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Themeless #16

◆ · By SporcleMirror · Published 2024-05-25T18:04:44.424Z

If you've been solving the NYT themelesses recently and you've found them disappointingly easy, hopefully this will give you the challenge you're looking for.
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  • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓6:38 · 2024-05-25T19:32:52.976Z
    Fun solve! Some very nice clues (31A was particularly great). (FYI in 35D, I think “truncated frustum” is redundant. "Conical frustum" is basically equivalent to "truncated cone" — with the truncating plane parallel to the base.)
    • SporcleMirror constructor · 2024-05-25T21:36:39.548Z
      Fixed, the actual page says both "truncated cone" and "conical frustum" back to back so I probably got the words mixed up when writing the clue.
    • Shae 🤓29:48 · 2024-05-26T02:39:50.772Z
      I really wanted “source of many winds” to be YOMAMA.
      • BMW 🤓10:06 · 2024-05-26T13:33:20.002Z
        Very nice !
        • An Ephemeral Collation 🤓7:06 · 2024-05-26T16:24:03.189Z
          Tricky and fun - thanks!
          • Wally 🤓12:02 · 2024-05-27T17:51:40.771Z
            Loved it!
            • AuLeaf 🤓8:41 · 2024-05-28T06:09:08.584Z
              14A for this 17A?
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              Like many helicopter parents
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              Across
              1. 1A
                Like many helicopter parents
              2. 6A
                Like Venus
              3. 10A
                Transformer, e. g., for short
              4. 14A
                Question asked after missing something
              5. 16A
                Be a head of everyone else?
              6. 17A
                Challenge for crossword veterans
              7. 19A
                Bulked (up) at the gym, say
              8. 20A
                Source of many winds
              9. 21A
                Word after odds or chances
              10. 22A
                ___ al-Adha (Islamic holiday)
              11. 25A
                Hornet, e. g., in slang
              12. 26A
                Provide (with)
              13. 29A
                Go right past
              14. 31A
                Labor overseer, briefly
              15. 34A
                Belt components
              16. 36A
                Teachers' org.
              17. 37A
                ____ Ted (underwater counterpart of the Bullet Bill in Mario games)
              18. 39A
                Key chain's place?
              19. 40A
                Small part in a picture
              20. 42A
                It's that "Damn" rapper's last name!
              21. 44A
                Power dept.
              22. 45A
                Onto
              23. 47A
                Plume hunting target in the early 1900s
              24. 49A
                Handbag handle, briefly
              25. 50A
                #32, informally
              26. 53A
                The "light" that gives the Enlightenment Period its name
              27. 55A
                It helps with rounding up
              28. 58A
                Date option that may involve booking seats twice
              29. 61A
                Tim of "WKRP" (...and don't you dare clue this as "Card again, informally")
              30. 62A
                Cooking, so to speak
              31. 63A
                Applications
              32. 64A
                "That's gotta hurt"
              33. 65A
                Plan of action, informally
              Down
              1. 1D
                Low-frequency register
              2. 2D
                Starting point of Phileas Fogg's train ride to New York in Around the World in 80 Days
              3. 3D
                Instrument that may be seen alongside a tabla
              4. 4D
                Floor
              5. 5D
                Days gone by
              6. 6D
                Menu words
              7. 7D
                Half of a line, in geometry
              8. 8D
                Beyond small
              9. 9D
                Un-stuck, in a way
              10. 10D
                Notably near-sighted toon
              11. 11D
                "Having fun in the bedroom", e. g.
              12. 12D
                Detailed picture of sorts
              13. 13D
                Address for most Inkubator crossword constructors
              14. 15D
                More unusual
              15. 18D
                Lucy's foe in "Kill Bill"
              16. 23D
                Like a turkey's strikes
              17. 24D
                TI-84 feature
              18. 27D
                Biblical preposition
              19. 28D
                Gets the wheels turning?
              20. 30D
                52D's husband, presumably, if the October Revolution hadn't happened
              21. 31D
                As soon as
              22. 32D
                Cheap restaurants
              23. 33D
                Series of cartridges with cheat codes
              24. 35D
                Candy that looks like a "conical frustum", per its Wikipedia entry
              25. 38D
                Certain religious composition
              26. 41D
                You may run them for someone else
              27. 43D
                Word for "insult" that etymologically means "slap on the forehead"
              28. 46D
                Fitzgerald and others
              29. 48D
                Legal conclusion?
              30. 51D
                Carrier of a gas-filled tank
              31. 52D
                Mrs. Gorbachev
              32. 54D
                Half of Mork's greeting
              33. 56D
                Nice buds
              34. 57D
                What a teacher has the key for
              35. 58D
                Joanne of "Red River"
              36. 59D
                Network with stylized feathers in its logo
              37. 60D
                "Thanks, Captain Obvious!"
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