Cut from the Same Cloth (DrTom and MikeyG)
◆ · By DrTom · Published 2023-06-28T11:45:16.355Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a fitting word
"Be careful what you wish for." Truer words were never spoken. Several times Mike and I have heard "you two are such punsters, you ought to do a puzzle together!". Well Muggledom, that day has arrived, we toiled, we chuckled, we pulled out our absolute best (or worst as the case may be) punning hats and went to town. We even though of asking the past VP to review it because we wanted to spare no Ex Pence!
The result we think is a pretty darn good puzzle and, in our none too humble (to us humility is when the room is too full of hot air) opinions, is a real chuckle or groan fest. If you cannot think of what the clue is getting at you probably need to ask yourself, "now what might these two have been thinking of?"
(by the way, if you can do that consistently and get the correct answer, there is reason seek help)
The puzzle is probably a 3 on the pun-ishment scale:
(while the puns are a 10 on the puzzlement scale)
Difficulty level:
2 inch slice of Devil's Food (Piece of Cake)
Inventor in Urgent Care (Watt, ICU)
** Like Reddy the cat's partner from the animated series (Kinda Ruff)
Questionable collection of believers (Iffy Cult)
Chance for a church song (Hymn possible)
Nudges will be posted (and if we cannot find enough posts we will use stanchions instead) on Friday and we will be available by PM for direction or interpretation.
Good luck, and believe me we are sure you will be led astray by words intended to deceive.
Nudges - YAY!!!
Nudge 1] As usual the title gives away the mechanism, but admittedly it is subtle here
Nudge 2] The meta answer is 8 letters long
Nudge 3] Sometimes the path lies in the answers, sometimes in the clues, and sometimes...
Nudge 4] Are their 8 things that you might identify as themers based on a characteristic
Nudge 5] When have you EVER known either of us to be succinct?
Checking for previous play data...
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Place to get a shot of drum
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Across
- 1APlace to get a shot of drum
- 4A"The Addams Family" hired hand
- 9APart of QED that could be an electronic vermin?
- 13AHeart
- 14AAsian capital where you pay someone to lead you to tasty soup; fee, find, pho, yum
- 15ADairy
- 16AGulf port that might help abet?
- 17AMary who won an Oscar for playing Brigid O'Shaughnessy in "The Maltese Falcon"
- 18ACanoe
- 19AFighter with a "Sonny" disposition
- 21ACub or Phil, e.g.
- 23AStart of something lude?
- 24ATurn red in a tub
- 26A[It's like I just touched an eel because I'm shocked!!!!!]
- 29ATitle for the Grinch or a blue Beatles villain
- 31AAmtrak train whose name implies the rate at which it gets up to speed
- 33AFull of tricks (I ate too much cereal - now I'm full of Trix)
- 35AIf your lease on the Bentley runs out, is that the ___ of luxury?
- 37AArtist famous for his ballerinas (and constantly with his foot on the accelerator)
- 38A"That last clue hurt!"
- 40AWhat you might see above a football stadium if they are having a Good Year
- 42AWhat all five cats did when they tried to swim in the Seine
- 43AYou might tell him, "Hey, you're not Sigmund!"
- 45AIf I put plastic on the bottom of the Atlantic would that be an ___ liner?
- 47A"Did you go to the oxygen convention? It's a ___!"
- 48AOld mobsters dated high-energy "goils", but this is a high-energy coil
- 49A"Hurry up! We're going out to the pub for some beef ___ stew!"
- 51AIf your horse does it, you'll end up on it
- 52AWhat I was left with when the Brit told me to "Get the L off their land!"
- 53AAmong aging United Daughters of the Confederacy, what might cause a change from gray to blue
- 56AHe didn't have a #16 Billboard Hot 100 hit in 1970, but his roommate did
- 58APieces of eight
- 59AWalking around money in Mexico
- 62A"It's elemental, my dear Empedocles"
- 65A"___ happens", and a pimple certainly does
- 66AIs a chapel by the seaside a room with ___?
- 67AUdderly destroy
- 68AFlower that is often associated with Cleopatra
- 69ADarling of Dudley Do-Right's desires
- 70ATeen's secret place
- 71AWell, it's not PC but he has designs on you
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- 1DWhat a thinker!
- 2D"Clearly, this violin is heavy. So, now, ___"
- 3DStudent to whom I might offer a Mento
- 4DOlden days, with a Southern twang
- 5DType of bro that makes board games
- 6DIt's good for a CFO but bad for a QB
- 7DWho's laughing at our puns now?
- 8DMiss going to church
- 9DType of suspenders that Dorothy's aunt in the Wizard of Oz accepts enthusiastically
- 10D1982 Duran Duran hit
- 11DYou can have your Pie___ mode, but it might be ___ carte
- 12DBuy on B'way
- 13DGolden State to the hipsters
- 20DA test you end up talking about
- 22D"Good golly!"
- 24DWhat people might call out, perhaps twice, when the salsa is running out
- 25D"My wish is your command!"
- 27DPlatform that experienced a Sonic boom
- 28DWhat should probably be the main course
- 30D"Are we gonna apprehend him for that? Nah, let's just turn it around and ban him."
- 32DPleas
- 33DAnother adjective for a warm kitty
- 34DSiren
- 36DFix-up online?
- 39DPoi container wrapped in a grass skirt (or an actual college football game)
- 41DSomething brought into the office by the Thai stenographer
- 44DWhat you might choose if you can't handle the truth
- 46DHe stops all the traffic
- 50DLong list of complaints ("___ complaints on fire lately?")
- 52DDeveloper of a method to ping someone during a game
- 54DInert
- 55DWhen traveling from Mexico to Cuba, this is the way to go
- 57DMailroom abbrev. I use when I'm listening to my compact disc again
- 58DGymnasium where a German physicist goes to practice resistance training ("I wasn't expecting that!")
- 59DRoast
- 60DNight
- 61DA very bright note of the octave
- 63DStephen who always brings a little bit of hope to a movie
- 64DPart of a mean practice done before people leave town