Cute. Fun. Although I'm not 100% sure I understand every thing about it. (Or maybe I do)
DIS 🤓10:22 · 2022-08-11T16:16:44.287Z
A great example of a puzzle that's not hard but is still impressive and fun. Thanks!
DrTom 3s · 2022-08-11T16:26:57.181Z
Wow, excellent puzzle for many reasons:
(1) I could actually solve it
(2) Great “alternate” words
(3) Eight letter answer
(4) Eight sided sign
(5) Add an O and I’ve got a notice to put on my front steps - maybe the cats will read it
[Mikey G, you are so hilarious! Tell us that same pun again for the 37th time!]
9A
B or C for a certain '90s pop group
12A
Confined
14A
Basketball star who plays Scattergories on an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" ("Peanut butter would be considered a dairy product, am I correct?")
17A
Feign, as knowledge
18A
TNT component
19A
50 of 118
20A
My beloved Broncos might get at least one of these plays in the fall: Abbr.
21A
Developmental divisions
22A
"Pretty sneaky, ___" (Connect Four tagline)
24A
Mine sits in the corner and meows
27A
About 142.9 stones
28A
Crunchy lunches, briefly
29A
A and others
33A
Hummus brand
38A
Agreement
39A
Played the flute
41A
Some might be hidden
42A
Getting there
43A
When the lawyer didn't like the bakery's confections, he filed a ___
44A
They might be personal
46A
Preposition in an 1874 Thomas Hardy novel title
48A
Music genre that I've seen in crosswords ten times more than I've actually heard it
49A
This is an example of one.
54A
Ike's monogram
55A
"I Get ___" (Beach Boys song, where the answer to this clue - or the related word without the initial letter - is sung 103 times during the song...look at these sacrifices I make so you can learn stuff)
56A
[LOOK AT ME I'M A SHEEP]
58A
When you do this, it's sum fun LOL
61A
"Pretty pretty please???"
62A
Heeded
65A
7th word of "I'm a Little Teapot" (yes, you can sing it, I won't tell too many people)
66A
Lose money (my puns about money just make cents)
67A
You're so vane, you probably think this compass direction is about you (it's not, it's just a U-turn from NNW)
68A
Draft status repeatedly grumbled by Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life"
69A
Parts of matches
Verticales
1D
[Hey, you! Yes, you! You're awesome!]
2D
Opening on Broadway!
3D
Organizer for change?
4D
Cruise, for one
5D
Maintained
6D
Tiny amount in recipes
7D
Dwelling in name of restaurant founded by the Carney brothers in 1958
8D
Way you shouldn't go
9D
She said, "The child who concentrates is immensely happy" (tell my students that please)
10D
Some old computer that's an acting surname backward
11D
Fire
13D
Partner of calls on the stock market
15D
A rhombus' is half the product of its diagonals
16D
Without a clue, like on a Level 27 meta
21D
Former JFK arrival
23D
Aim
25D
UK award since 1917
26D
Victorian overcoat (or, if that doesn't help, Irish province) (or, if that doesn't help, it's an anagram of RESULT)
27D
One of two dances in the NATO alphabet
29D
Fuel that might bog you down LOL
30D
Type of integral that requires no numeric bounds (time to put all that calculus knowledge to good use!)
31D
Windy City train initials
32D
"My students don't understand their times tables! I'm going to teach them a ___!"
34D
Did some makeup?
35D
Music-hating enemy that wants to silence Pepperland (clues I never thought I'd write) in the 1968 film "Yellow Submarine"
36D
So out that it's in
37D
Summer quenchers
40D
"This croissant looks just like you!" "Wow, I'm ___ roll!"