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Themeless Tulips

· By comp · Published 2021-12-22T06:17:08.084Z

I don't actually know what the bars are supposed to represent, like you're holding the tulip up with a stick or something? Looks neat though.
Also, it's a pangram!
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  • Mike D 🤓6:51 · 2021-12-22T13:31:40.273Z
    Ooo very nice! Love the grid art 🥀
    • Luc 16:52 · 2021-12-22T15:36:25.721Z
      Fun! This was a pretty smooth solve
      • Wouter van Dijke 10:08 · 2021-12-22T23:19:06.243Z
        That was great! Loved the nerdy answers and the funny clues
        1A
        Like the whimsical idea of getting pigs to fly, when given enough resources for research into probably unethical stuff, but hey it could be done!
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        1. 1A
          Like the whimsical idea of getting pigs to fly, when given enough resources for research into probably unethical stuff, but hey it could be done!
        2. 11A
          What the ruins of Pompeii are buried under (also see https://twitter.com/chibleee/status/1406031458414731265)
        3. 14A
          Loosen, as shoes
        4. 15A
          The Moon landing, for example!!!
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          Such as "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
        6. 18A
          Coddled
        7. 19A
          Cannot be modified, like a purely functional data structure
        8. 21A
          Deadly premonition, say ("Deadly Premonition" is also the title of an absurd video game)
        9. 22A
          One can spoil the whole bunch (also, the title of a Touhou track which spawned a meme where people would remake the animated music video in any medium they could)
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          Airplane'd some vegetables into, perhaps
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          President after JFK
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          Prefix for plasm
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          Getting some buds (this could refer to plants or beers apparently)
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          "___ me in. ___ me innnnnnn!" — Eric Andre
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          Place for remains
        16. 36A
          Really cool-looking lamp type; Cloudflare uses a whole array of them for random number generation
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          Thigh muscles, for short
        18. 40A
          Mo. city (it has the Gateway Arch)
        19. 41A
          Element used a lot in fiberglass production
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          Not-yet-translated files, as in anime and manga
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          Where Noah landed
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          Aral, at one point (even Wikipedia uses "was" in the article)
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          Atrophying (maybe drink some milk?)
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          Coconut-and-egg jam popular in South East Asia (but maybe not as popular elsewhere, so I'll say that it backwards is one certain mammal)
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          Plural ending for "tab"
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          "I've seen crazier things"
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          Gems that Sonic has to collect to activate his Infinity Gauntlet, I think; I haven't seen any Marvel movies and I last played Sonic like a decade ago
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          Prefix meaning "Mars" (it's spelt almost like the corresponding Greek name)
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          Approves or embargoes
        30. 63A
          Turbulent waters
        31. 65A
          North American Indigenous people, who live mostly in Canada
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          Fr. ladies
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          Educe, as a response
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          Second of three in a Cartoon Network show
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          Places where you might start hearing ominous chanting in Latin and find a disproportionate amount of healing items
        Down
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          Have an influence (on)
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          Tooth covering
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          Measurement of how much things reflect light; fresh snow has a really high value, which is why it's so darn bright in the mornings
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          Placed down
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          One would start to find less of this as you go to 12D regions (or maybe in 13D too I guess)
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          The last letter of the alphabet extends pinky and drinks tea
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          Sushi tuna
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          Fail, as in a movie at the box-office
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          Dalai ___
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          Radiate, as charm
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          "Improvise. ___. Overcome"
        12. 12D
          Like climate south of the Arctic or north of Antarctica
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          Dante's, uh, vacation destination in "Divine Comedy"
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          Prepare to hit a triple bogey, maybe
        15. 20D
          Tic-___-toe
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          Most people born in August
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          "Whew am I in a freezer or something?"
        18. 26D
          What you're probably not doing correctly if you're sitting there shouting "You piece, why won't you fit in there!"
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          MAD stuffs like a really big 8D
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          ___-Grain cereal bars (healthy-sounding name, I don't know if it actually is)
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          Italian frozen desert (this is like the 5th entry that's cold-themed)
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          Annual esports event for fighting games (it's where the video of Chun-Li's attacks being parried comes from)
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          Bronze
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          Fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien inits.
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          Codes that you can scan with your phone's camera
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          Dubai's country abbr.
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          Summoned an eldritch being from its slumber just so you could have a friend, say
        28. 41D
          Sweethearts, in slang
        29. 44D
          Chi ___, religious symbol that looks like a P with an X through it, but those are actually Greek letters
        30. 47D
          Shout from a lottery winner
        31. 48D
          "I ___! Get that limited edition NVIDIA RTX 3080TI for me!"
        32. 49D
          Quintet in "A Christmas Carol" (quartet really, but I saw an adaptation of it as a kid and jeez they made Ebeneezer really ugly)
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          Rainbow-shaped
        34. 52D
          China's Sun ___-sen
        35. 53D
          "I'll go out on ___ and say that I do like pineapple pizza." (gasps ensues)
        36. 56D
          Top-left key, unless you got one of those really compact keyboards, in which case, I don't know what your layers are!
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          Female horse
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          "___ arigato, Mr. Roboto"
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          Console for "Kirby Super Star"
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          "You're such ___! Oink oink!"
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          Sound made when you have water and 36A touch (at least, in Minecraft)
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          Whistle blower
        43. 64D
          He stings like a bee
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