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Before and After 2

◆◆ · By JeffsPuzzles · Published 2024-11-03T09:33:33.327Z

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  • Echser 7s · 2024-11-03T22:16:13.808Z
    OLEAGINOUS is less than ideal ... good puzzle though !
    • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-11-04T02:32:06.288Z
      Thanks for solving!
      • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓5:20 · 2024-11-04T19:40:20.691Z
        I think OLEAGINOUS is a perfectly cromulent word.
      • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓5:20 · 2024-11-04T19:40:05.160Z
        Very clever! That's quite the before-and-after chain.
        • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-11-05T00:30:16.108Z
          Five people who don't have a whole lot in common, that's for sure! Thanks for solving, Sendhil.
        1A
        Sony ___man
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        Across
        1. 1A
          Sony ___man
        2. 5A
          Nashville honors
        3. 9A
          Meas. that becomes three times smaller when you remove its second letter
        4. 13A
          After
        5. 14A
          "____ Halloween" (not-so-legendary Adam Sandler movie), or legendary NBA coach Brown)
        6. 16A
          Common cookie ingredient
        7. 17A
          Cicatrix
        8. 18A
          Pass
        9. 19A
          Fay of the original King Kong
        10. 20A
          With 36 and 55 Across, American revolutionary firebrand through a noted 19th-early-20th century novelist to a film rebel (36 Across), then through a Rat Pack singer to a noted writer of Theses (55 Across)
        11. 23A
          Reduplicative Kenyan group that rebelled against British rule
        12. 25A
          Long-time film critic Pauline
        13. 26A
          Speed meas. on reel-to-reel tape players
        14. 28A
          Neither here nor there
        15. 30A
          Surreptitiously skedaddle
        16. 32A
          "Flew in from Miami Beach ____" (The Beatles, "Back in the USSR")
        17. 33A
          "Casablanca" heroine
        18. 35A
          Piquant
        19. 36A
          See 20 Across
        20. 39A
          In court
        21. 42A
          ____nation ("Sail" band)
        22. 43A
          North Star of "Meatballs" or Walden of "The Parent Trap"
        23. 47A
          Enthusiastic embrace
        24. 49A
          ___ fish (horseradish delivery device associated with seders)
        25. 51A
          Circumference component
        26. 52A
          Idiom follower?
        27. 54A
          Basement
        28. 55A
          See 20 Across
        29. 58A
          SI unit, for short
        30. 59A
          Jeweler's accessory
        31. 60A
          Avid singer, on reflection?
        32. 63A
          "L'___, c'est moi" (apocryphal, not-exactly-humble statement by Louis XIV)
        33. 64A
          Shoe material for Elvis
        34. 65A
          "Blimey" alternative
        35. 66A
          Actress Michelle
        36. 67A
          Brief signs of success?
        37. 68A
          Spanish term of endearment meaning "baby"
        Down
        1. 1D
          MS-___
        2. 2D
          Ltd. equivalent
        3. 3D
          Shoulder blade
        4. 4D
          Common find at an archeological dig (often in shards)
        5. 5D
          Heavenly guardians
        6. 6D
          Bond type, for short
        7. 7D
          Way to be taken
        8. 8D
          Proverbially ill
        9. 9D
          Possible issuer of a 6 Down
        10. 10D
          Spanish neighborhoods
        11. 11D
          Remain in place
        12. 12D
          ___ ops
        13. 15D
          Kennedy or Barrymore
        14. 21D
          Scottish cap
        15. 22D
          Female protagonist in My Fair Lady and Hamilton
        16. 23D
          Pic with agents Kay and Jay
        17. 24D
          "That's __ from me, dawg"
        18. 27D
          Spot for slop or sloppy spot
        19. 29D
          Smarmy
        20. 31D
          Tentatively slated
        21. 34D
          NNE opposite
        22. 37D
          One who has achieved nirvana
        23. 38D
          Winning slate
        24. 39D
          JDs' org.
        25. 40D
          Bug with a liking for lumber
        26. 41D
          Salted codfish (it's amazing in a stew)
        27. 44D
          Aaron Judge's foundation
        28. 45D
          Whence Charlie "never returned," in a classic song protesting a fare increase
        29. 46D
          What the middle letter of 26 Across stands for
        30. 48D
          Elec., cable, etc.
        31. 50D
          "That's disgusting ... get that 49 Across fish away from me!"
        32. 53D
          Cruciverbalist, at times
        33. 56D
          Author Philip or director Eli
        34. 57D
          Hairstyle
        35. 58D
          Major or minor thing
        36. 61D
          ___ Halen (band whose lead singer was David Lee 56 Down)
        37. 62D
          "I support the motion"
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