A round the farm
◆ · By Wayne Mesard · Published 2024-12-14T13:13:34.456Z
Meta Prompt
This puzzle’s contest answer is a well-known children's song.
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Sucked...or the opposite of sucked
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- 1ASucked...or the opposite of sucked
- 5AWants real bad
- 11AComputer engineers' org, which when said aloud sounds like you're very surprised about the capital of Libya
- 12A"Am too!" response
- 13AMonotheism
- 15AColl. seniors' test
- 16A"Winnie ___ Pu" (Latin translation that was the first foreign-language book to ever make The New York Times Best Seller list)
- 17A"...where no ___ gone before" (opening credits line from Captain Picard, but not Kirk)
- 20AActor James, who was not a godfather in "The Godfather", not an elf in "Elf", but he was miserable in "Misery"
- 21AReputations
- 22APrefix with meter or grade
- 23AArgued in court
- 24ABerates
- 25ARural prefix
- 26AHe played Opie (1960-68) and Richie (1974-84)
- 27AA second case of Covid, e.g.
- 32AEnthusiastic
- 33AThe only non-metalic weapon in Clue
- 34ATalking to the dead scam
- 35AQuadri- x Bi-?
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- 1DBaby's dinner wear
- 2D"To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper
- 3DAnimal that is sometimes farmed (but not on this puzzle's farm)
- 4DShared one's opinion
- 5DLunch date locales
- 6D"Either he goes ___ go!"
- 7DMi chiamo..., maybe
- 8DPart of Great Britain
- 9D"You missed it!"
- 10DSee 17-Down (Hint: He is depicted here, outside Notre-Dame Cathedral, with his head in his hands, as it were.)
- 14DTour that made Taylor Swift a billionaire
- 17D10-Down, aka the Patron ___
- 18DReusable water bottle brand with a lifetime guarantee
- 19DRetired, as a female professor
- 22DIce cream flavor: abbr.
- 24DGreek island setting for the myth of the Minotaur
- 28DFan-___ (amateur writing)
- 29DSports org. based in Switzerland
- 30DChoose
- 31D"The Matrix" protagonist