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Pumping Iron

◆ · By Wayne Mesard · Published 2022-02-16T21:23:29.040Z

It was pointed out to me that Erin Rhode had a similar (and excellent!) puzzle in AVCX last year, which I had completely forgotten about. Ah well. Link to Fiend review.
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  • Mike D 🤓7:32 · 2022-05-19T13:07:55.093Z
    Excellent puzzle with a fun theme!
    Play today's daily mini crossword
    1A
    *Threw up
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    Across
    1. 1A
      *Threw up
    2. 5A
      *Of the thigh
    3. 10A
      *"Get ___!" ("Stop obsessing about trivial things")
    4. 13A
      Bit of sarcasm
    5. 15A
      Piano student's exercise
    6. 16A
      One of 100 members of Cong.
    7. 17A
      En pointe, in ballet
    8. 18A
      Cookies with a circumference of 5.5 inches
    9. 19A
      "Schitt's Creek" creator/actor Levy
    10. 20A
      *Communion bread
    11. 22A
      The point of fine dining?
    12. 23A
      End of a quaint business sign
    13. 25A
      Any of 11 states in 1861
    14. 27A
      16-Across, e.g.
    15. 28A
      Orgs.
    16. 31A
      *Young female cows
    17. 32A
      Imitated
    18. 34A
      Observes
    19. 37A
      Anemic ... or a description of the answers to the starred clues
    20. 41A
      Bake sale container
    21. 42A
      Amtrak track
    22. 44A
      *Basketball basket height
    23. 47A
      Phrase on a thrift store tag
    24. 49A
      Doc who does lab work?
    25. 50A
      Having a cigarette out back, say
    26. 53A
      Famed Manhattan deli
    27. 55A
      Nutritional figs.
    28. 56A
      *Excessive enthusiasm for late-70's R&B
    29. 59A
      Ante-
    30. 60A
      Chat, casually
    31. 61A
      Exchange wedding bands without a wedding band
    32. 64A
      "Days of ___ Lives" (soap opera with 14,000 episodes and counting)
    33. 65A
      Biology rank between class and family
    34. 66A
      Investigative journalist Farrow
    35. 67A
      *Flora with fronds
    36. 68A
      *Makes hard of hearing
    37. 69A
      *Least
    Down
    1. 1D
      Gp. that plays at Tanglewood in the summer
    2. 2D
      Cape ___, Massachusetts (not that one!)
    3. 3D
      One who takes discussions in an annoying, boring or pointless direction
    4. 4D
      Wilt (like that house plant you overwatered, or maybe forgot to water; but one or the other and it's definitely your fault)
    5. 5D
      Cat call
    6. 6D
      Other, in Acapulco
    7. 7D
      They have regrets
    8. 8D
      Get ___ of one's own medicine
    9. 9D
      "___ Miserables"
    10. 10D
      "Me too", formally
    11. 11D
      Skinnier
    12. 12D
      Pejorative for Earth, Mars and Luna in "The Expanse"
    13. 14D
      Iodine-rich seaweeds
    14. 21D
      Start of a quaint business sign
    15. 22D
      Barely balance
    16. 23D
      Resting place
    17. 24D
      Pueblo people
    18. 26D
      Spiced tea
    19. 29D
      Type of dorm
    20. 30D
      Vergara of "Modern Family"
    21. 33D
      Olympic athletes testing positive for trimetazidine
    22. 35D
      "Mwah!"
    23. 36D
      Unstable person, slangily
    24. 38D
      After dark, in adspeak
    25. 39D
      "Force 10 From ___" (1978 movie sequel, which is a better film than the 1961 original according to me and no one else)
    26. 40D
      Level
    27. 43D
      Capts.' subordinates
    28. 44D
      Lethargy
    29. 45D
      Evasive football maneuver
    30. 46D
      Cavs and Mavs, for two
    31. 48D
      Thrifty person
    32. 51D
      Crazy about
    33. 52D
      "Yeah, in a way"
    34. 54D
      Less than
    35. 57D
      "Frozen" reindeer
    36. 58D
      ___ anglais (English horns, which are confusingly known by this french name in England, even though the instruments themselves are not French, English or, for that matter, horns)
    37. 60D
      Cape ___, Massachusetts (yes, that one!)
    38. 62D
      Faux ___ (social misstep)
    39. 63D
      Tolkien tree creature
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