PCC#0 "It's All Fun and Games Until You Have to Pay Rent"

Mazda's "Zoom-Zoom-Zoom" commercial, for one

Across

1A
Mazda's "Zoom-Zoom-Zoom" commercial, for one
4A
Municipal law enforcement
9A
Texter's "Let's get in touch"
10A
Gave a glowing review
11A
The lesser of two evils, for example
13A
"___, Adrian, I did it!" (Rocky quote)
14A
"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" uncle and "Modern Family" dad
15A
Shape of the novelty lamp awarded to Mr. Parker in "A Christmas Story" for winning a crossword puzzle contest
16A
Suffragette Bowerman
18A
Keeps in the loop, in a way
20A
His claim to fame was a chocolate factory
23A
___ dente (pasta-cooking specification)
24A
Turned the ___ (started to improve after a difficult period)
25A
Potato or yam
27A
Sum of the infinite series 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... that can debunk Zeno's pardoxes of motion
28A
Convict
29A
Scrubbed, as a mission

Down

1D
Sonic roller-skating employee
2D
Prefix meaning "of both kinds" (combined with -ibian for an animal that lives both on land and in water)
3D
Assigned tasks
4D
Black-and-white treat that oftentimes contains an Oreo
5D
"Between the Lines" singer Janis
6D
Couch potato's center of attention: Abbr.
7D
Style of 1960's French pop music with a repetitive name
8D
Member of a K-9 unit
12D
Sick
15D
"Imagine" singer John
17D
Suffix with "super"
18D
Where Petey the evil feline escapes from in the "Dog Man" series (by Dav Pilkey of "Captain Underpants" fame)
19D
Kind of sandwich
21D
Gambling game similar to bingo
22D
"All systems ___" ("ready to rock and roll")
24D
Battle of ___ (first Allied victory of WWI)
26D
Prefix for "cycle"

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Philip Chow constructor · 12 months ago

Thank you for solving! Many thanks to Larry (lbray53 at the XWord Muggles Forum) for the "turn the corner" inspiration... please stay tuned for more puzzles at PHILS CROSSWORD CORNER

Philip Chow constructor · 12 months ago
Answer explanation: the rebuses in the four corners in the grid are a pictorial representation of the four corners of a Monopoly board... GO for "pass go," JAIL for "in jail / just visiting," CAR for "free parking," and POLICE for "go to jail"... in Monopoly, you get $200 for passing go (turning the southeast corner), so the meta answer is SE $200

kurtalert 🤓3:42 · 12 months ago

Hah, nice one. Saw an interesting video not too long ago about optimizing Monopoly strategy using AI. Crazy stuff.

KayW 🤓4:26 · 12 months ago

That was fun - thanks! (and loved the clue for 4 down)

whimsy 9:18 · 12 months ago

Delightful! Thanks!

Berto 7:54 · 12 months ago

First time I’ve used rebus on Crosshare! Usually solve on Puzazz so I can shade and circle lol. Fun one! Best get some sleep now, else tomorrow there might be some bank errors not in my favour…

Philip Chow constructor · 12 months ago
hahaha thanks for making it over here... my favorite card was "you have won second prize at a beauty contest collect $10" - i thought that was the shadiest card ever... only second place?! how dare they

Sendhil Revuluri 🤓1:47 · 12 months ago

Fun, thank you! SW was a bit tricky, had never heard of the (Battle of) CER.

An Ephemeral Collation 🤓3:55 · 12 months ago

This ruled so hard. Thank you so much for making it!

rjy 🤓8:06 · 11 months ago

Ahh - had to peek at the hint, which gave it away. I could not get past thinking of rotating the squares in the corners… but cute, fun concept nonetheless!

Qmark 2s · 11 months ago

Had some issues with formatting my answer...when in doubt, read the instructions...all of them... :) Thanks Phil!

Carolyn 2s · 11 months ago

Very cute!

PCC#0 "It's All Fun and Games Until You Have to Pay Rent"

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