Garden Redesign
◆ · By Wendy Walker · Published 2024-08-04T11:00:59.974Z
Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a flower.
Good morning and welcome to this week's SSS.
Those of us who are lucky enough to have flower gardens know that they require a lot of year-round attention: planting, pruning, deadheading, watering, fertilizing, mulching ... the list goes on. And then sometimes you see a neighbor's garden and you decide to make some changes in your own plot. Change can be a good thing when it comes to flowers. And should you ever need some assistance with finding excellent plants, I suggest visiting the White Flower Farm's website (whiteflowerfarm.com).
Thank you to @Cap'n Rick and to @ajk for test-solving and suggestions and, as always, to @Joe Ross for his technical advice. Nudges later today!
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). I did get PANSY this time around though, so I'm improving. :) I then also got stuck between PEONY and using DAILY. Wanted the latter, but couldn't come up with a flower that fit for a while 1A
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Across
- 1AGratuity
- 4AMother horse
- 8A* Attorney Clarence
- 14AInventor Whitney
- 15AMiddle Eastern country
- 16AStar: Fr.
- 17AMidwest hrs.
- 18AIncursion
- 19ASoaked up the sun
- 20A* "___ la vista, baby!"
- 22AEnforcer Brasi in "The Godfather"
- 24ADozens are found in the dairy case
- 25AOpinion
- 28AUganda neighbor
- 30AIt can assign paternity
- 34AExclamation that often accompanies smacking one's forehead
- 35A"Orinoco Flow" singer
- 37A"How do you ___ Carnegie Hall?"
- 38A"Roger that"
- 40A* Up and about
- 43A"___ Come Undone" (The Guess Who hit)
- 44AMarsh bird
- 46A___ Sinclair, Wednesday Addams' werewolf roommate
- 48AU.S. medical research org.
- 49AActress Portia
- 52ALockup
- 54AFormer SCOTUS member William
- 56AOne of two pulmonary organs
- 59A"Call me ___." "OK, you're ___."
- 60A* Bell's ___ (facial paralysis)
- 64A"Hmm . . . yeah, that could be"
- 66AOtherwise
- 68AClean air org.
- 69A"Billy ___" (hit movie and musical)
- 70AClock face
- 71A"It Ain't Over ___ It's Over" (Lenny Kravitz hit)
- 72A* Poet Plath
- 73ACommon sites for athletic injuries (abbr.)
- 74AIts first cast included Jane Curtin and Gilda Radner
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- 1DPart of MIT
- 2DIngrid's "Casablanca" role
- 3DCherry centers
- 4DDebris from a moving glacier
- 5DU.S. doctors' org.
- 6DTrain systems
- 7DResult
- 8DPrevent from leaving
- 9D"I'm ___ loss for words" (clue writer's lament)
- 10D"Be My Baby" was a hit for The ___
- 11DSurround
- 12DDesigner Cassini
- 13DMarries
- 21DNew Deal org. that involved dam-building
- 23D"I'll pay when I receive it" (abbr.)
- 26DPoet St. Vincent Millay
- 27DPester
- 28D"Barnaby ___"
- 29DFan sound
- 31DAnthropologists' prefix
- 32DGertrude who was an American in Paris
- 33DReggae singer Peter
- 34DPerished
- 36DIngested
- 39DBritish king, 1820-30
- 41DWhere you are when you leave your private quarters
- 42D"Umbrella" singer, to her fans
- 45DMao ___-tung
- 47DClears up, as rumors
- 50DPeak in the Cascade range
- 51DIt ends many biz names
- 53DRR stop
- 55DMilitant organization Al-___
- 56DFalsehoods
- 57DUnattractive
- 58DVoid's partner
- 61D"___ do it, ___ fall in love"
- 62DFinal washer cycle
- 63D"___ come back now, y'hear?"
- 65D"___ quit the police department"
- 67DMule in "Low Bridge (Everybody Down)"