Puzzle #61 "No-bunny compares to you đ°"
â · By Philip Chow · Published 2023-03-20T01:23:23.005Z
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- 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 â 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.
- Whew! 28A28ANetwork that airs "Love It or List It" and "Flip or Flop"[----] / 29D29DAlternative to "go home"[-----] nearly forced me to show the across clues. I'd assumed HDTV, but then remembered the HGTV28ANetwork that airs "Love It or List It" and "Flip or Flop"[----] contests.
That was a fun theme. Thanks! - Lots of fun, and I love learning things from puzzles - thanks for the enjoyment and the education!
- whimsy 11:49 · 2023-03-20T20:37:10.919ZI'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!
- I wasnât familiar with the book, thanks for sharing it looks insanely cute!
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- 1ALackluster
- 6ALetters at the end of a mathematical proof (from Latin for "which was to be demonstrated")
- 9AJames ___ Space Telescope (hint: name sounds like something a spider makes)
- 13AFirst place mentioned in the Beach Boys song "Kokomo"
- 14APalindromic Eskimo knife
- 15AThe name of the bear in "The Jungle Book" who sings "The Bare Necessities"
- 16AWhere to pin a pin
- 17AYoung assistants in a Catholic church
- 19ARaid and OFF!
- 21AFollow your gut instinct?
- 22APETA concerns
- 23AQuick warm-up activities at team-building workshops
- 28ANetwork that airs "Love It or List It" and "Flip or Flop"
- 32A___ Heights (disputed Mideast area that is an anagram of âalongâ)
- 33AShirt from a merch stand
- 34ATaunting exclamation
- 35A2023, for China but not for Vietnam (and a hint to the shaded squares)
- 40APortion of butter
- 41AQuintana ___ (Mexican state that's home to CancĂșn)
- 42A"Common Sense" pamphleteer Thomas
- 43A___ leches cake (dessert made with three kinds of milk: evaporated, condensed, and whole)
- 45AThey're hidden in movies/TV shows/video games by the creator and left for fans to discover and enjoy (references, clues and/or jokes)
- 48AWord with "two" or "three" to describe a sloth
- 50AIkura, tobiko or masago on a sushi menu
- 51AIts address is 10236 Charing Cross Road in Los Angeles
- 58ADoes something so shockingly appalling that people wish they can unsee it
- 59A"Righty tighty, lefty loosey" subject
- 61AGold bar
- 62AUnspecified degree, in math
- 63ABuzzing instrument
- 64ANatalie Portman's debut movie in which a professional hitman takes in a 12-year old girl as his protégé (hint: anagram of 10-Down10DMusk who bought Twitter for $44 billion last year[----] or 52-Down52DKind of wolf[----])
- 65ANot straight, perhaps
- 66AHole ___ (golfer's dream shot)
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- 1DName of the AI host in Fox Reality Channel's game show "Solitary"
- 2DMany a Middle Easterner or North African
- 3D___ platter (Americanized Chinese appetizers that may include egg rolls, spare ribs, crab rangoon, and coconut shrimp)
- 4D"___ your pardon?"
- 5DFrom 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
- 6DCrystal in some watches
- 7DFitzgerald known as the "Queen of Jazz"
- 8DLike some airport purchases
- 9DRiver in Indiana's state song
- 10DMusk who bought Twitter for $44 billion last year
- 11DWoody's last name on "Cheers" (the bartender in the show, not the real life actor who played him who is also named Woody)
- 12DBig cheese or top banana
- 15D"I'm f-f-freezing!"
- 18DPlayground bully, for example
- 20D___ 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)
- 23DCountry that my friend Yim vacationed in and got me a glow-in-the-dark camel figurine as a souvenir
- 24DLack of musical talent
- 25DFill with joy
- 26DPalindromic, growly-sounding compressed file format (alternative to .zip)
- 27DCultural values
- 29DAlternative to "go home"
- 30DObject
- 31DCampaign goal
- 36DNo longer burdened by
- 37DBrown-nosing
- 38DRelaxation period after hitting the slopes
- 39DTerm of endearment similar to "boo"
- 44D"Sophie's Choice" novelist William
- 46DLike reality shows one may watch as a guilty pleasure
- 47DLargest division of geologic time
- 49D"In memoriam" bio
- 51DThe name of that groundhog in Punxsutawney that (not so accurately) predicted six more weeks of winter this year
- 52DKind of wolf
- 53DShip in search of the Golden Fleece
- 54DWhat Facebook changed its name to in 2021
- 55D"___ 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")
- 56DPasta that might slip through a colander
- 57DLike some vividly colored retro clothing
- 60DInner turmoil
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