Metanism: The five goofy themers each include a popular brand (HONDA, EGGO, IKEA, NESTLE, ZOOM - yes, the Z is a tiny stretch, but even the Muggles meet on Zoom, which exploded over the past couple of years). Their initials spell HEINZ, the answer to the meta, which is fitting for Puzzle #57! Note also CAT and SUP in the center row and the allusion to tomatoes in the clue for 57-Down.
Hector 7:05 · 2023-06-10T17:12:18.881Z
My condiments to the chef
KayW 12:54 · 2023-06-10T17:30:28.227Z
Fun puzzle! Thanks Mikey
I K Snamhcok 🤓14:35 · 2023-06-10T17:26:49.751Z
Nice easy-breezy meta for a hot summer day. Thanks, Mikey!
Pair O Ducks 🤓8:45 · 2023-06-10T17:39:33.234Z
Hopefully a high score this week will help me ketchup on the leaderboard!
boharr 2s · 2023-06-10T17:24:42.009Z
Nice one. Thanks.
Cindy Heisler 3s · 2023-06-10T17:56:12.890Z
Fun, especially after this week's MGWCC. Great clues, as usual. Thanks, Mikey!
Toast 🤓53s · 2023-06-10T18:05:26.802Z
I relish a quick & easy meta that allows more inexperienced solvers to catch up.
FrankieHeck 16:44 · 2023-06-10T18:40:24.057Z
Nice! I had to rush through it so we could head up to visit our son in Pittsburgh, home of Heinz!
Joe 🤓10:58 · 2023-06-10T18:38:14.399Z
I'm 3 for 3 this weekend. Which doesn't happen often!
OK, this is kinda crazy - 43D and 54A could also be PULLE (the immature offspring of any animal) and ELSIE (L C - fits just as well as S E for ESSIE). I went over the puzzle 3 times, every clue/answer, and couldn't figure out what I had wrong. Had to do the Check Grid to see what was off. Wild! Great puzzle!
kymike 2s · 2023-06-10T20:39:45.042Z
I really RELISH your puzzles. Now I can go and CATSUP on other things while having a COCKTAIL.
Darth 🤓16:36 · 2023-06-10T21:21:16.022Z
Yep, I was waiting for this one... after puzzle 52 and 53! hahaha
ReB 5s · 2023-06-10T21:35:13.285Z
Lots of witty cluing, as usual. Nice to have a breather this week. I'm a bit puzzled by the chorizo reference to Britain, as I associate chorizo with Mexican food trucks/restaurants.
markhr 6:54 · 2023-06-10T22:09:01.821Z
I think "omelette" is more of a British spelling. "Omelet" is more standard in the US.
Carolyn 4s · 2023-06-10T22:15:58.315Z
Fun! I did the same thing with PULLE and ELSIE, but as a nurse I do prefer PULSE.
Berto 42:41 · 2023-06-10T22:02:18.424Z
Wahwhatwhatnow? Am I in the wrong place? (I did only just complete last week’s puzzle earlier lol)
hoover 6s · 2023-06-10T23:15:12.914Z
Nice one for a Saturday
rjy 3s · 2023-06-10T22:58:40.832Z
Solved this remotely in an internet dead zone, so had to ketchup to get my entry in. Nice one, Mikey!
I started late and was afraid I would not catch up or that I could not cut the mustard. Some of the fills left me in a pickle but I relished the thought of continuing. I was working on it while eating and at one point I asked myself "what this here sauce om my Hathaway shirt!" In the end I was Krafty enough to prevail and did not have to try 57 different varieties of answers. Thanks Mike, typical fun clues.
Bird Lives 3s · 2023-06-14T16:52:56.879Z
OK, everyone solved it. But did anyone else tour the factory when they were in grade school and get a tiny pickle pin?
JHSeeman 4s · 2023-06-14T17:45:43.798Z
great one for puzzle number 57....
Laura M 🤓16:27 · 2023-06-16T21:04:13.146Z
Forgot about this until now! Quick and fun though!
Destroyed the sofa, instead of actually using the scratching post (I'm looking at you, Ginger)
14A
Org. that sees a lot of traffic
15A
"Now it's clear!"
16A
Word in a common vow
17A
Group that swings for a very long time?
20A
Like Group 18 gases
21A
Start to act?
22A
Frantic cry when you can't find an eggnog spice?
26A
Creme-creme connection
29A
Bests
30A
Less antediluvian
31A
1990s animated villain
34A
Cable network that blew up all of a sudden
35A
Yet
36A
"What greater gift than the love of a ___?" (Dickens)
37A
Paintings that yours truly created? (You've heard of Monet - these are "Don't waste your Monet")
39A
Partake in a light repast
40A
"And the 62-Across rested in the seventh month...upon the mountains of ___" (Genesis 8:4)
42A
Domingo, e.g.
43A
Locale whose tower might sing, "Come on, I lean!"
44A
Location of strikes, say
45A
First two words of a Lovin' Spoonful title question
47A
Dict. derivation
48A
Part of the camera that shows you how you're really feeling?
52A
Some mixers
54A
Woman's name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet
55A
Sausage-filled breakfast dish you might order in Britain?
60A
Small altercation
61A
Gloomy cloud
62A
See 40-Across
63A
Setting in "Fiddler on the Roof"
64A
411
65A
"Mayday! I need more Brillo pads!"
Down
1D
Mgmt.
2D
He portrayed 6-Down
3D
"Look at all my proofreading insertion symbols!" "Yeah, I don't ___ all about them"
4D
36-Across, once
5D
"Kinda"
6D
See 2-Down
7D
Hideaway where I can go be an introvert
8D
The bird was flying so high, I had to ___ my neck (these puns can't be beak)
9D
It might be caught on screen
10D
Acquiesced
11D
"My thoughts meandered there for a moment..."
12D
Poetic always
13D
MDs
18D
Mail
19D
Cacophonies
23D
"Capiche?"
24D
Greasy goo
25D
Chose to sign up for Pun of the Kind e-mails (obvious plug)
27D
"We can help!"
28D
Cornmeal cake of Colombia
30D
Popular slang word of the early 1990s
31D
Several notes, typically
32D
"Look at all my diamond rings!" "Yeah, I don't ___ all about them"
33D
Whatever it takes
35D
Café carriers
37D
___ o menos ("So-so" in Spanish)
38D
Hill helper
41D
Compunction
43D
It's living proof!
45D
"I can only ___ much!"
46D
Verdi opera based on a Shakespeare play
48D
Eye color in a Kelly Clarkson song title
49D
These, in Tegucigalpa
50D
34-Across's "N"
51D
Pursues
53D
Jaunty cadence
55D
A little change, briefly
56D
"Say what now?"
57D
Nail polish brand with hues that include "Left Your Texts on Red" and "We Seafood and Eat It" (Mikey's offering: "I Love This Shade from My Head Tomatoes")
58D
"That's really something!"
59D
Movie with the line, "You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee!"