Puzzle #65 "It's under our care"
◆ · By Philip Chow · Published 2023-07-18T07:04:31.485Z
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Vomit-inducing drug featured in an episode of "Family Guy" (hint: anagram of "ice cap")
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- 1AVomit-inducing drug featured in an episode of "Family Guy" (hint: anagram of "ice cap")
- 7ARepeated lyric in a 1987 Michael Jackson #1 hit
- 12AWord that my friend Wolfgang uses as his safeword or fruit that my friend Tim slices up to make his signature salad
- 13AGets by
- 17ASomeone who's the butt of many pranks?
- 18A"I can relate"
- 19AMopes about, with "on"
- 21AHeroine or song in "West Side Story" and heroine or song in "The Sound of Music"
- 22A___ torch (luau light)
- 25A"___ death do us part"
- 26AMore cunning
- 27ALike Sherlock Holmes, most of the time
- 29A"That's the Way Love Goes" singer Jackson
- 30A100%
- 31A"For English, please press one... para español, ___ favor oprima número dos"
- 32ADirty Harry's law enforcement employer: Abbr.
- 35AActor Butterfield of "Sex Education"
- 36A"Count me in!"
- 39ABig name in camping gear
- 40AActress Catherine-___ Jones of "Cocaine Godmother"
- 42AAuction action
- 43AGreen mushrooms in Super Mario games that give you an extra life
- 45A1983 comedy in which Michael Keaton plays a stay-at-home dad
- 47AThird-most populous city in Arkansas that began as a military post: Abbr.
- 48AThe hardest substance in the human body
- 50ARank to which Captain Nelson was promoted in "I Dream of Jeannie": Abbr.
- 51A"This bag is not ___"
WARNING: To avoid danger of suffocation, keep away from babies and children - 52ASupreme Court justice Elena
- 53AOne of many in a bedazzled dress, perhaps (and word that Roxxxy Andrews confused its singular and plural forms)
- 55AAid in labor management?
- 57A"Love your work!"
- 61ALike cheesecake, fudgy brownies, and other calorie-laden desserts
- 62A___ salad (vintage fruit salad named after what it looks like... made of a 12-Across thrust vertically into a stack of pineapple rings on a bed of lettuce with a maraschino cherry toothpicked to the tip)
- 63ALike cereal in milk, after sitting for a while... or like undesirable pastry bottoms as heard countless times on "The Great British Bake Off"
- 64ABonus features on DVDs (are these on their way of becoming obsolete?)
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- 1DTech company (with the slogan "Think") that invented floppy disks
- 2DKung ___ chicken
- 3DBrian of ambient music
- 4D"Murphy Brown" actress Bergen whose ventroliquist father left $10,000 to his beloved dummy but nothing for her when he passed
- 5DFrom square one
- 6DShift, with this clue's number
- 7DPastoral poem
- 8DHomer Simpson's favorite bar
- 9DActress Arthur of "The Golden Girls"
- 10D"The Little Mermaid" and "Little Shop of Horrors" lyricist Howard
- 11DPrescribed amounts
- 14DBitter cucumber-like muskmelon that is stomped on during Diwali, specifically the festival of Naraka Chaturdashi (which falls on this clue number's day of the 8th month of the Hindu calendar)
- 15DActress Donald who starred as the titular creepy dancing killer robot doll "M3GAN" (crosswordese clue: French girlfriend)
- 16DGraduating class info that I use to estimate someone's age when I'm stalking them on LinkedIn
- 20D"Love the Way You ___" (Eminem hit featuring Rihanna which is one of my go-to karaoke songs since I'm not a good singer... I figured I can just rap and read really fast instead)
- 22DYellow gemstone
- 23DOccupied, as a restroom
- 24D"___ in the air" (Lyric from a Bruno Mars Grammy-winning song, with this clue's number)
- 26DV8 ingredient (I can't figure out a cheeky way to incorporate this clue's number... shoulda had a V8
) - 28DActress Larter who won an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight with Beyonce in "Obsessed"
- 29D"True Blood" actor Manganiello who just announced that he and Sofia Vergara are planning to divorce
- 31DAdvanced degree that my friend Wolfgang claims to have, but I did a background check and he never even attended grad school, let alone write a thesis or dissertation: Abbr. (what a poser!)
- 33D___-Bismol (pink tummy ache soother)
- 34DFull of juicy gossip
- 37DBurton who produced "The Nightmare Before Christmas"
- 38DWesley Crusher's rank on "Star Trek: The Next Generation": Abbr.
- 41DNaval fleets
- 44DFlowing forth
- 46DTraditional Mexican soup made from tripe or the name of the Puerto Rican boy band that launched Ricky Martin's career
- 47DWebsite page that answers common inquiries: Abbr.
- 48DGot by, barely (with "out")
- 49DBack of the neck
- 50DOoey-gooey, like the cheese in a good grilled cheese sandwich
- 53DPerformed in a choir
- 54DSupersized cinematic experience (with the slogan "Think big")
- 56DOn the ___ (frequently, in slang)
- 58DNew Deal president's monogram (shout-out to my friend Frankie who shares the same initials but will probably never see this since he doesn't do crossword puzzles)
- 59D___ mode (served with ice cream)
- 60D"The Legend of Zelda" console, for short