Ghost (Director's Cut) (PfP #78c)
■ · By Conflux · Published about 1 year ago
Constructor's Note
Testers found some of the clues I originally had for this puzzle too obscure/hard/specific to me. They're probably right, so I took them out, but I still like the clues! This is the puzzle with those clues left in, so solve at your own risk if you want the "director's cut" of the puzzle! The normal version is at http://tinyurl.com/pfp-78c-crossword-o.
There's a certain two-word phrase that I've been thinking a lot about from a wordplay perspective, and so eventually I had to make a puzzle with that as the seed. It's 11-Across
11AOxymoronic two-word phrase whose two words come from the same root[---------]
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Two more things about the long entries: (1) "West Coast" is also the title of an Imagine Dragons song. It has the lyric "I'll be your West Coast, honey," and, like, it would literally make more sense in my opinion if it was "I'll be your guest host, honey." (2) It's not at all true, but I really really want "ghost" to have originally been a hybrid of the words "guest" and "host." Or a shortening of "guest host."I make puzzles (of all different kinds, not just crosswords!) at https://puzzlesforprogress.net. If you liked this puzzle, you might like those!
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- I tried this one first and then decided to take the easy way out at the other link
- nice grid!
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Soak (up)
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Across
- 1ASoak (up)
- 4AWalk at a leisurely pace
- 9AMo. that loses two letters when abbreviated
- 10AAired, as an old TV show
- 11AOxymoronic two-word phrase whose two words come from the same root
- 13ASystem where 48 is 0
- 14AThey can be measured in lbs.
- 15ALike a crossword with obscure answers and boring clues
- 17APres. who collected stamps
- 19APhoenices' birthplaces
- 22AUS region that "double-rhymes" with 11-Across11AOxymoronic two-word phrase whose two words come from the same root[---------]
- 24A"Not doing this"
- 25A"How was __ know?"
- 26A"grapes; for the __ shall eat them" (result of Google Translating "__" into Latin and back twice, before they fixed it)
- 27A__-tile (shape that can be divided into smaller versions of itself)
Down
- 1DEpic
- 2DWork
- 3DForerunner
- 4DSol Ring and Black Lotus
- 5D[shrug]
- 6DResult of a "moderate amount of eumelanin," as MedlinePlus puts it
- 7DUltimate
- 8DMiddle-earth creatures common in crosswords
- 12DTrig fn. that loses one letter when abbreviated
- 16DGI-entertaining org.
- 17D"This might be irrelevant, but..." over text
- 18DOne of two songs on The Hamilton Mixtape
- 20DSpanish for "this" or "east"
- 21D"Alexa, __" —me, often
- 23DStomach, cutesily
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