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Themeless #10

· By SporcleMirror · Published 2023-06-18T14:10:31.277Z

My first attempt at what I like to call a "snaking" themeless grid, i. e. one of those grid designs that tends to have subpar short fill. You've been warned.
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  • carter 🤓7:54 · 2023-06-18T18:50:05.736Z
    very cool grid shape, and nice stacks! love 14A especially
    • kieranjboyd 🤓13:47 · 2023-06-18T22:22:55.468Z
      Glad I persevered!
      • JeffsPuzzles 🤓7:02 · 2023-06-19T20:51:18.781Z
        I CAME, I saw, I conquered - and had a lot of fun doing it. Thanks for sharing!
        • Kent 🤓15:20 · 2023-06-20T12:22:40.743Z
          That was a great workout!! Just one small toe hold after another, and really delightful clues and answers!
          • Wally 🤓13:41 · 2023-07-14T22:22:20.737Z
            Very good puzzle! Loved the long stacks
            1A
            On a quick vacation
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            Across
            1. 1A
              On a quick vacation
            2. 12A
              One of the Big Three
            3. 14A
              Follow-up to a terrible pun, perhaps
            4. 16A
              Earth visitors
            5. 17A
              Overcome inhibitions
            6. 18A
              Mil. no-show
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              Orders to attack, with "on"
            8. 23A
              Chef d' ____ (political leader, in French)
            9. 24A
              Unknown in many optimization problems, briefly
            10. 25A
              One may give instructions
            11. 28A
              Fool's gold, for one
            12. 29A
              School access hurdle
            13. 32A
              Tailor for
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              Pro fighter controller
            15. 36A
              Kid-friendly game rating
            16. 39A
              Ray-ban initials?
            17. 42A
              Operation that requires numbers?
            18. 43A
              Miss no longer, briefly
            19. 44A
              Blue genre namesake
            20. 46A
              Jumpers Down Under
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              Run, with "it"
            22. 48A
              Actress Maples or Gibbs
            23. 50A
              Game with a dummy
            24. 52A
              Activity trackers with a sweet-sounding name
            25. 57A
              Was collected
            26. 58A
              Nautical metaphor for totality
            Down
            1. 1D
              Big name in canned vegetables
            2. 2D
              Adams known for national park shots
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              Hurl, slangily
            4. 4D
              Latin number after duo
            5. 5D
              Ovine butter?
            6. 6D
              Romantic letters
            7. 7D
              Cabinet heads, briefly
            8. 8D
              Poet who said about himself “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity”
            9. 9D
              "____ Be Okay" (Shawn Mendes single)
            10. 10D
              Free of charge
            11. 11D
              The Amalfi Coast's Emerald ____
            12. 12D
              Like many obvious weak spots on video game bosses
            13. 13D
              Java addition
            14. 14D
              Words in a historic letter to the Senate
            15. 15D
              Kind of bag
            16. 19D
              Monovocalic Texas city
            17. 20D
              Moniker in a rhyming campaign slogan
            18. 21D
              Drives a wedge into, say
            19. 22D
              Better at drawing, in a way?
            20. 25D
              Hurls
            21. 26D
              Scheduled to play in multiple stadiums, maybe
            22. 27D
              Dawdle
            23. 30D
              Norma who was played by Sally Field
            24. 31D
              Fifth of 12
            25. 34D
              Many a riot
            26. 35D
              Feeling like doing a table flip, perhaps
            27. 37D
              One reason for flexing
            28. 38D
              Colorado's ____ Park
            29. 39D
              ____-trailer truck
            30. 40D
              It's sometimes pulled when pulling the fire alarm
            31. 41D
              Literally "strong" points
            32. 45D
              Idiomatically emulated a log
            33. 47D
              Certain Mario Kart Wii racer who doesn't race in a kart
            34. 49D
              Raffaello and Tiziano's domain
            35. 50D
              It might strike a rod
            36. 51D
              Architect Ludwig van der ____
            37. 53D
              Place for some vets in the '60s
            38. 54D
              Prefix meaning "outer"
            39. 55D
              What "2" sometimes means
            40. 56D
              Function in a Fourier series, for short
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