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Puzzle #41 "Ling! How 'bout Ling?"

◆ · By Philip Chow · Published 7 months ago

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  • Philip Chow constructor · 7 months ago
    🥟theme explanation🥟 - read DUMPLING
    24AOne of my favorite things in the world to eat (or when parsed differently, how we ended up with the wacky answers to the starred clues)[--------]
    as "dump ling," removing "ling" from the base phrases: ink(ling) of hope = INKOFHOPE
    34A*Promising tattoo?[---------]
    , pipe coup(ling) = PIPECOUP
    49A*Overflow overthrow?[--------]
    , dang(ling) modifier = DANGMODIFIER
    4D*"Doggone descriptor!"[------------]
    , finger(ling) potato = FINGERPOTATO
    23D*ID the guilty spud in a lineup?[------------]
    • emmie 🤓6:56 · 7 months ago
      Loved it!
      Play today's daily mini crossword
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      1. 1A
        Poke
      2. 5A
        Where Zimbabwe is
      3. 11A
        Some undergrad degrees: Abbr.
      4. 14A
        Capital of Fiji
      5. 15A
        Came in second, in horse-racing lingo
      6. 16A
        1977 Sex Pistols song written as a "diss track" to the record label that dropped them
      7. 17A
        What Scrooge might have been called by his pals (if he'd had any)
      8. 18A
        Comes undone, as knitting
      9. 19A
        Sanders of KFC or Mustard of the board game Clue: Abbr.
      10. 20A
        Ship's goods
      11. 22A
        McDonald's "happy" offering that comes with a toy
      12. 23A
        "Watch out!," on a golf course
      13. 24A
        One of my favorite things in the world to eat (or when parsed differently, how we ended up with the wacky answers to the starred clues)
      14. 26A
        Pumbaa's friend in "The Lion King"
      15. 27A
        Grand Slam event in two different sports
      16. 28A
        "The Importance of Being ___" (Oscar Wilde play)
      17. 30A
        37% of Americans habitually make theirs in the morning (per a YouGov poll... do you?)
      18. 31A
        "It's ___!" (thumbs-up reply)
      19. 33A
        Has trouble swallowing
      20. 34A
        *Promising tattoo?
      21. 37A
        Smother, as sound
      22. 40A
        Word ___ word (verbatim)
      23. 41A
        Time off, in military slang: Abbr.
      24. 44A
        Data that erroneously fall inside a statistical distribution
      25. 46A
        Asian capital nicknamed the City of Azaleas
      26. 48A
        Display disdain, in a way
      27. 49A
        *Overflow overthrow?
      28. 51A
        Word with "drop" or "jerker"
      29. 52A
        Spanish sparkling wine (which means "cave" in Spanish)
      30. 53A
        Sheer, as madness
      31. 55A
        Spherical body
      32. 56A
        Dull
      33. 58A
        River visible from the Uffizi Gallery
      34. 59A
        Fertility clinic stock
      35. 60A
        Creates anew, as a password
      36. 61A
        What "ten" refers to in the surfing term "hang ten"
      37. 62A
        It may be tapped at a party
      38. 63A
        Ukrainian city nicknamed "Pearl of the Black Sea"
      39. 64A
        Giorgio Armani fragrance whose name is French for “wave”
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        1/60 of a trillionth of a minute: Abbr.
      2. 2D
        Start of a children's rhyme featuring a butcher, a baker, and a candlestick maker
      3. 3D
        Make hackneyed
      4. 4D
        *"Doggone descriptor!"
      5. 5D
        0% ___ financing (car commercial phrase)
      6. 6D
        Bird that is born gray whose feathers turn pink due to all the shrimp it eats
      7. 7D
        Bird that is born black whose feathers appear dark blue in the sunlight due to iridescence
      8. 8D
        2002 animated film with Manny the Mammoth
      9. 9D
        The one thing about an amoeba?
      10. 10D
        They're shown before some YouTube vids, unless you pay for YouTube Premium
      11. 11D
        "Mourning ___ Electra" (Eugene O'Neill play)
      12. 12D
        Sweetened Spanish sherry (which means "loving" in Spanish)
      13. 13D
        It's found in "damn" but not "damnation," autumn" but not "autumnal"
      14. 21D
        Versus: Abbr.
      15. 23D
        *ID the guilty spud in a lineup?
      16. 25D
        One who spills secrets
      17. 26D
        Tourist ___ (attraction rip-off)
      18. 29D
        Ancient Greek marketplaces [of the two plural forms, it's the one that doesn't end in "s"]
      19. 32D
        Not quite right
      20. 35D
        Prior to 2022 (before instituting the universal DH), one without a designated hitter in his league: Abbr.
      21. 36D
        Very short shorts
      22. 37D
        Thought someone was someone else
      23. 38D
        Shake someone's confidence
      24. 39D
        Run-down hotel
      25. 42D
        It's free of charge, or Boy Genius Jimmy of 2000s Nickelodeon cartoon
      26. 43D
        Became perfectly juicy, as a mango
      27. 45D
        Few and far between
      28. 47D
        Hospital area for those in critical condition: Abbr.
      29. 50D
        Cornell and seven others
      30. 52D
        What Stuyvesant High School became in 1969
      31. 54D
        State flower of New York
      32. 56D
        Dude
      33. 57D
        Government procurement organization: Abbr.
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