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CursedWords #13 - Creature Feature

◆◆ · By apeminkie · Published 2024-10-31T18:17:28.765Z

🎃 A new CursedWords puzzle will be released every Monday, Thursday and Saturday during October 2024. To play the ones you missed, click the yellow [cursedwords] tag or visit this link: https://crosshare.org/tags/cursedwords
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  • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓5:09 · 2024-11-01T02:30:57.434Z
    Interesting! 6D was tricky but good. The only clue I had an issue with was 59A, specifically the "Old" part; Grover was my favorite and I've always thought of him as young; apparently he is written to be like a 4-year-old.
    • apeminkie constructor · 2024-11-01T15:43:34.988Z
      Many of Grover's books (the fave in our household growing up was "The Monster at the End of This Book") described him with those 3 adjectives. I think in modern media, the "old" has become a thing of the past.
      • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓5:09 · 2024-11-01T20:04:33.899Z
        I stand corrected! I loved that book — unfortunately more than my kids did, so it never got its fair place in the bedtime rotation…
    • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓5:09 · 2024-11-01T13:47:15.585Z
      Is there a difference between this puzzle and this other one with the same title and what looks like the same grid? Thanks!
      • apeminkie constructor · 2024-11-02T01:14:36.961Z
        Forgot I had it set to auto-publish when I started construction! I have deleted the duplicate. 🤦
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      Game where a key is key?
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      Across
      1. 8A
        * (Shapeshifting + Terrakinetic + Particulate) x (Leonine + Homonid + Scorpionic)
      2. 15A
        Bloody knife locale, say
      3. 17A
        Paddle
      4. 18A
        TV competition with the Golden Buzzer, to fans
      5. 19A
        Mistake … mistakenly mispronounced by many (the correct way to say it sounds like a game show's "incorrect" buzzer)
      6. 20A
        2,000 pounds
      7. 21A
        Mnemonic acronym for classic Greek philosophers
      8. 22A
        Sheepskin boot brand
      9. 23A
        Letters added to title of "The Bachelor" spin-off
      10. 26A
        A tech rivalry to the Macs?
      11. 29A
        Newborn horse
      12. 31A
        Ultimatum
      13. 33A
        Lakers local rivals, on a score bug
      14. 34A
        Passing remarks?
      15. 37A
        Chinese chairman
      16. 38A
        * (Deceptive + Tempting + Horned) x (Oracular + Tricksy + Arachnid)
      17. 41A
        Michael Jackson studio album following "Thriller"
      18. 42A
        Reptile with a V-shaped snout (not to be confused with a gator, which has a U-shaped snout)
      19. 44A
        "Ooga chaka, ooga, ooga" (x4) in "Hooked on a Feeling", e.g.
      20. 45A
        Has a terrible feeling?
      21. 46A
        Descriptor of an RPG, especially one played by many simultaneously
      22. 47A
        The ending of Titanic?
      23. 49A
        What may also be found at a 15-Across
      24. 50A
        #1 song the week before Halloween 1962 … or the end result of each of the three starred clues?
      25. 53A
        "Bear" that poops in the Eucalypt woods (likely)
      26. 55A
        Silver fox, in slang
      27. 58A
        2018 film about a prehistoric shark, with "The"
      28. 59A
        * (Loveable + Furry + Old) x (Annoying + Harmful + Small)
      29. 65A
        Deep black
      30. 67A
        Opposite of 'neath (that sounds like 17-Across)
      31. 68A
        🍆, in England
      32. 69A
        Corn maze sight
      33. 70A
        Bullring "bravo!"
      34. 71A
        Handy candy carrier, maybe
      35. 72A
        Arid
      Down
      1. 1D
        Game where a key is key?
      2. 2D
        Holiday ___
      3. 3D
        Dark clouds over a city, perhaps
      4. 4D
        Destructive Minecraft block
      5. 5D
        Dock
      6. 6D
        Leads bidding and goes, but isn't fully in play or completes a hand?
      7. 7D
        Blood-coloring protein
      8. 9D
        Add fizz to
      9. 10D
        DOJ org. with many undercover operatives
      10. 11D
        Sternward
      11. 12D
        Not just "a"
      12. 13D
        "Bad Moon Rising" group, to fans
      13. 14D
        Goat sacrifice, in a way
      14. 15D
        "Help!"
      15. 16D
        HS class where one might read Frankenstein (1818)
      16. 24D
        Only island Australian state: Abbr.
      17. 25D
        "u know when u r coming?"
      18. 26D
        "___, Shmanet, Janet" ("Rocky Horror" song)
      19. 27D
        "Impossible!"
      20. 28D
        Many a haunted house role
      21. 29D
        Acronym for (and homophone of) a Wilmer Valderrama role
      22. 30D
        One of two foreign words for "yes" found in a trademarked name for a spirit board
      23. 31D
        SHO subsidiary where one might watch Frankenstein (1931)
      24. 32D
        Wound
      25. 35D
        Festive affair
      26. 36D
        NFL gains
      27. 39D
        Personal quirks
      28. 40D
        (The) yoozh
      29. 43D
        Deep sleep
      30. 45D
        Fidgety affliction inspiring punchline "…doctor said I have 80 of them"
      31. 47D
        Going nowhere fast
      32. 48D
        Staring, as stars
      33. 51D
        Olympian Korbut
      34. 52D
        Not crazy
      35. 53D
        Fall (over)
      36. 54D
        Fairy tale brute
      37. 56D
        Ran the music for the Halloween party, for short
      38. 57D
        Rat or Snake, in China
      39. 58D
        Cow sound
      40. 60D
        Negotiation abbr.
      41. 61D
        Doc for Spot
      42. 62D
        Before our time, it meant "before in time"
      43. 63D
        Color model used in older displays of 26-Across
      44. 64D
        AWOL
      45. 66D
        Make an effort
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