It's Rhyme for Your Birthday
◆ · By Mikey G · Published 2024-02-17T18:00:19.353Z
Meta Prompt
[Level 2] The answer to the meta is a well-known individual who shares my birthday, 2/17.
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Jump for it!
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Across
- 1AJump for it!
- 4A"Too rich for me!"
- 9AGargantuan
- 12APen preceder
- 13A2014 film about a 1965 march
- 14AMishmash
- 16ACommon article
- 17A"Fishy" Los Angeles Angels player who will not have Ohtani as a teammate this year
- 18AInvestor's concern
- 20APause in the Psalms that anagrams to a type of rock
- 22AChicago paper, for short
- 24ANolan Ryan, once, briefly
- 25APops
- 27AProp seen on a Chiquita label (I go bananas for them - they have such a peel)
- 29AGuatemala galas
- 31AUtil. bill
- 32AYeah, that won't last
- 33APancakes powerhouse
- 35ALike many GIF images
- 39AProgram whose logo is two connected eighth notes
- 41A"Step on it!"
- 42ASome home run swings
- 45AExuberant feeling
- 47ABird with a reduplicative name
- 48AHow I cheer for my Cubbies
- 50A"I made dessert: you're in for ___!"
- 52ATake care of Ginger Cat, perhaps (don't forget her crunchies and her meat treats!)
- 54AArduous
- 55AOver 40,000 people once reported theirs as 078-05-1120: Abbr.
- 58AHardly neophytes
- 60AWhen some people start driving
- 62AOriginal network for the 1990s revival of "Supermarket Sweep" (when it airs, I market on my schedule)
- 66AA movie about a water park is a ___ show
- 67AIdle performer?
- 68A"I'm not listening!"
- 70A"Take ___!"
- 71ASoil
- 73AActress who Theron called the "unsung hero" of the film "Monster"
- 75AGet a lode of this!
- 76AOnline shopping website that starts with "E" and ends with "Y" (you have a 50:50 chance)
- 77AHauled
- 78AFake movie about Christmas beverages: "___ Day Afternoon"
- 79AUse a pogo stick (perhaps to go to 33-Across...non-meta-related semi-dupe, I know...)
- 80ASubway entrances will never go out of ___
- 81APart of the UK
Down
- 1DResponds to "Step on it!"
- 2DOthello : Desdemona :: Hamlet : ___
- 3DGave way
- 4D"You finished?"
- 5DA pop
- 6DOodles and oodles
- 7DWhen a blue creature arises, ___'s up!
- 8DPercival Everett's 2001 book "Erasure," for example
- 9DOh, fiddle stick!
- 10D"What you do mean you can't keep track of all the Sesame Street characters?" "Sorry, ___"
- 11DTailor's concern
- 15DOther, in Oaxaca
- 19D"___ dog!"
- 21DTimes most people (even Mikey G, sometimes) wake up: Abbr.
- 23DMarket optimist
- 26DBible book that anagrams to what you are
- 28DThe "I" in "I.M. Pei" (use 4 of 6 letters in HEROIC)
- 30DElena and Ketanji's colleague
- 34DAustralian state capital
- 36DCommon prefix that's also found in this clue
- 37DWest end?
- 38DIt'll give you shade
- 39D"Yes, that conjecture seems about right"
- 40DPopular Fender, casually
- 42DKnock
- 43DSight in the Seine
- 44DKitty
- 46D"___ looking at you, kid" (said to a goat)
- 49D2014 song by Florida-Georgia Line
- 51D2023 novel by Genevieve Wheeler (still on my TBR!)
- 53DTravail
- 55DWhere singles often hang out
- 56DApply liberally, as cream cheese to a bagel
- 57DWhen birds open a retirement account, they create a ___
- 59DIf an encyclopedia falls on your head, that ___
- 61DThe season opener?
- 62DMajors, for one
- 63D"Dies ___" (favorite hymn of cruciverbalists)
- 64D2010s Best Actor winner
- 65D"Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" poet
- 69DOpening on Broadway
- 72DLongest side of a right triangle: Abbr.
- 74DGoofy picture?
Happy birthday, MikeyG! How old are you? Hope you never lose count! :D