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The Midi With an Unoriginal Theme

◆ · By Brian Callahan

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  • Strawberry Mango 11:06 · 2023-04-06T00:01:35.897Z
    Great theme!
    • kieranjboyd 🤓4:12 · 2023-04-06T05:32:32.409Z
      Yawn
      • Carolyn Kl 6:09 · 2023-04-06T12:13:55.700Z
        Never realized 13a was such a long word
        • JeffsPuzzles 🤓2:01 · 2023-04-06T12:07:10.072Z
          Fun - took me back, um, almost 50 years to my days on our high school paper, when the editor-in-chief used to find many submissions "hackneyed, banal, and trite."
          • norah 🤓3:10 · 2023-04-06T18:12:43.275Z
            nice
            • kurtalert 🤓2:43 · 2023-04-07T03:07:54.471Z
              Good one! I didn't remember what hackneyed meant before the puzzle. Not sure I'll ever forget now!
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              Hackneyed
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              Across
              1. 1A
                Hackneyed
              2. 6A
                Hackneyed
              3. 11A
                Wake up
              4. 12A
                Pre-calc devices?
              5. 13A
                Devices
              6. 15A
                Long-tailed ___ (small bird)
              7. 16A
                "What can brown do for you?" company
              8. 17A
                Hackneyed
              9. 18A
                Needs for some business presentations
              10. 20A
                Nile biter
              11. 21A
                Skip
              12. 23A
                Hackneyed
              13. 25A
                Utah national park
              14. 29A
                King Kong or Donkey Kong
              15. 30A
                Dump
              16. 31A
                Secondary account, in Internet slang
              17. 32A
                1960s craze featuring four mop-topped Liverpudlians
              18. 35A
                "Sesame Street" muppet with a fondness for baths
              19. 36A
                Actors Ryan or Tatum
              20. 37A
                Hackneyed
              21. 38A
                Hackneyed
              Down
              1. 1D
                Hackneyed
              2. 2D
                Ancient Anatolian area
              3. 3D
                Oxidizes
              4. 4D
                Suffix incorrectly (but humorously) used with "good" and "best"
              5. 5D
                Pop star Jason with more than 57 million TikTok followers
              6. 6D
                Apt letters missing from "__t_an _ounds"
              7. 7D
                Actor Vigoda who, despite numerous reports of his death dating back to 1982, actually died in 2016
              8. 8D
                Onetime iPod models
              9. 9D
                Cause a scene
              10. 10D
                Put one's house on the market
              11. 14D
                Like the Finger Lakes vis-a-vis New York City
              12. 19D
                Call off
              13. 20D
                N.Y. Congresswoman, for short
              14. 22D
                Swiffer Sweeper, e.g.
              15. 23D
                Work of Verdi or Puccini
              16. 24D
                Wasn't vertical
              17. 26D
                Underwear brand that once featured a commercial with Michael Jordan sporting a Hitler mustache (it's not that hard not to have a Hitler mustache...like seriously, M.J., WTF?)
              18. 27D
                Inventor Howe
              19. 28D
                Hackneyed
              20. 29D
                Resting
              21. 30D
                Go downhill?
              22. 33D
                Frequent Father's Day gift
              23. 34D
                Feminine name found in "pomegranate"
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