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get ready...rogo's first themeless

◆ · By rogo · Published 2023-12-25T20:32:33.166Z

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  • lila 🤓7:51 · 2023-12-25T20:57:45.528Z
    so good!! 1a and 24a literally LOL hilarious. loved ittttt
    • Rich I 🤓9:01 · 2023-12-25T21:12:42.057Z
      so good!
      • Fizzix 🤓6:34 · 2023-12-25T21:50:56.328Z
        wheeee
        • rhode 🤓7:33 · 2023-12-27T23:11:03.594Z
          Clarinetist coming at you... saxophones are lame. But this puzzle was great!
          • FeathersMcG 🤓8:46 · 2023-12-28T21:36:43.294Z
            Awesome puzzle, congrats!!!!
            • snag 🤓15:31 · 2023-12-29T18:30:10.298Z
              this was a great puzzle. I had fun solving it. oh yeah.
              • merlinnimue 🤓10:33 · 2023-12-31T04:36:05.114Z
                congratulations on your first, sorry for being so slow... and getting you kids and your edgy clues... and basically everything else
                • JoshSolves 🤓25:24 · 2024-01-04T02:47:45.418Z
                  We loved it, delightful debut!
                  • Rat Queen 🤓11:20 · 2024-01-05T01:26:21.513Z
                    Freakin delightful
                    Play today's daily mini crossword
                    1A
                    When you want a new and annoying angle on "is a hot dog a sandwich," you can start asking whether a bowl of popcorn with candy tossed in is one of these
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                    Across
                    1. 1A
                      When you want a new and annoying angle on "is a hot dog a sandwich," you can start asking whether a bowl of popcorn with candy tossed in is one of these
                    2. 6A
                      Spill the beans
                    3. 10A
                      Vinyl records
                    4. 13A
                      A Mogadishu resident, maybe
                    5. 14A
                      A long way to shorten a list
                    6. 16A
                      What no one did with this puzzle, otherwise they might have caught that I misread/misclued 2D before I hit publish (thank you to my friend fizzix who found that one while solving)
                    7. 17A
                      Got
                    8. 18A
                      How you might start a question that a pedant would answer with "no you MAY not"
                    9. 19A
                      Apt rhyme for "put on"
                    10. 21A
                      Light on fire
                    11. 22A
                      "Orange" "drink" that got officially renamed to this in 2003, though I'm pretty sure I haven't tasted it since ~1999
                    12. 24A
                      When you brainstorm but you use words like "synergy" and "circle back"
                    13. 25A
                      What we all had to pretend part of the restaurant was back when there was a whole section for people who wanted to have cigarettes indoors
                    14. 27A
                      A relatively inoffensive cigarette byproduct, as long as it goes in a tray
                    15. 29A
                      Identity repped by a green/white/gray/black flag at the pride parade
                    16. 30A
                      Did the last leg of a normal 41A, I guess
                    17. 31A
                      Palindrome guy
                    18. 32A
                      A fleeting bit of enthusiasm; or, what you might have if you're behind during a game of 5D
                    19. 37A
                      Land animals you get to learn a lot about when you do lots of crosswords
                    20. 38A
                      A possible reason why you lie awake at night convinced everyone hates you, but for short
                    21. 39A
                      Use eyes
                    22. 40A
                      I've heard you can't fit a square one of these in a round hole, but I can think of a bunch of situations where you definitely could
                    23. 41A
                      A race with three different legs, like car, plane, and hovercraft. Oh, wait, we weren't talking about 5D?
