The Puzzle of Enormous Proportions
◆◆ · By Frisco17 · Published 2023-05-22T03:21:29.327Z
Constructor's Note
a puzzle that didn't make the cut for the newest lemonade disco
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"A rock 'n' roll dance song about racial harmony," per Epic Records
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Across
- 1A"A rock 'n' roll dance song about racial harmony," per Epic Records
- 5AHyped about
- 12ASupport beams
- 15AMuscles worked out with diamond pushups and bar pushdowns, to gymnasts
- 16AMore like a squid, in a way
- 17AGet older
- 18AStart to many an AMA
- 19AGroups who always horse around?
- 20AFrench thing in the water that's a homophone of a different thing in the water
- 21ASong by The Turtles that came out a year after a Beatles song of a similar name
- 23A"F"
- 24AThe 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
- 25A"Still ___" (rap song with an iconic piano vamp)
- 26AThai noodle dish that translates to "fried with soy sauce" and not "Jeez, you live like this?"
- 28AError
- 32ANickname that drops a "demona"
- 33AGlass of radio
- 34ATo be in Equatorial Guinea?
- 35AFigures out
- 39ACertain 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?
- 43AMost like a squid, in a way
- 44AGame akin to Apples to Apples, for short
- 45ARapper ___ Spice
- 46A"It means a ___"
- 47ADemand from a horny Frenchman, or, when tripled, a classic holiday song
- 50APlace where they make maki
- 53AFollower of "alley" or "and I"
- 54AIt's a real piece of work!
- 55AGrp. who made the bases 3 inches bigger this year
- 56AWork for
- 60ACurrent zone in Massachusetts, for short
- 61ADog that's a letter swapulation away from a brand of marker
- 63AIsland that sounds like what you might say when you have fun surfing there
- 64A"Disgustang!," old-style
- 65ABrains
- 66A"I ___ the sheet, the sheet I ___, upon the ___ted sheet I sit" (tongue twister)
- 67AOne from Wandsworth or Waltham Forest, maybe
- 68ACourt recess, perhaps?
- 69ACoop
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- 1DFormal, as an affair
- 2DMouthy?
- 3DWord for frost that's not a rhyme of "rhyme" but rather a homophone which I would argue is even cooler
- 4DMake-up of much of a New Mexico national park
- 5DDoppio and lungo, for two
- 6D___ vera
- 7DJazz musician Evans whose name rhymes with a different jazz musician Evans
- 8DWicca Phase Springs Eternal genre
- 9DCVS competitor
- 10DC's and F's, say
- 11DPlaces called "theaters" (Abbr.)
- 12DGoes feral
- 13DResidual happiness
- 14DGets it
- 22DGalena, e.g.
- 24DGet ready for a long drive
- 26DOffender
- 27DWhirlpool
- 28DBottled water brand
- 29DSamus of Metroid
- 30DBlah
- 31D"u up", e.g.
- 35D"Dadgummit!"
- 36DOne from the only African country to never be colonized
- 37D___2K (singer who's a part of Drain Gang)
- 38DBias
- 40DStand
- 41D___ Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston hospital)
- 42DAspire maker
- 47DTar pit locale
- 48DWord before billing or banana
- 49DSound of a 27-Down, perhaps
- 50DSink of Stranger Things
- 51DGrammatically incorrect gushy remark about one's boyfriend, in memes
- 52DBoom
- 54DNickname for a notable 2018 Travolta role
- 56DChocolate bar that once had the slogan "Hold on tight or I'll fly away!"
- 57DHome to Connecticut Hall
- 58DLike a Mint, one would assume
- 59DTurlet
- 61DRidicule, with "at"
- 62D___ Kids Go! (channel aimed toward elementary school kids)