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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Puzzle 2

◆ · By Matt · Published 2020-09-24T14:45:56.751Z

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  • Mike D 🤓11:08 · 2020-09-24T15:17:54.210Z
    Another great puzzle Matt! Really smooth fill. I liked GETSAB and IRONLUNGS
    • Matt constructor · 2020-09-26T16:36:10.958Z
      Thanks Mike, IRONLUNGS is one of my favorite clues I've come up with in a while!
    • Joah The Protozoa 15:44 · 2020-09-25T06:17:34.868Z
      Nice grid! I had AORTIL for AORTIC which had me wondering why people with the star sign LEO were taller than everyone else 😂
      • Matt constructor · 2020-09-26T16:37:20.112Z
        Everyone knows people born in July-August are SUPER tall :P Thanks!
      • Emma Oxford 🤓9:26 · 2020-09-25T20:45:58.766Z
        Nice one! Can someone explain 5A?
        • Mike D 🤓11:08 · 2020-09-25T20:48:26.415Z
          I thought of it as the prefix for 2 cubed to get the prefix for 8
          • Emma Oxford 🤓9:26 · 2020-09-25T21:56:29.896Z
            Ha! That's pretty good. Is it supposed to come through as "Bi-bi-bi-?"
            • Mike D 🤓11:08 · 2020-09-26T14:26:40.642Z
              That's how it appears for me - is it displaying differently for you?
              • Emma Oxford 🤓9:26 · 2020-09-26T16:06:01.364Z
                No, that's how it appears. I was just having trouble parsing the multiplication. I can see how writing "Bi- x bi- x bi-" would've looked confusing though.
                • Matt constructor · 2020-09-26T16:39:43.095Z
                  May need to use your imagination for it to work cleanly, but mostly I liked it because I hoped it read like "Bye Bye Bye" the NSYNC song hahaha
        Play today's daily mini crossword
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        1. 1A
          Get rid of
        2. 5A
          Bi-bi-bi-?
        3. 9A
          Treatments in addition to facials
        4. 14A
          James Bond, for example
        5. 15A
          Hold one's horses
        6. 16A
          Cowboy greeting
        7. 17A
          Bits of ice off a windshield, say
        8. 19A
          "Don't get any ___!"
        9. 20A
          Regarding Trump saying we need him, Colbert: "Yes, Trump's thoroughly unpleasant, but he's necessary... he's America's colonoscopy. It's all on camera, you don't want to watch, it helps to be sedated for the whole thing, and it's a ___."
        10. 22A
          Quick turn in one direction (or is it the other direction?)
        11. 23A
          Pulled apart, as two ends of a rope
        12. 24A
          Early hours talk show, for short
        13. 27A
          Multiple Emmy-winning series set in the South with an all-Black writing staff
        14. 31A
          Clothing and outdoor equipment retailer
        15. 33A
          Informal 2-word greeting
        16. 34A
          Colbert: "The CDC claimed that telling the public the virus is extra airborne was just 'an honest mistake.' I believe the medical term for that is an ___."
        17. 37A
          American Country singer McEntire
        18. 39A
          If you dig long enough, you just might get it
        19. 40A
          "It's ___ state of affairs."
        20. 41A
          Regarding the CDC discouraging trick-or-treating, Colbert: "You know maybe that's for the best, anybody who goes dressed as a mummy is just going to get mugged for the ___."
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          Chicken ___ King
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          Middle of Biv
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          Triple platinum album and #1 single from The Weeknd -or- The Little Prince, for example
        24. 50A
          A survey found the average one in the Fortune 500 is 2.5 inches taller than the average American man
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          Bleak
        26. 54A
          Second person?
        27. 55A
          Colbert, "A Wisconsin man was shocked to discover a brain washed up on the beach. The man who found it says he came across a brick-shaped package wrapped in aluminum foil with a pink rubber band along with pink flowers. Worst ___ ever."
        28. 60A
          Beg
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          Heavy breathers?
        30. 64A
          Sweet jiggler
        31. 65A
          Org. parodied on an episode of South Park, having sports like Crack Baby Basketball
        32. 66A
          Took a gander at
        33. 67A
          Pearl necklace material?
        34. 68A
          Fearless ___, sculpture currently wearing a white lace collar in honor of RBG (RIP)
        35. 69A
          Cheeky remarks
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          Baking amt.
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          A freed Willy, for one
        3. 3D
          One who's always listening, though whose name backwards is coincidentally a part of the eye
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          A verse in a poem
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          Because of
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          Be unable to
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          Like really close friends
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          Like the Titanic (pre-ice berg)
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          Some do it with fingers on their tongue
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          Stewart and penis
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          Wow
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          Holding hands in a line, say, for short
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          GPS component?
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          Ticklish ivories
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          First Scottish word of the year?
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          Does just under 90?
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          It's often heard when you're getting lei'd
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          ___ now, sometime soon
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          Pertaining to the largest artery in the body
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          A person's soulmate
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          One's need to breed?
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          For each
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          A sheep's bleat
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          Lady of La Mancha, for short
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          Informal assents
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          Self-described floater and stinger
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          Prodded forward
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          Unable to decide
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          Everlasting
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          Untangle. But curiously, adding "un" maintains its definition
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          Theatrical performances with music, dance, and sketches
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          Frequent activity for bouncers, for short
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          Thanks in French (and in Farsi!)
        34. 55D
          A mighty wind
        35. 56D
          Katy Perry is woman, hear her ___
        36. 57D
          New Age singer and Crossword Hall of Famer
        37. 58D
          "I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ___ and ___ hence..."
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          They're dropped to trip balls, abbr.
        39. 60D
          You've probably slept with them
        40. 61D
          Bill ___ Jeans, an uninspired pants commercial character played by Michael Jackson that I just made up
        41. 62D
          Street of horror movie fame
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