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Puzze #60 "Who's hungry?"

◆ · By Philip Chow · Published 2022-10-13T09:13:19.782Z

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  • Philip Chow constructor · 2022-10-13T09:19:59.655Z
    theme explanation: food clued in non-food ways... so you can't eat it (sorry 😭)... you can follow PANCAKE on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/pancakepix/?hl=en and PEANUT at https://www.instagram.com/the.peanut.gallery._/?hl=en
    • Capn Rick 🤓12:28 · 2022-10-13T12:57:01.412Z
      Nice job, Philip! Great theme density, symmetry, and fun cluing.
      • Philip Chow constructor · 2022-10-13T18:21:21.061Z
        Thanks Cap’n - I tried to keep the clues fun since the fill isn’t so clean (partials, abbreviations, foreign language entries)
      • SporcleMirror 🤓6:13 · 2022-10-13T15:44:50.670Z
        UNAU joins the ACAI OREO EDIE ARIA OLEO etc. club!
        According to https://www.xwordinfo.com/Finder it has appeared a whopping 70 times in the NYT, but never in Shortz Era puzzles.
        • Philip Chow constructor · 2022-10-13T18:16:21.482Z
          Reminds me of ANOA… another animal I try to keep out of my grid unless I’m super desperate 😜
          • SporcleMirror 🤓6:13 · 2022-10-13T20:25:02.243Z
            I can see why you needed that to fill the grid (the final U as a theme square is quite restrictive). But in a puzzle like this, it looks like there are so many ways to NOT include it.
        • emmie 🤓7:11 · 2022-10-14T05:10:36.105Z
          Very fun! (And adorable doggies :))
          • Andrea 🤓17:22 · 2022-10-14T08:25:12.777Z
            I loved it, thank you!
            • Wally 🤓9:21 · 2022-10-14T18:50:03.255Z
              Nice puzzle
              • Kent 🤓15:00 · 2023-01-12T02:17:04.119Z
                I just finished going down a very enjoyable rabbit hole - doing everyone of of Philip Chow’s puzzles on the Crosshare web site. These puzzles are such consistently high quality and fun to solve. Just the right level of challenge. Great work! I hope you’ll get back to constructing more!
                • Philip Chow constructor · 2023-02-16T02:40:23.397Z
                  awww thank you for the kind words... i plan to get back into releasing more puzzles soon... just been pretty busy with work and life lately
                Play today's daily mini crossword
                1A
                They don't really weigh more than fat, they're just more dense
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                Across
                1. 1A
                  They don't really weigh more than fat, they're just more dense
                2. 8A
                  Bouncers check them
                3. 15A
                  Fit as a fiddle
                4. 16A
                  Online tracking devices
                5. 17A
                  S'more-toasting site
                6. 18A
                  White-furred weasels
                7. 19A
                  Mentally pooped coward?
                8. 21A
                  Distress signal
                9. 22A
                  Thumbs-down votes
                10. 23A
                  Feathered scarf
                11. 26A
                  Compressed video file format
                12. 28A
                  Measure of a country's economic output: Abbr.
                13. 29A
                  "Today, I don't feel like doing anything / ___ wanna lay in my bed" (lyrics from Bruno Mars's "The Lazy Song")
                14. 31A
                  Stereotypical robot sound
                15. 32A
                  Latin for "I love"
                16. 33A
                  ___ many (that drink you shouldn't have had last night and now you're hungover for your 9AM meeting)
                17. 34A
                  Two-toed sloth (made up of 75% vowels... the three-toed sloth "ai" is 100% vowels)
                18. 35A
                  Philosopher attributed with the phrase "knowledge is power"
                19. 37A
                  Contents of some envelopes: Abbr.
