Too kind! Incidentally, the person in the graphic is how some people feel after trying to get through some of my grids!
FrankieHeck 🤓11:40 · 2022-03-27T13:53:38.570Z
I just give myself a minute to get into a "Mikey state of mind" before I solve :-D
whimsy 🤓22:20 · 2022-03-27T03:12:09.326Z
Oh, yeah!
whimsy 🤓22:20 · 2022-03-27T12:24:08.773Z
Adding to my original comment which was a quick expression of feeling regarding the season opening. I since discovered the other half of the puzzle which makes things even better! Just didn't want the world thinking I'm a beer-swilling fan who ain't got no CULCHA! Great stuff, Mikey!
Bahaha, I send my sympathies. Thanks, I thought of "example" first, but that didn't give anything worthwhile. Surprised there was something that great for "instance," for instance!
KayW 11:19 · 2022-03-27T20:00:22.583Z
Excellent!
woozy 24:39 · 2022-03-27T23:09:00.625Z
Don't over think it, woozy, don't overthink it.
Laura M 🤓25:52 · 2022-03-27T23:35:04.537Z
Great meta! I jumped the gun with an incorrect first submission when I didn't quite think it through, oops. Agree that 39D is genius!
C64 23s · 2022-03-28T03:29:48.794Z
I backsolved the first word, figuring there were only two reasonable options based on the title.
Final Four matches, and I totally didn't have Gonzaga and Arizona in the championship match so it's not like my bracket is completely busted or anything
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Final Four matches, and I totally didn't have Gonzaga and Arizona in the championship match so it's not like my bracket is completely busted or anything
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Qualified
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If you find these creatures, you might be in de-Nile
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Sheepish? (This clue is so ewe)
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56-Across that comes from the Greek for "handful"
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Type of side
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Quickly parries and ripostes?
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Mudder's father ("His mother was a mudder")
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Start of a cycle?
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Oodles
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One of five
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Where to find sweaters, perhaps
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Wicker item in which to place a check for your landlord?
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Energy-storing molecule produced in the mitochondria (powerhouse of the cell), for short
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Biblical vessels
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Excite
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___ vera ("Hello to you too!")
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See-36 Down
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Outfit you wear while committing a treasonous act?
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Part of CBS
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"When a café has great coffee, it ___ my respect"
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"I don't want this book of Mikey G metas back, trust me"
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1998 Sarah McLachlan song I've never heard of, except in crosswords
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Touch (either forward or backward!)
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Silly doofus who's disrupting our outdoor meal of fried chicken and potato salad?
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Seized vehicle
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Pass
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See 15-Across
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Zenith
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"I need to use some 34-Across!" "Well, let's not make any ___ decisions"
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Roquefort for a ragdoll?
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Type of mathematical function whose image is equal to its codomain (wow, thanks)
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Creature at Christmastime who likes to Shrek the halls LOL
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Had leftovers, maybe
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Not e'en once
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Intersect
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My favorite are of the pop variety
Verticales
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Egypt has one
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Adjective in a 1928 political campaign promise
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Places to fill up (in more ways than one!)
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Abbr. in film starring Mike Wazowski, my spitting image
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Comprehends
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Cost for a plug
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Muscle
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First word in one of the US's 50 most populated cities
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Ambulance VIP
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Evaluate
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Move furtively, like the coiled spring
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Break down
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"I found a new candy shop!" "___!"
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Type of 35mm camera (what's that?)
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It often consists of a tokkuri (carafe) and an ochoko (cups)
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Hubbub
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It's 1 on the Mohs scale for hardness
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First name of Taylor, who created a set of infinite polynomials in mathematics used to approximate transcendental functions (fine, a babbling stream)
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Strong praise, like what I give a Gaffney meta even when I have no idea where to begin
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One of the networks that airs MARCH MADNESS GAMES, BABY
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"___!" "Hay is for horses!" "See, this is why you're never invited anywhere"
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Hammerstein's contribution
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Capp, Pacino, and more (What about a cappuccino?)
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Job that may involve pulling some strings
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French 35-Across
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First word in title of song that begins "When I find myself in times of trouble"
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Ancients, for instance: Abbr.
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Spree
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Rather, at one time
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Eva or Juan
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Foolish, like my puzzles
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"___: The Origins of Our Discontents" (work by Isabel Wilkerson)
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Really bizarre, like my puzzles
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This is how it starts!
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Fan ___ (some poorly written work about ceiling fixtures, I guess)