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It's Written in the Stars

◆ · By SporcleMirror · Published 2022-12-18T16:40:10.080Z

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  • SporcleMirror constructor · 2022-12-18T17:50:13.271Z
    Explanation: replace each star with the word MAGIC
    Magic 8 BALL, Magic Johnson, HEART has the song Magic Man, and a magic square is a grid where all the rows and columns have the same sum.
    • kieranjboyd 🤓4:45 · 2022-12-18T20:07:42.717Z
      Fun! I didn't need to parse the punctuation until I struggled to get the right onomatopoeia for SMUSH, and then realised what "Squares" you were talking about. Nice cluing for SEL and TRE too
      • Tuffy 🤓7:56 · 2022-12-18T20:44:53.576Z
        Very fun one!
        • E Anders 9:35 · 2022-12-18T21:49:26.054Z
          Love 10D’s clue! Great one!
          • T. G. 🤓6:13 · 2022-12-20T02:05:14.969Z
            Great puzzle and awesome revealer!
            • Brian Callahan 🤓5:06 · 2022-12-20T02:16:43.639Z
              I like the 1D / 36A connection, haha. Good puzzle!
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              1A
              Spheres
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              36
              Across
              1. 1A
                Spheres
              2. 5A
                Add Impact to 15-Down, say
              3. 9A
                Bean bags, e. g.
              4. 11A
                Nature's lightning rods, essentially
              5. 12A
                "Are you even listening?"
              6. 13A
                *Man band
              7. 14A
                John Legend song has bamboozled old flame dropping dead initially (When cryptic clues make things EASIER...)
              8. 16A
                "Come again?"
              9. 17A
                Colorado native
              10. 18A
                Prepare to get shot?
              11. 19A
                Certain felt-tip... or what the star acts as, in each starred clue?
              12. 23A
                Z followers
              13. 24A
                Introspective genre
              14. 25A
                Escargot's bane
              15. 26A
                Infection prevention
              16. 30A
                *Johnson's sport, informally
              17. 32A
                Flatten, slangily
              18. 33A
                Capital since 2002
              19. 34A
                Pacific island country
              20. 35A
                Aside lead-in?
              21. 36A
                Discouraged by 1-Down, for short?
              Down
              1. 1D
                Org. providing office temperature recommendations
              2. 2D
                It helps take back a line?
              3. 3D
                *8 ____ (certain provider of advice)
              4. 4D
                Missouri city named after a French king
              5. 5D
                Number of colors on the Italian flag, to Italians
              6. 6D
                "...I guess"
              7. 7D
                Read in a leisurely way, or in detail (the English language is confusing and we all know that)
              8. 8D
                One of two Bible books named after women
              9. 10D
                Sound from "cymbals" but not "clarinets"
              10. 11D
                Word sometimes omitted from initialisms
              11. 15D
                Posts with trollfaces
              12. 18D
                One setting the stage
              13. 19D
                Interlocks
              14. 20D
                Went on a "dinner and a movie" date, say
              15. 21D
                In abundance
              16. 22D
                Make ____ (be a slob)
              17. 26D
                What Lampwick turns into, in a Disney movie
              18. 27D
                *Square calculations
              19. 28D
                "Time ____ the essence"
              20. 29D
                Notable playwright George Bernard ____
              21. 31D
                Word with "song" or "quiz"
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