                20. 38A
                  Debatable phenomenon that when guys have a cold, they experience symptoms of greater severity than when girls do
                21. 40A
                  Ship initials before Beagle or Bounty
                22. 41A
                  Part of a microscope
                23. 42A
                  German for "I probe" (hint: sounds like a measure of alcohol that is twice the percentage of ABV, for example 80 for 47-Down)
                24. 43A
                  Type of economy for Uber drivers, Task rabbits, and freelance crossword puzzle constructors
                25. 44A
                  Drone stabilizer, for short
                26. 45A
                  "Are we there ___?" (favorite question asked repeatedly by kids in the backseat)
                27. 46A
                  Cosmetics company named after the river in Shakespeare's hometown
                28. 48A
                  ___ XING (street sign)
                29. 49A
                  "Let's raise a glass to the magical goodness behind guacamole. Without you, California rolls will never be the same. You make 'es alpukat' (Indonesian iced coffee drink) thick and creamy. You're the healthiest fat I know and I love you every day. Cheers!"
                30. 54A
                  Excited reply to "Want some ice cream?" or "Wanna play with my puppy?"
                31. 57A
                  Jail cell component
                32. 58A
                  Completely smoosh (shout-out to Alyssa's puppy)
                33. 59A
                  Super sexy, in slang (from Spanish for "on fire")
                34. 60A
                  1997 Spielberg film based on the events of an 1839 slave mutiny ship (whose name means "friendship," ironically)
                35. 61A
                  Like toilet paper that is the least abrasive for your butt
                Down
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                  Rub the wrong way
                2. 2D
                  French for "to unite"
                3. 3D
                  Type of drug used to treat depression such as Prozac or Zoloft: Abbr.
                4. 4D
                  Exploit a glitch in the game design to easily win a battle against the magic dragon who lived by the sea (in a town called Honah Lee)?
                5. 5D
                  Pomeranian or Shih Tzu (small cuddly companion you can hold while sitting down, like 58-Across and 27-Down)
                6. 6D
                  Heroic tales
                7. 7D
                  MacFarlane of "The Orville"
                8. 8D
                  Global warming concern
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                  Foolishly silly, sometimes in an endearingly adorable way
                10. 10D
                  Crosses the threshold
                11. 11D
                  Analogous (to)
                12. 12D
                  ___ Tin Tin (Old Hollywood film dog)
                13. 13D
                  Tweedle ___ and Tweedle Dum of "Alice in Wonderland"
                14. 14D
                  Military draft agency: Abbr.
                15. 20D
                  Where the Mekong flows
                16. 23D
                  Flatter, with "up"
                17. 24D
                  Highly active volcano in the Chilean Andes
                18. 25D
                  It's ___-up (fifty-fifty chance)
                19. 26D
                  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all ___ created equal" (line from the U.S. Declaration of Independence)
                20. 27D
                  Styrofoam-like packaging pellet (shout-out to Yim's puppy)
                21. 28D
                  ABC daytime show co-anchored by George Stephanopoulos, for short
                22. 30D
                  Driving maneuver that's totally envious that its skid marks are not as round and pronounced as others?
                23. 31D
                  Like a rocky road
                24. 32D
                  Monkey in Disney's "Aladdin"
                25. 33D
                  Strap-___ (kinky sex toys)
                26. 36D
                  "LOL, I can't even!"
                27. 39D
                  ___ the altar (get cold feet and jilt the person you were going to marry)
                28. 43D
                  Start admitting both boys and girls, as Stuyvesant High School did in 1969
                29. 44D
                  "___ my lawn!" (what a grumpy elderly homeowner yells at kids trespassing on their property)
                30. 47D
                  Gin's Black Organization partner in "Detective Conan" and underling of Vermouth and Rum
                31. 48D
                  X-rated stuff
                32. 49D
                  "Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden ___. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds" (quote from Cleo McDowell in "Coming to America")
                33. 50D
                  Goes kaput, as a car battery
                34. 51D
                  "Float like a butterfly, sting like ___" (Muhammad Ali catchphrase)
                35. 52D
                  Succumbs to gravity
                36. 53D
                  What your horse does when you roll the ball into one of the holes in the middle section in a classic horse-racing carnival game (the farthest section makes it run and the nearest section makes it walk)
                37. 54D
                  System of speech sound notation: Abbr. (my name would be represented as /ˈfɪlɪp/)
                38. 55D
                  Carly's best friend on "iCarly"
                39. 56D
                  Prefix for "form" or "verse"
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