Dairy breed of cattle originating from the Caribbean
30A
Prefix meaning "different"
31A
Oscar role for Julia
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Paving material named after a Scottish engineer
35A
Desires water
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Monet medium
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Relay race needs
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Financial institution that caters to high-net-worth individuals
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Hat with a brim
47A
One of four for Ed Sheeran (music accolade issued by a UK magazine from 1990 to 2019)
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Reaches across
50A
Of the eye
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Spanish she-bear
55A
Genetic molecules
56A
French sister
57A
Things left out
59A
"I wish I could ___ that" (disturbed viewer's comment)
60A
Mission for Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice Anakin Skywalker
61A
Hydrogen's atomic number
62A
Apt acronym for Special Solvable Rehearsal Installment (which is not a hint for this meta but a preview of next week's meta, just to mess with your heads!)
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1D
Guy Ritchie movie involving diamonds
2D
9 down, and others
3D
Inner circle of a plot
4D
Sr.'s partner
5D
"___ girl!"
6D
Australian corner store
7D
Unreturnable serve
8D
"___ by any other name..."
9D
Computer company VIP
10D
Nasal membranes
11D
They have pupils
12D
Sailors' tattoos, probably
13D
Qualifying suffix
14D
Whiskey grain
19D
Bronx-born member of Congress, familiarly
21D
Spun records at a party
23D
Ray of "Field of Dreams"
26D
One-time connection
27D
One on the inside
28D
Open mining area
29D
Printer's measures smaller than ems
30D
Is worth something
32D
Unruly head of hair
33D
What we breathe
34D
In-groups
36D
Darlin'
37D
Printer cartridge fillers
40D
Belly, more formally
42D
Cognizant
43D
Paving material not named after a Scottish engineer
44D
One who paddles
45D
Trickster spider-god of West African mythology
46D
Lengthy attention-getting sound
49D
Toyota hybrid
50D
Columbus campus (abbr.)
51D
Pro's opposite
53D
Teammates in a game
54D
"___ live and breathe!"
57D
Spanish eye
58D
Chessboard array (abbr.)
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whimsy 🤓10:29 · 29 days ago
Once I understood, just had a teensy bit of trouble with the first themer; I positioned the T with the IC. But the joke was on me. (Ooh, there's a mechanism! ) Nice one; thanks, Ben!
Thanks, Ben! I'd have gotten it a lot quicker if I'd been looking at the right themer! Doh
MatthewL 🤓8:43 · 28 days ago
Took a few tries, but finally saw it. Went down a deep rabbit hole with CLIQUES and JEDIQUEST due to the IQUES string, but finally saw the larger picture. Thanks for the puzzle, Ben!
Berto 1s · 28 days ago
Found the same hole! Ben’s 4th nudge saved the day…
boharr 3s · 28 days ago
I did what whimsy did at first. Still not sure about an alternate path.
Just got back to this.... I found the 4 insider references but paused for a minute with 21D (D)JED + 34D (CL)IQUES fitting into 66A JEDIQUES(T)... Well, that wasn't gonna go anywhere! :P Thanks, Ben!
Well I found the different "jokes" and I saw the "ins" butI was stubbornly trying to concentrate on "OMISSIONS", so JEST left over DIQUE and CLIQUES contains LIQUE, seemed like a natural for that odd string but it did not work elsewhere (almost worked with TARC and TAR but TAR did not have an IN). Then I looked for donkey or ass or zebra (EQUID) and wagon, chariot, etc. (CART) but again nothing. I saw that the IN words crossed the themers and just dismissed it, that is not the constructors fault it is mine.
In the end I found it quite a LATTICEWORK (Ben or any Brit cognizant may get this before others)