These Puns Go to Eleven
◆ · By Mikey G · Published 2022-11-11T23:12:19.118Z
Meta Prompt
[Level 2] The 11-letter answer to the meta is a word that describes how I write my clues.
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Minor place?
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Across
- 1AMinor place?
- 5AFish make great band members because they know all the ___
- 11AIt'll come before "you forget"
- 12A"Well, aren't you a fancypants?"
- 13AWhen I want to see footage of people having a nice "trip," I tune into the ___
- 15A"Grey ___" (Elton John tune)
- 16AHe just wanted to leave, but then his wife got all salty
- 17ASee 35-Down
- 19AType of sauce
- 22AThe feuding optometrists could never ___
- 27AHHH
- 28AResolve
- 29ASinging syllables (I won't demonstrate)
- 30ACrosswordese golfer Aoki
- 31ASmart people?
- 33AGoals for candidates
- 37A"You said I couldn't produce this attaché all by myself, but I think I've made my ___"
- 39ABit of animation
- 40ALabor over
- 43ASecond word in the nation whose capital is Ouagadougou
- 44AI just wrote a set of classical compositions about working in a cubicle; it's the ___
- 46AOne-kind link (or Pun-Kind, as far as I'm concerned!)
- 47ALow digit
- 48ASecond word in a rhyming cocktail
- 51ASnowman in "Frozen" who says "Oh, look at that...I've been impaled" (what people solving my puzzles say as well)
- 54AMy friends are bickering about who gets access to the restricted area, but I'm going to ___
- 58AKeys
- 59ACryptic time! "Kansas town in violation (4)"
- 60ADances or dips
- 61A"11 Items or ___" (oddly specific advice I followed when creating this puzzle's grid)
Down
- 1DTV character whose original name was Gordon Shumway
- 2DRed and others
- 3DMan, for one (semi-dupe with 58-Across but you'll live)
- 4DThey're full of legends
- 5DFa-la link (again, I'm not singing)
- 6DAnthracite
- 7D"And, then..."
- 8DA band's final gig of the night, say
- 9DPeyton's brother
- 10DType of fly
- 14D"Great Compromiser" Henry who really "sculpted" a lot of legislation LOL
- 18D"___ of the D'Urbervilles" (1892 Thomas Hardy novel)
- 20DPopeye says, "Olive her!"
- 21D"___-haw!"
- 22DWard of "Gone Girl," and I want to read the book version soon (no spoilers!)
- 23DCryptic time! "List shortener that gets back late (4)"
- 24DAssuage
- 25DNeedle
- 26DChiwere speaker
- 30D"The Love Boat" bartender that greets visitors to the Muggles forum
- 32DMIV/IV
- 34DCruciverbalists' favorite 4-letter food that is not OREO (probably healthier too)
- 35D17-Across, for one
- 36DBlackthorn
- 38DThis is a real dele breaker (I'm hilarious)
- 40DExcessively
- 41D"Didn't you turn on the lights already?" "Yeah, something seems ___"
- 42DMaybe not even
- 43DHeat source
- 45DSanta can use the chimney - it'll ___ him just fine!
- 49DThey have it!
- 50DScintilla
- 52D"He makes no friend who never made ___" (Tennyson line)
- 53DSon, near the Seine
- 54D"___ boom bah" ("the sound made when a sheep explodes" in a classic Johnny Carson sketch)
- 55DScreening org.
- 56DPreamble to the Constitution?
- 57DThey're often grad students, briefly