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You Would Have Done The Same

· By Rose Sloan and Alex Boisvert · Published by acommonrose · Published 2025-04-22T17:53:11.854Z

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This puzzle's meta-answer is a song by the recently departed Roberta Flack that would complete this puzzle's theme. Submit your answer through Crosshare to be entered in a drawing for a puzzle pack or puzzle subscription.
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  • heron 🤓8:30 · 2025-04-22T19:00:53.224Z
    he had it coming (and here it comes!)
    • riotblob 🤓4:11 · 2025-04-23T05:30:04.847Z
      brilliant
      • Dan 40s · 2025-04-23T17:34:20.832Z
        solved without entering any letters into the grid, is that OK or am I going to jail
        • Alex Boisvert 4s · 2025-04-28T04:28:34.659Z
          how could we tell you that you were wrong
        • Sommersmith 🤓6:03 · 2025-04-23T19:32:41.190Z
          Delightful!
          • damefox 🤓5:20 · 2025-04-24T00:07:09.781Z
            Wow, great puzzle!
            • Alex Boisvert 4s · 2025-04-24T17:08:45.427Z
              don't enter me in the drawing plz
              • Carolyn 3s · 2025-04-24T23:11:47.410Z
                Terrific! First thought worked! Don't know the Roberta Flack song, but love Cell Block Tango.
                • rjy 2s · 2025-04-25T04:45:29.815Z
                  Terrific idea and execution!
                  1A
                  Yellowjackets, e.g.
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                  Across
                  1. 1A
                    Yellowjackets, e.g.
                  2. 6A
                    Didn't hit, in blackjack
                  3. 11A
                    Complete, as a certain mindfulness activity
                  4. 13A
                    Pixel alternatives
                  5. 15A
                    * 🍿
                  6. 16A
                    * Goal during crunch time, perhaps?
                  7. 17A
                    Indian state with an eponymous black tea
                  8. 18A
                    Brio
                  9. 20A
                    Angel to Drusilla, in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
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                    !, in most coding languages
                  11. 23A
                    Paving stone
                  12. 25A
                    "Hanukkah on ___" (deeply mediocre Hallmark movie about rival deli owners)
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                    * Collectible such as Enya the capybara or Irina the axolotl
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                    "___ House" (1982 hit for "Madness")
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                    Have a bite
                  16. 33A
                    Org. for certain allies
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                    Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations Orchestra, for one
                  18. 40A
                    [checks mail] "Happy birthday to me!"
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                    Wee little bit
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                    General ___'s chicken
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                    Goal
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                    * Annual prizes given for excellence in speechwriting and speaking
                  23. 50A
                    Bit of body art, for short
                  24. 53A
                    "You've been alive all this time. Why didn't you come back to Pride Rock?" speaker
                  25. 54A
                    One of three goddesses (along with Nayru and Farore) that created the land of Hyrule
                  26. 55A
                    Berry with purported quasi-magical properties
                  27. 57A
                    Renault car named for a Greek muse
                  28. 59A
                    Discord add-on that they are always trying to convince you to buy
                  29. 63A
                    * Region in Euclidean space whose boundary is "sufficiently regular"
                  30. 66A
                    "Love and ___" (Jewish cook book)
                  31. 67A
                    Schubert's D 958, 959 and 960, for three
                  32. 68A
                    Tree-like creature voiced by Vin Diesel
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                    Like food at many NYC street carts
                  Down
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                    Slides into the DMs of, perhaps
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                    Mountains in "The Sound of Music"
                  3. 3D
                    Response to a boast
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                    Teasers
                  5. 5D
                    ___ Osis of Liver ("Knighty Knight Bugs" character)
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                    Common type of column
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                    Counterpart of pls
                  8. 8D
                    Exclamation while hitting Ctrl-Z
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                    Sign in a radio studio
                  10. 10D
                    Lament, as the state of math education in this country
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                    Professional in demand in mid-April
                  12. 12D
                    Opposite of SSW
                  13. 13D
                    "Attention ___ You Need" (foundational AI paper)
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                    ___-Ball (game whose world championship trophy comes with a $10,000 prize)
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                    Exam aced by Elle Woods
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                    Not now
                  17. 24D
                    "Hot to Go!" and "Espresso", for two
                  18. 26D
                    Reacts to the first five minutes of "Up"
                  19. 27D
                    Alice Roosevelt Longfellow's "If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me", e.g.
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                    "God Getting Strong ___ To Bring Back Dinosaurs" -The Onion
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                    Seething
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                    Telecommuting initialism
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                    Father of Regan, Goneril, and Cordelia
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                    Dry, like the Mojave desert
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                    Amethyst and sapphire, for two
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                    Sneakily include on an email
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                    Similar (to)
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                    Prefix with "metric", in the "Steamed Hams" vignette
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                    X-Man with superhuman leaping ability and a prehensile tongue
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                    Purple coloration in pea plant flowers, e.g.
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                    Prestige
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                    Samuel who bought an island in New York harbor in 1774
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                    "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" star Ryder
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                    Drummer for the Muppets
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                    Have a chat
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                    Crushing, as an exam
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                    South American creature that looks like a cross between a pig and an elephant
                  38. 56D
                    "Love ___ short, forgetting ___ long" -Pablo Neruda
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                    Small fractions of gallons: Abbr.
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                    "Later, gator!"
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                    Saudi Arabian currency
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                    Tunisian tennis star Jabeur
                  43. 64D
                    "Thank God for gay men, because if it were not for gay men, I would not talk to men at all" quipster Margaret
                  44. 65D
                    "Oh, silly me! I made an error"
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