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Where There Never Was a Puzzle

◆◆ · By acommonrose · Published 2021-12-17T18:08:12.236Z

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Collaboration with Norah Sharpe. Find more of her puzzles at www.norahsharpe.com!
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  • Mike D 🤓12:47 · 2021-12-17T18:30:58.568Z
    Really fun puzzle! Honestly surprised I managed to solve it but I'm really glad I stuck with it 🙌
    • Sommersmith 🤓11:38 · 2021-12-17T18:46:01.766Z
      Brilliant puzzle! I'm glad I remembered seeing the title FINISHINGTHEHAT referenced in a memorial essay or two! Clever theme and the references throughout to Sondheim and musical theater in general were so much fun!
      • Frisco17 🤓12:45 · 2021-12-17T22:56:12.839Z
        My mom helped me on this one since she's a huge theatre geek. Great way to help us bond!
        • Norah 12s · 2021-12-17T23:35:43.605Z
          NICE NICE NICE
          • acommonrose constructor · 2021-12-18T00:42:42.084Z
            12 seconds? It's almost like you knew all the answers already!
          • stbrolaf 🤓13:14 · 2021-12-17T23:21:30.859Z
            encroyable
            • Dob 🤓21:10 · 2021-12-18T00:23:16.033Z
              Weeeee!
              • calica 24:40 · 2021-12-18T04:29:56.696Z
                Took me quite a bit of Google and checking answers because I am not a musical theater person
                • Becca Usuallyproperlyhydrated 19:35 · 2021-12-19T20:35:44.521Z
                  This was definitely up my alley :)
                  • hbxwords 🤓4:50 · 2022-03-31T05:07:38.024Z
                    Encore, encore!
                    • susan802 13:01 · 2022-04-04T22:43:44.177Z
                      Nice one!
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                      Company behind "Street Fighter" and "Resident Evil"
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                      Across
                      1. 1A
                        Company behind "Street Fighter" and "Resident Evil"
                      2. 7A
                        Quick jam with the band
                      3. 11A
                        DC player
                      4. 14A
                        Skin care brand advertised by Renee Elise Goldsberry (too bad she doesn't sing in the commercials!)
                      5. 15A
                        Store selling "Sunday II Sunday" hair care products
                      6. 16A
                        16 going on 17, for one
                      7. 17A
                        Fruit ___ (snack that might give you a tattoo)
                      8. 18A
                        Like Benny's style, unlike his tenants in "Rent"
                      9. 20A
                        Pays to play
                      10. 21A
                        "Render ___ Caesar..."
                      11. 22A
                        Word repeated four times in the last verse of "Not Getting Married Today"
                      12. 23A
                        Collectible series that included Flash the Dolphin and Splash the Whale
                      13. 26A
                        Where Sharks and Jets sharpen their blades
                      14. 29A
                        Julieta but not Mirabel, in "Encanto," briefly
                      15. 30A
                        "Wind up an ___" (original title for the play "Merrily We Roll Along")
                      16. 31A
                        "You ___ you loved me, or were you just being kind?"
                      17. 33A
                        Tech. used to disastrous effect in the "Cats" movie
                      18. 35A
                        What Audrey 2 does in "Little Shop of Horrors"
                      19. 39A
                        Sondheim book subtitled "Collected Lyrics with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes" or a hint to 1-Across, 23-Across, 51-Across, and 71-Across
                      20. 43A
                        Take (control)
                      21. 44A
                        Maker of Carnival and Stinger
                      22. 45A
                        One of eight won by Stephen Sondheim
                      23. 46A
                        Batteries in many body mics
                      24. 48A
                        ___ace
                      25. 50A
                        Transfigure someone into a scarecrow (while ironically singing about how no good deed goes unpunished), say
                      26. 51A
                        Macbeth II and Always Dreaming, e.g.
                      27. 57A
                        "Isn't it nice to know that good will conquer ___?"
                      28. 58A
                        Revise, as your collaborator's clues
                      29. 59A
                        Joins (up)
                      30. 63A
                        Go on pretending that you were best friends with Connor, forging email conversations and all, if you're Evan Hansen
                      31. 65A
                        Muppet that yodeled with Julie Andrews in "The Lonely Goatherd"
                      32. 66A
                        Sampled "a little priest" at Mrs. Lovett's shop
                      33. 67A
                        Black Caucus, e.g.
                      34. 68A
                        Lizard with a prehensile tongue
                      35. 69A
                        "Mrs. Lovett, what a charming notion, eminently practical and ___ appropriate as always"
                      36. 70A
                        Name in "She Loves Me"
                      37. 71A
                        Scottish ballad partially set on Halloween
                      Down
                      1. 1D
                        Singer Irene or Alessia
                      2. 2D
                        River mentioned in "Kiss Me Kate"
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                        Lob tomatoes at, maybe
                      4. 4D
                        Stunt casting choice, for short
                      5. 5D
                        Burdens
                      6. 6D
                        Bucket-carrying character in "Fantasia"
                      7. 7D
                        Largest branch of Islam
                      8. 8D
                        Complex headline: "TDE on Kendrick Lamar Eating ___ In a Palm Tree: 'What's the Most LA-est Sh*t We Can Do?'"
                      9. 9D
                        Lighting effect that should have a warning
                      10. 10D
                        Kid playing Gavroche, usually
                      11. 11D
                        Female lead in Lin-Manuel Miranda's "21 Chump Street"
                      12. 12D
                        Be in harmony
                      13. 13D
                        Toby in "Sweeney Todd" and Jack in "Into the Woods," for two
                      14. 19D
                        Life, according to Liza
                      15. 21D
                        Eel on sushi menus
                      16. 24D
                        Washington Square Park monument (setting of an annual Christmas carol festival)
                      17. 25D
                        "Goddammit!"
                      18. 26D
                        Like a famous scene (and several songs) in 27-Down
                      19. 27D
                        Musical containing an extended drug trip sequence
                      20. 28D
                        "The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure," for one
                      21. 32D
                        Turn off
                      22. 34D
                        "Petra, such elegant writing, so chic you hardly can read it. What do you think? Who can it be? Even the ___. No, here, let me."
                      23. 36D
                        "Pick me!"
                      24. 37D
                        Wind down
                      25. 38D
                        River mentioned in "Hadestown"
                      26. 40D
                        "___ With Me" (Rapunzel's mother's song of warning in "Into the Woods")
                      27. 41D
                        "Big, tall, terrible" creature found in the sky in "Into the Woods"
                      28. 42D
                        Reset, as a scale
                      29. 47D
                        What music often does before an emotional song
                      30. 49D
                        "Newsies" director Kenny
                      31. 51D
                        "Into the woods without ___, but careful not to lose the way"
                      32. 52D
                        Watch party announcement
                      33. 53D
                        Awe
                      34. 54D
                        "Losing my mind," for one
                      35. 55D
                        Dorothy, to Em and Henry
                      36. 56D
                        Purchase at a 15-Across
                      37. 60D
                        Lawyer Clooney who with husband George donated $13M to save the Mill at Sonning Theater
                      38. 61D
                        7xwords puzzle, e.g.
                      39. 62D
                        One who might arrive early at the stagedoor to meet their favorite actor
                      40. 64D
                        "Guys and Dolls" book writer Burrows
                      41. 65D
                        Set of drums
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