Herd Mentality
◆ · By JeffsPuzzles · Published 2022-11-19T13:48:41.748Z
Constructor's Note
Time for a medium-difficulty themed puzzle relating to some of our fellow fauna. Just one solving note: if you don’t know the song in the clue for 19A, give it a listen. It’s one of my favorites: a John Prine classic best known from Bonnie Raitt’s spectacular cover, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toJ3ZYWRh24&ab_channel=levi1955, it focuses with dry-eyed sensitivity on a woman who’s tired of her life and longing for something or someone better.
Jeff Linder
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Some savings plans (acronym)
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Across
- 1ASome savings plans (acronym)
- 5AShows astonishment
- 10AAcronym for a memo to file, maybe
- 13AActress Sorvino
- 14A"Otello" or "Madama Butterfly"
- 15ATwo-door car, often
- 17ABronze and Iron, e.g.
- 18ASire
- 19A"____ from Montgomery" (John Prine)
- 20A*Belief in the "deep state," e.g. [Lemurs]
- 23AExternal
- 24ACookie I always accept
- 25AThey run E-W in Manhattan
- 26A*Six-colored banner [Lions]
- 30A"Baffled"
- 32ADine
- 33APurloined Porsche, e.g.
- 34A*Calculated flattery and friendliness [Finches]
- 39AEquine events
- 40APrevaricate
- 41AMore daring
- 42A*Criminal "enforcement arm" founded by Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel [Crows]
- 48AAnatomical counterpart of 10 Down
- 49A"Hidden Figures" org.
- 51AComedian Silverman
- 52AExperimental rock band whose members include Panda Bear - and a description of the first words in each starred answer
- 57AScore 74 (or, parsed differently, purchase a Carrier)
- 58AThey're heard in 50 Down
- 59A"Vidi" in Caesar's boast
- 60ARupert who played Ron Weasley
- 61ACeiling
- 62APEN/Hemingway and Guggenheim Fellowship winner ___ Cole
- 63ACommercial prefix with -Cap and -Cat
- 64AYoga pose
- 65AHow workers may get their share(s) (acronym)
Down
- 1DBad thing to hear from your dealer
- 2D"___ is to the mathematician what morality is to men" (Andre Weil)
- 3DQuestion of self-doubt or self-affirmation
- 4DShowed cheek or lip
- 5DSecond-largest desert in the world
- 6DImitator
- 7DSonic's home
- 8DPsychic mutant, as in "Minority Report"
- 9DCreature associated with Dionysus
- 10DAnatomical counterpart of 48 Across
- 11DSubject of Tito
- 12DWhat an F-Stop signifies
- 15D"In ____" (collluding)
- 16D___ Keaton (Meredith Baxter Birney's character in "Family Ties") or ___ Williams (Canadian comedian and author of "A Night in Halloween House")
- 21DAnte- alternative
- 22DJoined, as in carpentry
- 27D___ artery (main artery in the legs)
- 28DWhere kips are spent
- 29DDOJ arm
- 31DStart of the IIId century
- 33DOne with a passing interest?
- 34DLounge lizards, stereotypically
- 35DCross your legs while stuck on I-95 with the next rest area 5 miles away, e.g.
- 36DSum
- 37DPut on a Civil War uniform and grab your musket, say
- 38DAnnual shot in the arm
- 41DBritish musician/activist Billy ____ ("A New England," "Talking with the Taxman About Poetry")
- 42DIndigenous peoples of Aotearoa
- 43DF1 neighbor
- 44DOstrich or rhea, e.g.
- 45DFloral subjects for Van Gogh
- 46DWorld War II "code talker"
- 47DMasticate completely
- 50DWith "La," famous theatre where the works clued in 14 Across premiered
- 53DHand (Sp.)
- 54DThird-largest city in South America
- 55DReclined
- 56DYou are, in Spain