Perfect Content

Beaming!

Perfected from its previous incarnation.

Ooohhhh that explains why I couldn't figure out how to pronounce and/or parse the title! Nicely done!

The object of my affection. Or is it my affectation?

I hesitated for a moment I thought there might be two alternates for each, e.g., for BOW, a ship part and a gesture of deference; for ROW, a tiff and a spreadsheet element,; for BASS, a fish and Lance, etc. but there were no ceteras. Thanks.

That was fun! My ESL students used to roll their eyes! What a language!

As does 49a, this puzzle rocks! BTW, if anyone is interested to learn about a fun, free Hitchcock movie-watching Zoom group, email me at chris.kochmanski@gmail.com, and I can get you added to the invitation list. No obligation to attend from Tuesday night to Tuesday night — only when the mood or the movie strikes you. A great guy named Marc Strauss runs it; I simply attend. And occasionally make inane comments.

Solved and feeling content. ;) Thanks.

If I construct puzzles half as nice as this, I'd certainly be a content creator!

(Did you hear the one about the crossword tournament? The one who used pen did pretty well, but ultimately the one who used pencil took the lead.)

Well, I'm content.

Had a bit of a go with trying to find an entry meaning to bend ones body in reverence, but when I realized it had to begin with an O and had to be in an entry numbered less than 24 it was pretty clear.

By the way, I'm a missing some word play in 49A? We use the phrase "rocks" and why joke about a spoiler alert when nothing is spoiled?

Thanks. That was perfect.

Nice one, you two! Very clever. Thanks for the puzzle!

Excellent!

Thankful!

Thanks, Wendy and Cap'n! UBOATS OTTER take a BOW. I'll be leaving through ZADORA now before I ROONE your day. Happy Thanksgiving All!

Also, there are a ton of clues that have good words for the theme, so I spent some time looking at all those too! “Club in a Manilow song,” … “Low vocal range” even has two (“low” = a noun or a verb very different meanings, ditto “range,” “club”). This puzzle could have gotten extremely convoluted, just like my tortured thinking!

When I couldn’t figure out the order (EBOTCJ??) and didn’t immediately see an obvious anagram (it’s Monday….), I started looking for a further step, like using the first letter of each pair and finding a 3-letter word that uses those plus one more. Actually worked for several. Then for some reason “double” occurred to me (don’t mind seeing DOUBLE, plus it goes with the center word MEANING) … submitted that but of course, no. Good thing the site lets you try multiple guesses!

I think I may have seen this in its embryonic stage, but now it's an all new and improved shiny plaything -- fun! Thanks, Wendy and Rick!

As a rower, I can't believe that I didn't see that 19D could be BOW until it was the last one. I even thought about that definition.

Fun puzzle and grid. Solved offline and first time using crosshare to submit answer. Thanks to both of you!

LOL had this solved in 5 minutes but didn't realize I was done. Even though I was considering the double meaning of object, I thought there was supposed to be something in front of it that I would get from the verb sense of PERFECT or the adjective sense of CONTENT. Was also trying to view mind and/or seeing through the same double lens. In the end I just decided to see if that's all there was. :) Needed google to explain 22A (and needed a couple tries to fill that 22A/23D crossing, having heard of neither). Fun stuff as always, thanks.

my first go i missed BOW and ROW... so was left wondering what to do with BJEC? had to scan the grid again to find the last two... very nice puzzle!!

well done!

Wowza! Took me a bit to get it but very clever. Thanks! Learned subject.

Well I was supremely satisfied with the meta answer. At first I asked my friend Hans, who tends goats in Munich (yep, a German shepherd) if he would help me dog down the mechanism to the answer but he kept dogging it so then I asked my cat but he looked me in the puss and said no. Then I asked our bird and I won't even tell you what he gave me! So I just finally got on top of it and that finally made me supremely happy. Isn't it funny what a strange species we are, we will do this all day long for no specie. (.....obligate space for groans....)

Enjoyed it...thanks!

No objections here!

welp... this one had/has me stumped... i think a major hurdle was that i was trying to use symmetry, though i should have known that wasn't going to work due to the center down entry... i think i did see the major pieces, and i had bject in my notes, so i guess i should have tried object before, but i didn't (and don't) understand how it relates to the prompt (or the title)

seeing all you geniuses and your fantastic puzzles and your myriad ideas, i should really know by now than to try and keep up with y'all... i guess i'm still here trying to maybe learn a tiny morsel of what you superstars can see and put together, and vainly hoping some of that lesson sticks... until then, thanks for everything, sorry for the inconvenience, and wishing one and all a good holiday

I made this much harder than it needed to be....thanks for the fun puzzle. Had the mechanism early...just looking down the wrong hole.