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The Puzzle of Enormous Proportions

◆◆ · By Frisco17 · Published 2023-05-22T03:21:29.327Z

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a puzzle that didn't make the cut for the newest lemonade disco
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  • kurtalert 19:50 · 2023-05-22T17:39:17.701Z
    the rebuses made this pretty hard! took a while to figure some of these out. thanks for the puzzle!
    • Kikistreams 58:53 · 2023-05-23T00:30:07.241Z
      Wha yg qrgnonbmowkmbnghmw; mmhkhtm (Very good i like)
      • frostyjhammer 30:59 · 2023-05-24T04:27:00.181Z
        LOL @ 68!
        • mimka 50:23 · 2023-05-30T20:31:58.992Z
          Superfan! Clever clues, love the rebuses
          1A
          "A rock 'n' roll dance song about racial harmony," per Epic Records
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          Across
          1. 1A
            "A rock 'n' roll dance song about racial harmony," per Epic Records
          2. 5A
            Hyped about
          3. 12A
            Support beams
          4. 15A
            Muscles worked out with diamond pushups and bar pushdowns, to gymnasts
          5. 16A
            More like a squid, in a way
          6. 17A
            Get older
          7. 18A
            Start to many an AMA
          8. 19A
            Groups who always horse around?
          9. 20A
            French thing in the water that's a homophone of a different thing in the water
          10. 21A
            Song by The Turtles that came out a year after a Beatles song of a similar name
          11. 23A
            "F"
          12. 24A
            The rest of the world calls General Gao's chicken General this, which I didn't know until solving crosswords and now I just feel isolated from everybody else
          13. 25A
            "Still ___" (rap song with an iconic piano vamp)
          14. 26A
            Thai noodle dish that translates to "fried with soy sauce" and not "Jeez, you live like this?"
          15. 28A
            Error
          16. 32A
            Nickname that drops a "demona"
          17. 33A
            Glass of radio
          18. 34A
            To be in Equatorial Guinea?
          19. 35A
            Figures out
          20. 39A
            Certain set of group games... or a hint to 4 squares on the left half of the grid, followed by a hint to 3 squares on the right half of the grid?
          21. 43A
            Most like a squid, in a way
          22. 44A
            Game akin to Apples to Apples, for short
          23. 45A
            Rapper ___ Spice
          24. 46A
            "It means a ___"
          25. 47A
            Demand from a horny Frenchman, or, when tripled, a classic holiday song
          26. 50A
            Place where they make maki
          27. 53A
            Follower of "alley" or "and I"
          28. 54A
            It's a real piece of work!
          29. 55A
            Grp. who made the bases 3 inches bigger this year
          30. 56A
            Work for
          31. 60A
            Current zone in Massachusetts, for short
          32. 61A
            Dog that's a letter swapulation away from a brand of marker
          33. 63A
            Island that sounds like what you might say when you have fun surfing there
          34. 64A
            "Disgustang!," old-style
          35. 65A
            Brains
          36. 66A
            "I ___ the sheet, the sheet I ___, upon the ___ted sheet I sit" (tongue twister)
          37. 67A
            One from Wandsworth or Waltham Forest, maybe
          38. 68A
            Court recess, perhaps?
          39. 69A
            Coop
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            Formal, as an affair
          2. 2D
            Mouthy?
          3. 3D
            Word for frost that's not a rhyme of "rhyme" but rather a homophone which I would argue is even cooler
          4. 4D
            Make-up of much of a New Mexico national park
          5. 5D
            Doppio and lungo, for two
          6. 6D
            ___ vera
          7. 7D
            Jazz musician Evans whose name rhymes with a different jazz musician Evans
          8. 8D
            Wicca Phase Springs Eternal genre
          9. 9D
            CVS competitor
          10. 10D
            C's and F's, say
          11. 11D
            Places called "theaters" (Abbr.)
          12. 12D
            Goes feral
          13. 13D
            Residual happiness
          14. 14D
            Gets it
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            Galena, e.g.
          16. 24D
            Get ready for a long drive
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            Offender
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            Whirlpool
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            Bottled water brand
          20. 29D
            Samus of Metroid
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            Blah
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            "u up", e.g.
          23. 35D
            "Dadgummit!"
          24. 36D
            One from the only African country to never be colonized
          25. 37D
            ___2K (singer who's a part of Drain Gang)
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            Bias
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            Stand
          28. 41D
            ___ Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston hospital)
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            Aspire maker
          30. 47D
            Tar pit locale
          31. 48D
            Word before billing or banana
          32. 49D
            Sound of a 27-Down, perhaps
          33. 50D
            Sink of Stranger Things
          34. 51D
            Grammatically incorrect gushy remark about one's boyfriend, in memes
          35. 52D
            Boom
          36. 54D
            Nickname for a notable 2018 Travolta role
          37. 56D
            Chocolate bar that once had the slogan "Hold on tight or I'll fly away!"
          38. 57D
            Home to Connecticut Hall
          39. 58D
            Like a Mint, one would assume
          40. 59D
            Turlet
          41. 61D
            Ridicule, with "at"
          42. 62D
            ___ Kids Go! (channel aimed toward elementary school kids)
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