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Themeless 85

◆◆ · By JeffsPuzzles · Published 2024-09-01T11:28:11.109Z

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  • Miriam Sicherman 🤓3:54 · 2024-09-01T13:42:11.143Z
    I enjoyed it like all of your puzzles! One possible correction--for 60 across, I think you mean to refer to 6 across (not 2 across).
    • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-09-01T23:05:47.886Z
      Thanks, Miriam. You're absolutely right. I seem to have a penchant for messing up cross-references!
    • SporcleMirror 🤓5:28 · 2024-09-01T19:38:43.227Z
      My first guess from the first A in 14A was MANTA…
      • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-09-02T00:34:53.982Z
        Could be a sequel! Thanks for solving.
      • kurtalert 🤓7:51 · 2024-09-01T22:51:18.715Z
        Good challenge, thanks Jeff!
        • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-09-02T00:34:49.917Z
          Thanks!
        • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓5:48 · 2024-09-02T01:39:56.217Z
          Fun, thank you! Loved the spanners and many of the fresh clues. (Agree with Miriam on 60A, and also noticed a tiny typo in the clue to 57D: Lofgren.)
          • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-09-02T12:10:47.575Z
            Thanks, Sendhil! I've now fixed Mr. Lofgren's name.
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Expect
          2. 6A
            Reddit features
          3. 10A
            Perform Wheel Pose
          4. 14A
            "The Effect of ___ Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds" (Paul Zindel Pulitzer Prize-winning play)
          5. 15A
            "Queen ___ Approximately" (Bob Dylan)
          6. 16A
            S&L takeback
          7. 17A
            Like Holmes's game
          8. 18A
            Name for 1/3 of Henry VIII's wives
          9. 19A
            Un plus un est ___ a deux
          10. 20A
            Non-religious philosophy emphasizing reason, ethics, inquiry, and the inherent dignity of all people.
          11. 23A
            Interim, more formally
          12. 24A
            Make them to make a right
          13. 25A
            Rule that ended in 1947
          14. 27A
            Capisce?
          15. 30A
            Thailand, once
          16. 34A
            Unnatural habitat?
          17. 36A
            "Norman Fucking Rockwell" singer
          18. 37A
            Communitarian child-raising philosophy
          19. 40A
            Pinches or boosts
          20. 41A
            Word whose meaning becomes its opposite when preceded by "quite a"
          21. 42A
            Ongoing Tour of note(s)
          22. 43A
            Sweetener without a spoiler alert
          23. 44A
            Wordy gift
          24. 46A
            Weathers
          25. 50A
            Dire wolf recovery site
          26. 55A
            John Donne's phrase of interconnectivity
          27. 58A
            Help make an illegal wager, e.g.
          28. 59A
            Spumante source
          29. 60A
            Equivalent of a 6 Across
          30. 61A
            Good name for a singer (like Braxton, Basil, or Tennille)
          31. 62A
            Gaiman or Young
          32. 63A
            Let flow (or oust beavers, I suppose)
          33. 64A
            Match parts
          34. 65A
            All of Strait's live in Texas
          35. 66A
            Fixes a word salad, maybe
          Down
          1. 1D
            Astounded
          2. 2D
            Nilla thing
          3. 3D
            Standard Oil successor
          4. 4D
            "Too rich for me"
          5. 5D
            Century-old British magazine featuring an annual "Little Black Book" of "the most eligible, the most beddable, the most exotically plumaged birds and blokes in town"
          6. 6D
            Cracked
          7. 7D
            "____ da Carnaval" (Luis Bonfa standard also known as "Theme from Black Orpheus" and "A Day in the Life of a Fool")
          8. 8D
            MMXXIV, e.g.
          9. 9D
            First words sung by Tommy in the Who's "Tommy"
          10. 10D
            "Frozen" kingdom
          11. 11D
            College official
          12. 12D
            Controllers, usually
          13. 13D
            Baggins portrayer
          14. 21D
            Stuns
          15. 22D
            Seraph, e.g.
          16. 26D
            "___ Boys" (Louisa May Alcott)
          17. 28D
            Ginormous
          18. 29D
            Sight seeing necessities?
          19. 30D
            "Alas," e.g.
          20. 31D
            Langston Hughes poem ("___ sing America")
          21. 32D
            Ian McEwan novel made into a film starring Saorise Ronan and Keira Knightley
          22. 33D
            Cars that anagram to SAME STAIR
          23. 35D
            Lout
          24. 36D
            Hindu holiday of light
          25. 38D
            Single out
          26. 39D
            Chillax
          27. 45D
            The only surviving pre-Indo-European language in Europe
          28. 47D
            Rehm or Lane
          29. 48D
            English county extending from greater London to the North Sea
          30. 49D
            Composer Erik ___ ("Gymnopédies")
          31. 51D
            Anodyne
          32. 52D
            Canadian magician/skeptic James ___, known for debunking paranormal claims (I can't clue him by his stage name because of 21 Down)
          33. 53D
            Words introducing an over time?
          34. 54D
            Of the first twelve U.S. Presidents, surname of the only two who did not own slaves
          35. 55D
            DC team that may be in playoff contention next year, says this hopeful fan
          36. 56D
            It can tune an orchestra but it can't tuna fish
          37. 57D
            Lofgren of Crazy Horse, the E Street Band, and Grin
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