Puzzle #62 "That doesn't hold water"
◆ · By Philip Chow · Published 2023-05-25T01:04:58.061Z
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Word in the title of Episode VI and Episode VIII of the Star Wars films
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- 1AWord in the title of Episode VI and Episode VIII of the Star Wars films
- 5AWith 67-Across, cereal with a toucan mascot
- 10A___ Lanka
- 13ASign of things to come
- 14AHorizontal component of a structural I-beam
- 15AUnnaturally pale
- 16APlaces where people are always putting things?
- 18A"___ Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
- 19ALenient
- 20AUnagi nigiri, at a Japanese restaurant
- 22AGingerly drink from (a bowl), like a kitten
- 25AStratego piece that ranks just above a miner but below a lieutenant: Abbr.
- 26APlus
- 27ACollege grad
- 28AWolfed down
- 29ALight beige
- 30AStructure built under the queen's authority?
- 33ACampfire residue
- 34A___ center (building for community activities)
- 35AOpus ___ (group depicted in "The Da Vinci Code")
- 36A"The Joy Luck Club" novelist Tan
- 38AGPS calculation
- 41A"___ All That" (2021 remake of the 1999 film "She's All That")
- 43AReligious headgear of Pastafarians (adherents of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster)
- 46AEnding for "evil" or "wrong"
- 48ARub the wrong way
- 49ASale tag caveat
- 50AWorld's most populous country according to the most recent 2023 UN projections
- 52ADifficult item to steal from a hotel room
- 53AProficient
- 54AAscots and bow ties
- 56AStratego piece that ranks just above a captain but below a colonel: Abbr.
- 57AOrganization chronicled in "The Puzzle Palace": Abbr.
- 58ALike a shoddy alibi, or an apt descriptor for six entries in this puzzle (can you find them all?)
- 63ANorse goddess of healing
- 64A___ Champaign (Shangela's drag queen name on "Community" and twin cities of the University of Illinois)
- 65ACheap thrill
- 66AKind of onion or cabbage
- 67ASee 5-Across
- 68AAvant-garde
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- 1DNudge, as one's memory
- 2DGenre for The All-American Rejects
- 3DTierra ___ Fuego
- 4DFill with rage
- 5DSeasonal bug
- 6DParticularly precious stone
- 7DSquare one
- 8DToy villain with an apt backwards name as he embodies the opposite of what LEGO represents (fun and imagination)
- 9D"Westworld" actress Thompson
- 10DIngredient in a cordon bleu
- 11D"Would you ___?" (conversational party game)
- 12DLatin phrase for "where it originally was"
- 14DTrickster animal that a kitsune is, in Japanese folklore
- 17DLucky animal that a maneki-neko is, in Japanese figurines
- 21DPurposes
- 22DBert who portrayed the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz"
- 23D___ vera (skin-soothing succulent)
- 24DBygone storage media once common in data processing applications which received notoriety in 2000 when their uneven use in Florida was alleged to have affected the outcome of the U.S. presidential election
- 25DShowing no emotion
- 28DPoint of no return?
- 31DTen of them are needed for a first down: Abbr.
- 32DBundled, as hay
- 33D"Atlas Shrugged" novelist Rand
- 37DUpper limit, for short
- 39DJourney
- 40DLittle Alex Horne, to Greg Davies in "Taskmaster": Abbr.
- 42DThe phantom in "The Phantom of the Opera"
- 44DShare some common ground
- 45DGroan-inducing pun like this one my father would tell me: "I'm on a seafood diet, I see food and I eat it"
- 46DThanksgiving tradition
- 47DBaby shower gift
- 51DAbysmal
- 52DItalo ___ (Italian aviator whose surname is Rocky's surname (as played by Sylvester Stallone) with the last letter missing)
- 53DWhat a dentist may request you to say
- 55DCurrency depicted here: €
- 56DDesigner's advanced degree, for short
- 59DAdd-___ (optional extras)
- 60DIt may be flipped
- 61DHeart monitor readout, for short (which I just learned is the exact same thing as an EKG, the more commonly seen abbreviation from the German spelling "elektrokardiogramm")
- 62DOptimist's limit?