after creating a puzzle like this and your two top-level crossword tourney finishes (that i know of), you have no right to call anything you say or do dumb.
perhaps you don't need to have something smart to say (though it helps), but you do need to have SOMETHING to say, which is why i will never be able to write anything.
i would have solved without checks, but 36a/37d did RATTLE me.
Thanks for shouting me out! You're my best friend!
Brendan W Sullivan 6s · 2022-07-03T16:29:09.223Z
Fun puz! I was able to plunk down 25-Down right away thanks to listening to "Welcome to..." and seeing them play it live way back when they were called We're Wolves!!!
"Bright" by Duanwad Pimwana is the first novel in this language to be translated into English
16A
Silent, but deadly, gas
17A
Cryptocurrency, for one
18A
"Hi, my name is __. __'s short for Edward."
19A
Set of three notes
20A
Snake with a suit and tie who says words like "pivoting" and "synergy"?
23A
49-day period between Pesach and Shavuot
24A
We'll all be portions for foxes if we find ourselves here
25A
Elote, as given to you for free by a snake?
32A
Peninsula in Egypt
33A
The name of my friend's cat, who is named after the singer Guthrie
34A
Where I've got to get back to after my latest prototype explodes
35A
Dried sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
36A
"Poll Finds 30% Of Americans Still Undecided Whether To Vote Out Of Fear Or ___" (Onion headline)
38A
Navajo word for the Navajo people
39A
Type of fi. that Octavia Butler writes
40A
Shock into silence
41A
"...ok nevermind"
42A
Sequel to the smash hit snake musical "Mamba Mia!"?
46A
Born in Brest?
47A
Ending with St. Peters, Harris or Fredericks
48A
Hid a snake under the blankets when company came over?
55A
Stop what you're doing, with "out"
56A
Driver or passenger
57A
Biggest city on the Big Island
58A
She traded her voice for legs. Good trade y/n
59A
According to Canadians, how Americans say "I apologize"
60A
It's bad from the body
61A
Dressy _____ (Denver band with the song "Electrified")
62A
Juste pute "E" one thee ende ofe wordse toe makee theme looke ____ timeye!!
63A
Seven days in May (or June, or actually whenever)
Down
1D
Different category (abbr.)
2D
Repeat this word for an example of this word
3D
"Meantime we shall express our darker purpose" speaker
4D
Like a moment in time
5D
Jambox
6D
"Sheeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit" but for kids
7D
Word heard over and over in the Bmore Club classic "Mr. Postman"
8D
Archaeological place
9D
Architectural style of the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
10D
"Never in a million fucking years" as an answer, for example
11D
"____ has only thought once" (from the Wikipedia entry for Garfield)
12D
"Hi" of the tiger?
13D
One of the conjunctions you will find at Conjunction Junction
21D
Prefix meaning "all"
22D
She released the album 30 at age 33 so now I think everything is a lie
25D
First lyric from the More Humans song "Welcome to the Childhood Home of Andy Warhol and Dan Marino"; also, a 2018 novel by Madeline Miller
26D
Sign at a radio station
27D
Indigenous people of the Caribbean
28D
It can help with a transition
29D
Little Russian pancakes
30D
Sprinted to the stage
31D
"I'll make _____ with you" (Me when someone tells me I can't eat 30 donuts in a row)
32D
Where you'll put your merit badges
36D
Prayer to Jesus (when the prayer is "take the wheel")
37D
Place for drinks
38D
Where kings and queens hold court
40D
How to savor a beautiful birthday cake made just for you
41D
Beginning of an ode to an graduate school exam?
43D
quietly seethes while scrolling through spotlessly clean kitchens with like air fryers and sous vide cookers, used by people who know what they're doing
44D
Word after all or climb
45D
"______ Diaries" (Kendrick Lamar song)
48D
Panacea
49D
First name for Mr. Pitiful?
50D
Track 2 from tUnE-yArDs' 2011 album "w h o k i l l"
51D
"What's going on? Do we have a ____? ____ or no ____. Let's make a ____. So what is the ____?" - Michael Scott, The Office