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  • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓5:07 · 2023-12-11T02:26:42.490Z
    That was fun! (Loved the Boswords shout-out at 51A…)
    • joeadultman 🤓23:13 · 2023-12-14T02:08:07.307Z
      great puzzle, dan! loved it. thanks for making these
      • JoshSolves 🤓26:45 · 2023-12-14T02:39:46.600Z
        I liked it!
        • frostyjhammer 2:50 · 2023-12-19T16:04:03.163Z
          TIL 14A
          1A
          Wine that can have a pink color
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Wine that can have a pink color
          2. 5A
            Island featured 2023's "Napoleon" (one assumes, I didn't see it)
          3. 9A
            Group with pride
          4. 14A
            Word after blind or line
          5. 15A
            Like "zest," but you can't get it from an orange
          6. 16A
            "You have bested me"
          7. 17A
            Tea
          8. 18A
            Falco who says in a "Sopranos" episode, "Why be an army at all? How about a veterinarian?"
          9. 19A
            Chicas
          10. 20A
            NYC neighborhood where you could probably get some deviled eggs
          11. 23A
            Hospital places
          12. 24A
            Fam
          13. 25A
            Bothers
          14. 29A
            "..........ok later"
          15. 30A
            Break me off a piece of those foll-ow-ers!
          16. 32A
            CBS franchise that has been getting forensics wrong for 23 years
          17. 33A
            Song that I associate with Linda Rondstadt, but apparently it was written by Randy Newman, and also its most successful version is by Chantal Kreviazuk for the Dawson's Creek soundtrack
          18. 36A
            Ironically (?) I don't have one for this clue
          19. 38A
            "How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: ___ Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis" (2016 nonfiction book by Adam Weiner)
          20. 39A
            Belonging to us
          21. 40A
            Mikaela Shiffrin, for one
          22. 45A
            ___ "Scratch" Perry
          23. 46A
            Like the people of the Lower East Side represented negatively in a Santigold song
          24. 47A
            Mornings
          25. 48A
            Mistakes on the printed page
          26. 50A
            Skater Midori
          27. 51A
            Good bond rating (this clue is for Will Eisenberg iykyk)
          28. 54A
            Defensive strategies in hockey when one team has a power play
          29. 58A
            Honorary MBE, for one
          30. 61A
            The main part
          31. 62A
            Country home to singer Khaira Arby
          32. 63A
            Parts of a diameter
          33. 64A
            Marketing name for Jamaican tangelo
          34. 65A
            When you might have to hit the high notes
          35. 66A
            Praise highly
          36. 67A
            "In Ha ___" (Ice Spice bop)
          37. 68A
            Group with Pryde
          Down
          1. 1D
            Nouveau ___
          2. 2D
            Different
          3. 3D
            Barkers of the non-dog variety
          4. 4D
            Tim Roth's role in "She-Hulk"
          5. 5D
            Bible book misquoted in "Pulp Fiction"
          6. 6D
            Saw through the door
          7. 7D
            The "When We Were Young" festival, for millennials
          8. 8D
            Guinness who appears eight times in "Kind Hearts and Coronets"
          9. 9D
            Striped (pronounce this with two syllables) (it won't help i just prefer it that way)
          10. 10D
            Flash, as of light
          11. 11D
            "___ Cop Bad Cop" (2006 French-Canadian buddy police film)
          12. 12D
            Govt. agency with a "What Can I Bring?" website
          13. 13D
            How I might refer to my cats, in a text
          14. 21D
            Island in the Inner Hebrides
          15. 22D
            Milder curse replacement
          16. 26D
            Search far and wide
          17. 27D
            Why I'm crinkling up the empty papers from Reese's peanut butter cups, for short
          18. 28D
            Neither wins nor loses
          19. 29D
            Cat's paw pad, cutely
          20. 30D
            Real crafty like
          21. 31D
            German ones
          22. 33D
            I don't care what anyone thinks!! I'm going to say "less" whenever I feel like it!! Stay mad!!!
          23. 34D
            Spa cave material
          24. 35D
            "people on here will tweet anything. “Charlie Brown had __.” No he didn’t. That isn’t true." - @matrixreloaded, 8/31/2020
          25. 36D
            Busy doing nothing
          26. 37D
            Action taker
          27. 41D
            Terse one-star review on Letterboxd, say
          28. 42D
            Home of the Chogha Zanbil ziggurat
          29. 43D
            Insect that can be leaf-shaped and green in order to camouflage
          30. 44D
            "Don't worry about me"
          31. 49D
            Thirty days between March and May
          32. 50D
            "You are about to begin reading ___ Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler." - first sentence of ___ Calvino's novel "If on a winter's night a traveler"
          33. 51D
            Sound you lose when you hit "snooze"
          34. 52D
            Gotham FC midfielder Long
          35. 53D
            From Korea, perhaps
          36. 55D
            Grad
          37. 56D
            Toy once called an "Automatic Binding Brick"
          38. 57D
            Large format where I saw the re-release of "Stop Making Sense"
          39. 58D
            Word replaced by "R" in Kesha's "We R Who We R"
          40. 59D
            Slang for vinyl records
          41. 60D
            Landmark civil rights law of 1990, for short
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