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SNL Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che, Puzzle 1

◆ · By Matt · Published 2020-12-14T17:26:45.411Z

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  • Mike D 🤓16:05 · 2020-12-14T18:59:40.194Z
    Fun puzzle Matt!
    Play today's daily mini crossword
    1A
    Small difficulties?
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    Across
    1. 1A
      Small difficulties?
    2. 6A
      Noncommitting RSVP
    3. 12A
      Decorated plant this time of year
    4. 15A
      Paraphrasing a tweet I recently saw: "If someone gives me warmed up chocolate milk and tells me it's ___, Imma burn they house down"
    5. 16A
      From Veep: "Even labor and delivery with her was a nightmare." "Oh, yes? Why is that? You have a very ___ vagina?" "Well, tight. In the States we say tight."
    6. 17A
      Donkey Kong, for example
    7. 18A
      Jost: "President Elect Joe Biden has emphasized his commitment to vaccine distribution by promising 100 million shots in 100 days, which is also his ___."
    8. 20A
      Tin container
    9. 21A
      Vaccinate, slangily
    10. 22A
      Animal that can rotate its head 270 degrees (I mean I can too, but only once)
    11. 23A
      Closest
    12. 25A
      Lincoln, of 5-dollar-bill fame
    13. 27A
      Put a stop to
    14. 29A
      It comes after survival, or before Kat
    15. 30A
      John or Amy or John Quincy (in that order of greatness)
    16. 33A
      Jost: "Don't worry, Trump isn't throwing in the towel, because he's been a fighter his whole life. At least that's what it looks like on his ___."
    17. 37A
      Hack, say
    18. 39A
      "That being said..." in a text
    19. 40A
      Shock
    20. 41A
      Possible pronoun
    21. 42A
      Suffix meaning "resembling"
    22. 44A
      "___ soon!"
    23. 45A
      More polite, "My turn!"
    24. 47A
      Matchbox Twenty single that precedes the line, "maybe it's time to come home"
    25. 51A
      Che: "The Texas lawsuit asked the Supreme Court to invalidate election results in four other states, which is a plan so crazy, only Texas could have ___."
    26. 53A
      Ice sheets that don't rhyme with 36-Down
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      ___ party, nerd gathering
    28. 55A
      Language in which the word for Ireland uses the word for potato
    29. 56A
      "The drain is NOT clogged, you ___!!!"
    30. 57A
      In math, the abstract concept generalizing the idea of an unclosed interval in the real line, -or- Dissects an alien, say
    31. 60A
      Concealed
    32. 62A
      "There should be ___!"
    33. 66A
      Put the pedal to the metal, but only briefly
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      Jost: "This week the Supreme Court dismissed two different Trump lawsuits to overturn the election results. They were the first rulings by the Supreme Court that were just the ___."
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      Plural is
    36. 71A
      Swashbuckling Flynn and others
    37. 72A
      Georgia, the ___ State (also, the Decider of the Senate Majority State)
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      Laughter indicated by thumbs
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      Lipton and Fuze competitor
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      Can eat right up
    Down
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      Chemicals banned by US law
    2. 2D
      Questlove or Black Thought, for example
    3. 3D
      8 prefix
    4. 4D
      Who likely left urine stains in the White House
    5. 5D
      ___ on the Beach, Bleeding Gums Murphy album
    6. 6D
      "___ Pronounce you Chuck and Larry", an Adam Sandler film that made almost $200 million for some reason
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      Rough handlers
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      New York City subway operator
    9. 9D
      Produce something dull in a laborious way -or- How to relieve sexual tension on the dance floor
    10. 10D
      Sharpen
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      Gets juuust right
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      A teardrop under the eye, often
    13. 13D
      Hipster brews
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      Housing cost
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      Wade defeater, for now
    16. 24D
      Puerto ___
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      Undergraduate degrees in STEM, for example
    18. 28D
      American rapper born Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
    19. 30D
      Best performance
    20. 31D
      Clean out your ears, say
    21. 32D
      Where to hang pictures, it's said
    22. 33D
      Ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London, thought to be nicknamed after the rations they were provided in the 17th century
    23. 34D
      Gritty genre
    24. 35D
      Not a soul
    25. 36D
      Wear that doesn't rhyme with 53-Across
    26. 38D
      Start to chat?
    27. 43D
      Go against
    28. 46D
      Statement of ability
    29. 48D
      They can be rushing and passing, abbr.
    30. 49D
      Lubrication injection site
    31. 50D
      Shined bright (like a diamond, why not)
    32. 52D
      Not noticed
    33. 56D
      The "bad" cholesterol (because you want a "low" amount of it, there's a mnemonic device for you)
    34. 57D
      Like some arguments and sex
    35. 58D
      But in Spain
    36. 59D
      Literary heroine Jane
    37. 61D
      Casablanca role
    38. 63D
      Insano in the membrano
    39. 64D
      Not quite shut
    40. 65D
      It's fine, while liquor is notably quicker
    41. 68D
      Deteriorate
    42. 69D
      Organization concerned with clean air (are they though? at least at the moment?)
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