Puzzle #69 "Your Infernal Majesty" [PCC#3]
■ · By Philip Chow · Published 2023-08-12T19:14:23.131Z
Meta Prompt
[Level 1.5] Meta prompt: The answer to the meta is a chart-topping Shania Twain country song that would make a good fifth theme entry
Hint 1: The four theme answers are the four longest answers
Hint 2: They all have something in common that relates to 71A
Hint 3: Google "Shania Twain songs" and look for a song that shares this common property... the song is from 1997
Bonus Hint: In @MikeyG's "Pun of a Kind" Puzzle #66 titled "Head Out on the Road" (also published today), his entry "SORRY I"M OUT" would make a lovely sixth theme entry which was clued "Yeah, yours truly is no longer attending your calculus party, Mikey..." 
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- 1ASound from a cow
- 4AKind of bagel
- 10A"Girls just want to have ___" (Cyndi Lauper song)
- 13A"Drinks are ___!" ("My treat!")
- 15AStory's high point
- 16ACountry with the highest daily traffic to Pornhub
- 17AStrong influence
- 19A___ garden (peaceful place to meditate)
- 20ABrightest star in the sky known as the "Dog Star"
- 21AKnight's title
- 22A"Nicotine" poet Pound
- 23ACounterpart of lad, in Scottish speak
- 25ASugar ___
- 27AThose that were only allowed to eat slop, take cold showers, and sleep in uncomfortable beds in the Big Brother house
- 31ARequest that could elicit a, "not until you finish your vegetables"
- 34AFollow orders
- 35ALike many violent films
- 37A__ Def (rapper with the 2009 album "The Ecstatic")
- 38AAchy spots
- 40A"Yuck!"
- 41AChange with the times
- 43ATake a crack at
- 44AExpression akin to "yikes!" that Morty says a lot on "Rick and Morty"
- 47AShrek, for one
- 48ASuppress, as a yawn
- 50A"Ta-ta" (British old-timey slang for farewell)
- 52AKing with a golden touch
- 54A___-Aid (Drink whose mascot bursts through walls shouting "Oh yeahhhh!")
- 55ALike a yellow banana
- 57AVietnamese diplomat Lê Đức ___
- 59AMoney, slangily
- 63ACollege URL ending
- 64AKind of car that Gwen Stefani rode in with her Harajuku girls in the music video for "Hollaback Girl"
- 66A"I can neither confirm ___ deny..."
- 67A"From ___ out" ("From this point forward")
- 68ALasting impression
- 69AGrand ___ Opry
- 70AWhere a bug may be snug
- 71A*My friend who I wrote this puzzle for, whose birthday is today! (Happy Birthday!)
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- 1DHardness scale on which diamond is a 10
- 2D"Dedicated to the ___ Love" (R.E.M. song)
- 3DPoet Khayyám who wrote "A jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou"
- 4DClip, as a coupon
- 5D"A Nightmare on ___ Street"
- 6DDrinks slowly
- 7D"A Man Needs ___" (Neil Young song)
- 8DWeaving technique used in friendship bracelets
- 9D"If you know your party's ___ you can dial it at any time": Abbr.
- 10DPhoto of the Loch Ness Monster, for example
- 11DPC operator
- 12DGrandmother, affectionately
- 14DWhat the Nazar amulet (
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- 22DDreyer's partner in Slow Churned ice cream
- 24DGymnast Kerri who had that vault where her ankle was messed up but she won gold anyway at the 1996 olympics
- 26DNihilistic art movement
- 27DHas people over, for a party
- 28DCancel, as a rocket launch
- 29DExtremely deviant
- 30DBob who played Danny Tanner on "Full House"
- 32DCamera setup often worn on the head whose slogan is "Be a HERO"
- 33DPrefix meaning "bone"
- 36DGive ___ (approve)
- 39DWhat Faust did with his soul (to the devil)
- 42DSmall amounts, as of whipped cream
- 45DOne who has no religious faith (like all my friends from the "Suicide Squad" song)
- 46DAlternative to Skyping
- 49D"Fee, ___, foe, fum"
- 51DDeath, destruction, or some other terrible fate
- 53DHe-Man's twin sister
- 55DCity near Lake Tahoe
- 56DMuch-admired person
- 58D"Somewhere ___ the rainbow / way up high" (lyrics sung by Judy Garland)
- 60DLike some lingerie
- 61DJai ___ (fast-moving sport)
- 62D"No ___, no foul"
- 64D___-Town (the Windy City)
- 65DLast word of the "Happy Birthday" song