 6 5) + Andromeda cruise missile (6 8)$

$Perfect society (6) + Eyeshade that's cheap and disposable (6 5)$

$Dragon of lightning (7 5 6) - Top part of a coat of arms (8 5)$

$Cryptic clue for abbreviation of Outer Banks (5 3) - Unstraightened chef (7 4)$

$Call history (6 7) - Bright jumping chess piece (12)$

$Starry-eyed dragon capable of traveling back in time (6-4 7 6) - Pride and Envy are two of these (3 5 4)$

$Dragon that manages numbers (7 6) - Obtainer of French bread (4 6)$

$Celebrity guardian angel (4 6 6) - Battleship with a name similar to its ship type (11 9)$

$Powerful limb that ends fights (8 3 6 3) + Hungry and hairy spider (8 9)$

$Water sound in a very deep hole (5 6) + Cold Spanish gentleman (9)$

$Against a perfect society (10) - Crazy book saga, The alliterative very sleepy ungulate (8 3 8 5 5)$

$\sqrt{Song about luck (7 4) x Large German gun used against Stalingrad during WWII (16 4 6 5 4)}$

$Costumed dance event (10) - Winged horse, while flying (3 7)$

$Stellar ancient glove of a fighting Rocky Balboa (7' 5 4 6) - Tricky underling that crushes large creatures (7 6 5 7)$

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