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themeless 16: colonnades

◆◆ · By Rafa Musa and Malaika Handa · Published by Malaika Handa · Published 2021-12-29T22:00:55.469Z

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  • Malaika Handa publisher · 2021-12-29T22:00:55.469Z
    ugh apparently it's not called "Queen of the Castle" it's called "Get Down"........ oh well still a banger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5xv7fyRFyI
    • Frisco17 8:35 · 2021-12-29T22:00:55.469Z
      Damn, I kept getting stuck on Lingua IGNOTA. Great puzz, guys! Some amazing fill in there, as well as some very clever ? clues.
      • Aloe320 21:35 · 2021-12-29T22:00:55.469Z
        so many aha moments for words i'm excited to know. thanks for the puz! also, MAELSTROM who among us hasn't furiously added that to our word list/seed entries while watching solo
        • Ariel Haymarket 12:10 · 2021-12-29T22:16:50.552Z
          What a great puzzle!
          • Mike D 13:23 · 2021-12-30T03:53:21.887Z
            Great puzzle - tons of clever clues
            • Ethan Cooper 🤓7:53 · 2021-12-30T15:57:36.221Z
              Great puzzle... what is a cluing spreadsheet tho? Is that a Crossdown thing?
              • Sommersmith 🤓10:46 · 2021-12-31T02:37:48.335Z
                Wow - fantastic puzzle!
                • Ajay 15:52 · 2021-12-31T21:14:34.494Z
                  Tough for me. Had to cheat. Thanks for posting!!
                  • Norah 🤓15:09 · 2022-01-01T22:26:15.610Z
                    NICE
                    • cshabsin 🤓12:16 · 2022-01-03T01:35:43.963Z
                      Is 36D's clue an appropriate clue for 45D as well? Or is has the new packaging for Oreos ("new"... changed like a decade ago?) erased the memory of cookies coming in sleeves? Part of a sleeve could still be "THIN MINT" these days, I suppose.
                      • William D 20:30 · 2022-01-04T06:25:07.802Z
                        Fun puzzle, thanks! Lots of new stuff to me.
                        • rickybillingsgate 🤓12:34 · 2022-01-13T22:40:32.724Z
                          kinda tough!
                          • prog plus chat 🤓20:11 · 2022-02-12T20:37:21.875Z
                            Very fun, love the comment clues
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                            Across
                            1. 1A
                              Neck lines?
                            2. 6A
                              Go back and forth
                            3. 10A
                              "___, from 'Cop Killer' to 'Law & Order'" (NPR headline)
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                              Attentive listener?
                            5. 16A
                              twitter.com/___solves
                            6. 17A
                              Advice a friend might give when you get a text from an ex
                            7. 18A
                              "if i ever stop making crosswords it will be so i never have to clue the word ___ again" (Rafa's comment on the cluing spreadsheet for this puzzle)
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                              Toots and the Maytals genre
                            9. 20A
                              Event that might include "team roping"
                            10. 21A
                              Stately home
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                              "would prefer if you clued this one bc i don't have a uterus" (Rafa's comment on the cluing spreadsheet for this puzzle)
                            12. 23A
                              New York basketball team that rhymes with a New York football team AND a New York baseball team
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                              "I wanna go hunting, any takers? / I'm not fake cuz I've got ___ and ___" ("Queen of the Castle" lyric)
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                              Lingua ___
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                              2020 reboot where Amanda Seyfried voiced Daphne
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                              [¯_(ツ)_/¯]
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                              "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" author found in GOVERNESS
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                              "Cha Cha Slide" instruction
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                              Wow
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                              Get old
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                              Was a precursor (to)
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                              An ending??
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                              Underwater sandbar
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                              "Santa ___ Diet" (Drew Barrymore sci-fi comedy)
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                              "Good" in French and Spanish
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                              Hanukkah treat sometimes served with harissa
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                              Delivery person?
                            28. 46A
                              Comedian Margaret featured in "Freedom To Marry"
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                              "I am Not My Hair" artist india.___
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                              Option for sightseeing while high?
                            31. 52A
                              2019 Tyler the Creator album
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                              Commotions
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                              ___ jackets (flavor of a JC Penny hard seltzer, in a "Please Don't Destroy" skit)
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                              Trudge
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                              Animal that congress seriously considered importing en masse from Africa to Louisiana in the 1910s to solve a national meat crisis
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                              "Harlem Shake" videos and fidget spinners
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                              "everything alright?", in a text
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                              Mode of "NO CAPES!" fame
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                              One way to cry uncle?
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                              "ugh, YES"
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                              Garden structures
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                              Middle back row attack, in volleyball
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                              Graphite, for carbon
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                              __lo (tag on some sexy "Star Wars" fanfic)
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                              "Ugh, seriously??"
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                              Lengua alternative
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                              T.S. ___ (poet who wrote of Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer)
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                              Patreon levels
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                              Sends a follow-up email, say
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                              Valid reason for taking a day off work
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                              Supporting group?
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                              Possesses
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                              Taiwanese electronics brand
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                              Crowning moment
                            20. 27D
                              Cello feature that's actually s-shaped
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                              PNG alternative
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                              immediately adds to cart
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                              Color en la bandera puertorriqueña
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                              👍
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                              Part of a sleeve
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                              Name that anagrams to LASSI
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                              "I don't ___ this negative energy!"
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                              Size that confusingly corresponds to venti, not grande
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                              Make a gingerbread house
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                              Snack found in choreographies?
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                              NYC rideshare app owned by drivers
                            32. 47D
                              Camel back?
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                              "...ish"
                            34. 50D
                              Ground-shaking tech?
                            35. 51D
                              Ortho ___-Cyclen Lo
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