Mostly Themeless (Themeless 8.5!)
◆◆ · Por Frisco17 · Publicado 2021-08-14T04:22:05.839Z
Constructor's Note
made for max, like most of my puzzles (but this one especially)
Comprobando datos de juego anteriores…
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Horizontales
- 1AVarious
- 9APlay: a part?
- 12ABrain pain
- 13AYour love, to Ke$ha
- 15AMoney maker?
- 16AThey'll be the judge (sorry, actual judge)
- 19ANortheastern city, lake, or canal
- 20AKe$ha, for one
- 21ACraft, in Latin
- 24ACharacter who says "Sometimes I eat instead of facing my problems!" in Despicable Me 2 which is such a mood lemme tell ya
- 26AColor that may or may not be tacky, but definitely rhymes with tacky
- 27AEspecially floofy neckwear
- 28AShut (it)
- 30AIt can be brief?
- 32AJess Glynne song with the lyric "Every daydream I have starts and ends with you", which doesn't make sense because "every daydream" starts with E and ends with M
- 34ASong with the lyric "HI", technically
- 38ABrendan Byrnes album based around the use of xenharmonic and microtonal tuning systems
- 40ATook the hint, either literally or figuratively
- 41ACertain profiles
- 42ASlouch
- 43AKind
- 44AThe end of it all?
- 45ABring out the big guns (after previously being stocked with only small or medium-sized guns)
- 48ACertain Soundsystem
- 50A___ of Thieves (game developed by 5-Down)
- 51AGreen, often
- 53AFishing tools
- 56ATiger type
- 57A.1
- 62A"Shhhhhhhhhhit on a shingle."
- 63AEmerge
- 64AWhat I may say to you for accepting the minor symmetry edit and 2-letter entry here in exchange for making all of the fills acceptable (Abbr.)
- 65ABaby on board, maybe?
Verticales
- 1D"___ Awake?", super cool They Might Be Giants song that features a backwards marxophone
- 2DMath term that's shortened by one letter so what even is the point of abbreviating it
- 3DPepper, for one (Abbr.)
- 4DCopper, as of the newest Minecraft update (even though it's been 4-Down even before the update because its existence in the real world has nothing to do with Minecraft but I digress)
- 5DSee 50-Across
- 6DType of ranking list
- 7DNaval banner
- 8DDissuade
- 9DColors and numbers, e.g.
- 10DLucas of Fred
- 11DWalk down a school hallway in slow motion while wearing sunglasses, maybe
- 14DPreceder of drain, in Pokémon
- 17DFrisk's initial reaction to seeing Muffet, maybe
- 18DHindu honorific
- 21DCertain start signifier
- 22DBrand of arm massager (You have just found: THE WORST FILL OF THE GRID! I'd be very proud of you if you figured this one out first try!)
- 23D"L'chaim!", less Jewishly
- 25D"When the fog clears in Los Angeles, ___"
- 28D37-Down, for one
- 29D"Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen ___" (Yes I know I've done this clue before but I like it so shut up (also the first one didn't have the A so it's different enough so shut up pt. 2)
- 31DPerson who may march, according to the classic one-liner
- 33DHomer's review of Peter's beer in Joe's "The Family Simp" (along with the commentary that it's "not subtle or nuanced", and that it's "tasteless and lukewarm")
- 34DCurious George, for one
- 35DFucks up a certain feeder, idiomatically
- 36DOnline offering
- 37DGift for Daddy, in a certain Vulfpeck song
- 39DAct like warm milk, maybe
- 43D"Wouldn't apply to me."
- 45D"There's the ___!" (Masseuse's exclamation?)
- 46DChilling out, slangily, if the letter R didn't exist (sorry it's just hard to think of an original cluing angle for this besides something relating to a bogus direction comparison)
- 47DItalian river
- 49DShoes with 13 holes on their tops
- 52D"Does today’s NYT crossword include the band ___?" (Twitter account)
- 54DMan prefix, in Team Fortress 2
- 55DBe angsty
- 58DIt can be either 59-Down or 60-Down, or before both
- 59DEarlier than 60-Down
- 60DLater than 59-Down (Abbr.)
- 61DWord used to get Jude's attention