This Might Be a Crossword Part IV
◆ · By Sommersmith · Published 2024-06-12T19:37:31.824Z
Constructor's Note
Happy birthday to John Linnell of They Might Be Giants! Every clue and entry in this puzzle is taken from a They Might Be Giants song lyric or title.
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"The marshal's binoculars ___ / And skyward they train"
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- 1A"The marshal's binoculars ___ / And skyward they train"
- 6A"A cell knows what it has to do / To grow into some moss or a shrew / ___ or a kangaroo"
- 11A"You've still got some Wite-Out / Enough to ___ all the previous line"
- 12A"Should you ___ when the skullhead is in front of you / Or is it worse because it's always waiting where your 10D don't go?"
- 13A"Which one of us is the one that we can't trust? / You say that I think it's you but I don't ___ with that"
- 14A"As I'm sure you're ___ / You've got one of those rare / Combustible heads / I read an article all about them / You're on fire"
- 15A"Dewey ___" (title of a Scott Joplin-inspired instrumental)
- 16A"Squares ___ look distant in her rear view mirror / But they're actual size / Actual size to her"
- 18A"Uno mas uno es ___"
- 19A"Magic marker / Edna Ferber ___ / Baking soda / Cobra venom / Poker caddy / Money for dope"
- 21A"Here on fibber island / We strum rubber guitars / Our friends live on Mars / And we ___ buttons on our cars"
- 22A"There's a knock at the door that I ___ / There's a face at the window, a smiling yellow face"
- 24A"Particle ___, Particle ___ / Doing the things a particle can / What's he like? It's not important / Particle ___"
- 26A"Today was going to be the year / I kept a closer watch / Stepped up another ___"
- 29A"He's got a watch with a minute hand / Millennium hand and an __ hand / And when they meet it's a happy land"
- 30A"You know, chemistry is like a relationship. And that's why when you're looking for ___ design, go to the best: The Chopping Block. You might not know it, but over 50% of ___ designers are sleepy and cranky."
- 31A"___ can I sing like a girl / And not be stigmatized / By the rest of the world?"
- 33A"In my prison cell I bide my time / Always thinking / Always busy cooking up an ___"
- 35A"Do you sing like ___ Oyl on purpose / You guys must be into the Eurythmics"
- 37A"Sure as you can't ___ a train / You can't change your fate"
- 38A"Fall in love with the too-tall girl / Whispers pretty ___ / In a megaphone / Fall in love with the too-tall girl / Knows more etiquette / Than Connecticut"
- 39A"I'll never be a star / Since there's just two songs in me, and this is number ___"
- 40A"Don't, don't, don't let's ___ / This is the worst part / Could believe for all the world / That you're my precious little girl"
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- 1D"Austere, severe, he held few people dear / His oratory filled his foes with ___"
- 2D"I'm waiting for my ride / But I want to wait inside / The store where they let me play the ___"
- 3D"All hail the Bloodboat! / A tribute to the mighty seafaring vessel / The crashing sound of flatware / Came deep from her ___ bay onto the wharf"
- 4D"It's hard to understand me from the language I ___ / There's no word in English for my style"
- 5D"Then one day the scientists recovered all their gear / Excited by the prospect of unearthly things inside / They found, to their astonishment, a living thing within / It ___ to bear good tidings from somewhere in outer space / You're not 17D / You're not 17D / Behold the mystery that is me'"
- 6D"And it sticks like a broken record / Everything sticks like a broken record / Everything sticks until it goes ___ / And the truth is, we don't know anything"
- 7D"Finger pointing, eyebrows ___ / Mouth in the shape of the letter 'O' / Red means stop; do not go / No / No / No!"
- 8D"Life is a test / But I confess / I like this mess I've made so far / ___ on a curve / And you'll observe / I'm right below the horizon"
- 9D"Time is flying like an ___ / And the clock hands go so fast, they make the wind blow / And it makes the pages of the calendar go / Flying out the window, one by one"
- 10DSee 12A
- 17DSee 5D
- 20D"We've been driving around / From one end of this town to the other and back / But no one's ever seen us / Driving our Econoline ___ / And no one's ever heard of our band"
- 21D"She ___ your goldfish free / And now she's sighing / Blew out your pilot light / And made a wish"
- 23D"___ obey what the children say" (or, in some live performances: "Children obey what the ___ say")
- 24D"I'm employee of the ___ / Number one crumb-making son of a gun"
- 25D"But the ___ we felt for each other was kept / In our private backstage world / All our hatred was left behind / When we took command of the First Avenue Stage"
- 27DAfghanistan, Brunei, ___, Denmark, Equador / Fiji, Guatemala"
- 28D"Hey, ___ing sombrero / Gently waving in the air above the meadow / Softly floating in the sky outside the window / ___ing sombrero, don't be shy"
- 29D"Dark and metric is my town / North, ___, 32D, and south / Just because you're smiling / Doesn't mean you haven't drowned"
- 30D"Hi, ___ the Replacements / And ___ playing in a rock'n'roll band"
- 32DSee 29D
- 34D"John ___ Supertaster / Tastes more than we do"
- 36D"You probably get that a ___ / I'll bet that people say that a ___ to you, girl"