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Puzzle #61 "No-bunny compares to you 🐰"

◆ · By Philip Chow · Published 2023-03-20T01:23:23.005Z

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  • Philip Chow constructor · 2023-03-20T01:34:05.739Z
    Constructor's note: This was one of the first puzzles I ever made and the first puzzle I submitted to the NY Times (12 years ago and a much earlier and cruder version). A rejection letter turned me away from making puzzles for awhile, but I'm happy I got back into it. This is a revamped version of the puzzle with updated clues.
    Fun fact: Vietnam and China share 10 of the zodiac calendar's 12 signs — the rat, tiger, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. But the Vietnamese honor the cat instead of the rabbit, and the water buffalo instead of the ox.
    • Capn Rick 13:21 · 2023-03-20T01:45:58.374Z
      Nice one, Philip! I enjoyed it a lot.
      • LCL 👇26:36 · 2023-03-20T03:40:33.204Z
        Whew! 28A / 29D nearly forced me to show the across clues. I'd assumed HDTV, but then remembered the HGTV contests.
        That was a fun theme. Thanks!
        • Philip Chow constructor · 2023-03-20T17:33:22.051Z
          Downs only! Damn that’s impressive
        • JeffsPuzzles đŸ€“4:16 · 2023-03-20T12:10:56.308Z
          Lots of fun, and I love learning things from puzzles - thanks for the enjoyment and the education!
          • whimsy 11:49 · 2023-03-20T20:37:10.919Z
            I'm all about the bunnies so I had to try this one. very nice! I think you could've shaded 40D too for the famous "Pat the Bunny" children's touchy-feely board book! I always took the title to mean that the toy bunny's name was Pat as much as it referred to the action of patting it! :P
            • Philip Chow constructor · 2023-03-21T15:32:39.363Z
              I wasn’t familiar with the book, thanks for sharing it looks insanely cute!
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              Lackluster
            2. 6A
              Letters at the end of a mathematical proof (from Latin for "which was to be demonstrated")
            3. 9A
              James ___ Space Telescope (hint: name sounds like something a spider makes)
            4. 13A
              First place mentioned in the Beach Boys song "Kokomo"
            5. 14A
              Palindromic Eskimo knife
            6. 15A
              The name of the bear in "The Jungle Book" who sings "The Bare Necessities"
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              Where to pin a pin
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              Young assistants in a Catholic church
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              Raid and OFF!
            10. 21A
              Follow your gut instinct?
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              PETA concerns
            12. 23A
              Quick warm-up activities at team-building workshops
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              Network that airs "Love It or List It" and "Flip or Flop"
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              ___ Heights (disputed Mideast area that is an anagram of “along”)
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              Shirt from a merch stand
            16. 34A
              Taunting exclamation
            17. 35A
              2023, for China but not for Vietnam (and a hint to the shaded squares)
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              Portion of butter
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              Quintana ___ (Mexican state that's home to CancĂșn)
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              "Common Sense" pamphleteer Thomas
            21. 43A
              ___ leches cake (dessert made with three kinds of milk: evaporated, condensed, and whole)
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              They're hidden in movies/TV shows/video games by the creator and left for fans to discover and enjoy (references, clues and/or jokes)
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              Word with "two" or "three" to describe a sloth
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              Ikura, tobiko or masago on a sushi menu
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              Its address is 10236 Charing Cross Road in Los Angeles
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              Does something so shockingly appalling that people wish they can unsee it
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              Gold bar
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              Unspecified degree, in math
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              Buzzing instrument
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              Natalie Portman's debut movie in which a professional hitman takes in a 12-year old girl as his protégé (hint: anagram of 10-Down or 52-Down)
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              Not straight, perhaps
            33. 66A
              Hole ___ (golfer's dream shot)
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              Name of the AI host in Fox Reality Channel's game show "Solitary"
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              Many a Middle Easterner or North African
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              ___ platter (Americanized Chinese appetizers that may include egg rolls, spare ribs, crab rangoon, and coconut shrimp)
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              "___ your pardon?"
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              From Italian for "from the sign" and often abbreviated as D.S. in musical notation, it is used as a direction to repeat a passage starting from the sign
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              Crystal in some watches
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              Fitzgerald known as the "Queen of Jazz"
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              Like some airport purchases
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              River in Indiana's state song
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              Musk who bought Twitter for $44 billion last year
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              Woody's last name on "Cheers" (the bartender in the show, not the real life actor who played him who is also named Woody)
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              Big cheese or top banana
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              "I'm f-f-freezing!" đŸ„¶
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              Playground bully, for example
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              ___ gow poker (gambling game in which the object is to create a five-card poker hand and a two-card poker hand from seven cards that beat both of the bank's hands)
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              Country that my friend Yim vacationed in and got me a glow-in-the-dark camel figurine as a souvenir
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              Lack of musical talent
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              Fill with joy
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              Palindromic, growly-sounding compressed file format (alternative to .zip)
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              Cultural values
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              Alternative to "go home"
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              Relaxation period after hitting the slopes
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              Term of endearment similar to "boo"
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              "Sophie's Choice" novelist William
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              Like reality shows one may watch as a guilty pleasure
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              Largest division of geologic time
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              "In memoriam" bio
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              The name of that groundhog in Punxsutawney that (not so accurately) predicted six more weeks of winter this year
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              Kind of wolf
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              Ship in search of the Golden Fleece
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              What Facebook changed its name to in 2021
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              "___ buy myself flowers / Write my name in the sand / Talk to myself for hours, yeah / Say things you don't understand" (lyrics from Miley Cyrus's "Flowers")
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              Pasta that might slip through a colander
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              Like some vividly colored retro clothing
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              Inner turmoil
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