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Throw in the Towel

◆ · By Sara Cantor · Published 2020-12-15T23:14:25.916Z

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  • Mike D 🤓10:34 · 2020-12-16T00:02:34.196Z
    Really fun puzzle Sara! I loved the themers, and the cluing was great all over. NESS almost tripped me up 😂
    • Sara Cantor constructor · 2020-12-16T16:04:03.610Z
      Thanks!! I was hoping that one would be a stumper
    • tara 9:28 · 2020-12-16T00:53:35.766Z
      theme so good
      • Sara Cantor constructor · 2020-12-16T16:03:36.461Z
        (/‿＼✿) thank u
      • Jesse Bergen 🤓13:59 · 2020-12-16T03:38:09.432Z
        Great clues, very fun theme answers. Take the W
        • Sara Cantor constructor · 2020-12-16T16:02:29.601Z
          W happily taken, thank you!
        • Resident Mutt 🤓12:44 · 2020-12-16T10:52:10.690Z
          Lovely clean grid! Really enjoyed the themers, especially IONTAMER, and a lovely revealer.
          • Sara Cantor constructor · 2020-12-16T16:02:14.341Z
            Thank you!!!
          • RozzaW 13:24 · 2020-12-16T09:21:03.759Z
            Fantastic theme. I thought ONESTARSTATE was the actual phrase up until I realised the theme!
            • Sara Cantor constructor · 2020-12-16T16:02:57.531Z
              Hahaha thank you!
            • Mikey G 🤓13:28 · 2020-12-16T15:56:12.028Z
              L send you a compliment after that great puzzle! L done!
              • Sara Cantor constructor · 2020-12-16T16:03:11.980Z
                That's L folks!
              • Abide 🤓13:19 · 2020-12-18T03:43:31.862Z
                I love a good Christmas puzzle!
                • Jeremy Weissmann 🤓10:01 · 2020-12-25T04:56:10.106Z
                  Whew! Not easy! Great puzzle.
                  • Brendan W Sullivan 🤓8:02 · 2021-03-11T05:43:30.803Z
                    This was fun! I worked from the top left to the bottom right, and ended up filling in the revealer before any of the themers, then went back to get those.
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                    Construction by an eager beaver or just like a regular beaver
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                    Across
                    1. 1A
                      Construction by an eager beaver or just like a regular beaver
                    2. 4A
                      Necessities for 'i' and 'j'
                    3. 8A
                      Long break
                    4. 14A
                      Purple yam
                    5. 15A
                      Get the edge on?
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                      Enthusiastic
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                      Particle decelerator?
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                      Like puddles of mud
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                      Reminiscent of borscht
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                      Like fingers out in the cold too long
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                      Schematic
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                      Scathing review of Texas?
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                      No. 2 feature
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                      Section of a house
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                      Like someone who missed their train
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                      The Wimpy Kid who wrote the Diary
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                      American Eagle's underwear line
                    18. 39A
                      "Fergalicious" and "I Gotta Feeling"'s are both 128
                    19. 40A
                      Video chat tat?
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                      Big name in ice cream
                    21. 43A
                      Swabbing the poop deck, maybe
                    22. 45A
                      Radius, for one
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                      Bit of lore
                    24. 47A
                      Prefix with -technics and -mania
                    25. 49A
                      Unhelpfully said "maybe" on a Facebook event, perhaps
                    26. 51A
                      Goofing around and around and around?
                    27. 56A
                      Water trough around a castle
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                      Ways to raise awareness, for short
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                      They help you hold your horses
                    30. 62A
                      Play section before intermission
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                      Accept defeat... or how to fill in 17-, 24-, 40-, and 51-Across
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                      Ones who won the blue ribbon, for short
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                      Store to buy a Klippan sofa or a Docksta table
                    34. 68A
                      Bogotá bear
                    35. 69A
                      Choose with care
                    36. 70A
                      Logic connective also known as the Sheffer stroke
                    37. 71A
                      Sea-Tac time
                    Down
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                      Hwy. no-nos
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                      Peek-___!
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                      It can drop down or pop up
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                      Actor Johnson of "Fast Five" and "Fast & Furious 6" and "Furious 7" and
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                      Unit of resistance
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                      Tik Tok users, sterotypically
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                      Peacock
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                      Toy conglomerate that owns Monopoly and Twister
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                      Offline, online
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                      Sign in a pet shelter
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                      Inventor who I'd say liked pigeons a little too much
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                      Take one's top off, I guess
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                      Composer behind the music in "Funny Girl" (1964)
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                      Stand up straight, legs together, arms at to the side at 90 degree angles
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                      Border (alternative clue: How a little kid might pronounce "margarine")
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                      Therefore
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                      Sit in the tub
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                      Actor Idris who played Macavity
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                      In awe
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                      PIN places
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                      2005 film in which Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson, and Simon Cowell play Wristwatch #1, #2, and #3, respectively
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                      Panic! at the Disco music
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                      Harvest
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                      Linger
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                      Black-___ peas
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                      "Didn't realise the hate for minions was this real fuck these aliens got it bad" -@___malik
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                      He who fiddled while Rome burned
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                      Perfect example
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                      Furniture you might install to face a big couch
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                      Reddest, as tomatoes
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                      Scatter
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                      Apple desktops
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                      Night: Sp.
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                      "___ Attraction" (1987)
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                      Have a home-cooked meal
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                      Likely origin city of okonomiyaki
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                      Restaurant chain that briefly tried to make their Thing burgers instead of pancakes
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                      It's at wit's end?
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                      Opening for coins or letters
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                      Someone you can interact with but not play, in video games: Abbr.
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                      Scope of knowledge
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