                    24. 44A
                      Lane, Fielder, or the guy who made the Kosher beef hot dogs (presumably)
                    25. 46A
                      Middle name? First last name?? of that guy who wrote American Psycho
                    26. 48A
                      A space fantasy unit of distance that really feels like it should be a unit of time
                    27. 49A
                      Tree ooze
                    28. 50A
                      "____! Growl!" a.k.a. the official cheer for the Aguefort Adventuring Academy Owlbears
                    29. 52A
                      What your work performance review might say you are if you're a woman and decide to state your opinions, but you're not self-effacing enough
                    30. 54A
                      Chinese gambling game played with a set of 36 dominos (TIL)
                    31. 56A
                      The woodwind that's like a single-reed oboe or a snobby saxophone (come at me, ____ists)
                    32. 57A
                      Spanish for "the boy" because that's the gender that means it rains a lot, I guess
                    33. 58A
                      A minor, e.g.
                    34. 59A
                      The ones above Cpls
                    35. 60A
                      Snoots when they're not being booped
                    Down
                    1. 1D
                      Pops on the coast
                    2. 2D
                      According to Jung, it's the "unconscious masculine side of a woman," but this is also the feeling I have towards really old and outdated psychology (editing note: see 16A) (New clue: the grade this puzzle would get for accuracy at crossword school, assuming this is the only mistake, which might be a bad assumption!)
                    3. 3D
                      Gloria, credo, sanctus, agnus dei, but also kyrie even though it's in Greek?? Sorry; I've been in choirs but I've never been to one of these so accuracy is not guaranteed
                    4. 4D
                      The A of IPA
                    5. 5D
                      The 90s Nintendo driving game I grew up with, which was unfortunate because everyone in college played MarioKart and the handling is real different
                    6. 6D
                      It's the capital of Switzerland...but also not really, except actually it is
                    7. 7D
                      Those letters alongside the 4G on the phone signal indicator
                    8. 8D
                      Whoopsie! Or, what you might say to yourself if you drive into an exploding mine while playing 5D
                    9. 9D
                      One of those guys who's trying to understand the New York Times' effect on man
                    10. 10D
                      What you do when you get trapped in a bubble while playing 5D
                    11. 11D
                      PSAT, PACT, PLSAT, PGRE and so on
                    12. 12D
                      Artist behind "No Ordinary Love" whose name I sincerely did not know how to pronounce for embarrassingly long because I AM JUST THAT COOL
                    13. 13D
                      A smol unit of time, shortened
                    14. 15D
                      Nickname counterpart for Chris
                    15. 20D
                      Tribute poem
                    16. 23D
                      In retrospect, I flatten clothes to wrap sushi...er, sushi wrap...idk, I tried writing a cryptic thing
                    17. 24D
                      Country south of the Caspian Sea
                    18. 26D
                      One of two in a double self-portrait by the artist herself
                    19. 28D
                      When tripled, how the Merrymen are feeling in an 80s calypso bop
                    20. 31D
                      You know, that crossword cookie, but if you need to stack more of them in the same amount of height, for some reason
                    21. 32D
                      Oomph
                    22. 33D
                      Open to suggestions, i.e. if you want to tell me (nicely) how to make crosswords
                    23. 34D
                      Band with the song "Every Morning," whose main characters would probably be happier as friends with benefits
                    24. 35D
                      Get
                    25. 36D
                      Sea animals you get to learn a lot about when you do lots of crosswords
                    26. 41D
                      What you defend at the end of your advanced degree, snake fight and all
                    27. 42D
                      Camellia sinensis leaves, or gossip
                    28. 43D
                      What you get during an encounter with a teenage 80s movie villain, if there aren't any lockers nearby
                    29. 45D
                      Guy in charge in pre-USSR Russia, but not the version that actually looks like caesar (fun etymology fact!)
                    30. 47D
                      At least II XIIs on a clock (you guys like roman numerals, right?)
                    31. 48D
                      What I'm trying to do in a hurry during my most common recurring nightmare where I keep finding more and more things I forgot I need to bring, but they don't fit in my suitcase
                    32. 49D
                      What goes between bumps and spikes if you're actually good at volleyball
                    33. 51D
                      Deux, aux Etats-Unis
                    34. 53D
                      My cats' least favorite person to visit
                    35. 55D
                      "Yeah?" but while picking up the phone and in Rio
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