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Sick puzzle, bro

■ · By Norah Sharpe & Dan Schwartz · Published by danschwartz

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  • Nora 🤓5:12 · 2023-09-04T02:47:25.259Z
    Fun! -Nora(no h), B rundler
    • Aaron Riccio 🤓7:42 · 2023-09-04T03:53:23.894Z
      Great gimmick, bro & sis. Despite the constraints, those three themers were distinct and fun, and the cluing was really playful throughout, with standouts to me at 48A, 58A, 61A, 68A, 34D, 37D, 38D, 40D, and 60D.
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      Across
      1. 1A
        Short rejections
      2. 4A
        You are what you do, suffix-wise
      3. 7A
        Baseball implement
      4. 10A
        A series of letters and numbers that, most of the time, bring you to a website
      5. 13A
        King topper, at times?
      6. 14A
        "I'm good"
      7. 15A
        Triple Crown stat
      8. 16A
        Opposite of paleo
      9. 17A
        Future home?
      10. 18A
        Billboard-dubbed "princess of rap" who collabed with Nicki Minaj and Aqua on "Barbie World"
      11. 21A
        Includes in a chain
      12. 22A
        Give a silent "sup" to
      13. 24A
        6 in [1, 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, 15, 15, 16, 23, 42]
      14. 25A
        Heels, etc.
      15. 27A
        Bastards, bascially
      16. 30A
        Word overused in businessy jargon that really just means "effect"
      17. 31A
        Art class attire
      18. 32A
        Sports stat. that really shows that it's all about trying your best
      19. 33A
        Site for many beastly couples
      20. 34A
        Carby spring roll filling
      21. 42A
        "How unfortunate"
      22. 43A
        "How you ___?"
      23. 44A
        Plants-to-be
      24. 46A
        Abbreviation that describes oversharing but not doomscrolling, somehow
      25. 47A
        Sit around all day and do nothing
      26. 48A
        Note that means "I'll get you back"
      27. 49A
        Part of rare tulips that can be "broken"
      28. 52A
        "High" drinks?
      29. 53A
        "If ___ Street Could Talk"
      30. 55A
        Seasonal affliction, or a hint to the circled squares
      31. 58A
        Where a lil kitten can climb up high
      32. 61A
        Starting division for new LLamas
      33. 65A
        German city home to three Max Planck institutes
      34. 66A
        "Lost" airline
      35. 67A
        Negative
      36. 68A
        Nickname for the drummer from the Police, one assumes, although I can't find any evidence to back that up
      37. 69A
        Rebuttal to "no ___!"
      38. 70A
        A whole big thing
      Down
      1. 1D
        Flatbread sometimes used to make tacos
      2. 2D
        Group with a minimum of sixteen legs
      3. 3D
        Almost never
      4. 4D
        "They ___ it!" - schoolyard reply from someone studying for the SAT
      5. 5D
        Cali capital
      6. 6D
        Where to see Rosa Bonheur's "The Horse Fair," for short
      7. 7D
        Short papers
      8. 8D
        TV network in the US and Australia
      9. 9D
        What leads to overtime
      10. 10D
        Open, as a bottle of prosecco
      11. 11D
        Go outside time
      12. 12D
        The "L"
      13. 19D
        "Into the Woods" Drama Desk Award winner Phillipa
      14. 20D
        Acrobat output
      15. 23D
        Cuter cousin to a camel
      16. 26D
        "Booooooooo," for one
      17. 28D
        System for surveillance, briefly
      18. 29D
        Big Sur runner
      19. 34D
        City that, famously, was built in one day -- hold on, I've just been told this is not true
      20. 35D
        "but...... really??"
      21. 36D
        Paste place?
      22. 37D
        Exhibition where, among other things, children ride sheep in an event called "mutton busting"
      23. 38D
        City in northern Ohio (there's also one in Italy I think)
      24. 39D
        Holding, as house buying money
      25. 40D
        "Star Wars" character whose home planet is destroyed out of spite, which feels like it should be a bigger deal
      26. 41D
        Talent show that launched the careers of William Hung and Kelly Clarkson, familiarly
      27. 42D
        Motor oil company that appears in crosswords too often imho
      28. 45D
        Field Museum highlight
      29. 50D
        Circus routines
      30. 51D
        Those a-leaping
      31. 53D
        Cartoon puppy who lives with mum Chilli, dad Bandit, and sister Bingo
      32. 54D
        American poet St. Vincent Millay
      33. 56D
        "Let's ___ up!" - person you don't want to see
      34. 57D
        Unsuccessful rebrand of "killer whale"
      35. 58D
        US health organization
      36. 59D
        Identity for one not feeling a crush
      37. 60D
        Perfect score, unless the maximum of your scale is 100, then it's a really bad score
      38. 62D
        What you're made of
      39. 63D
        Item sold by a certain hat store
      40. 64D
        Earth-friendly prefix
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