Origins
■ · Por Sommersmith · Publicado 2022-01-14T11:00:44.380Z
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Building for fixing up, or fixing-up for a building
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- 1ABuilding for fixing up, or fixing-up for a building
- 6A*German state that shares a border and a name source with the Czech region of Bohemia
- 8AThey might pull out all the stops
- 10ALet loose
- 11AAahs' partners
- 13AMeadow
- 14A*Marvel superhero with a metal in his name ultimately derived from a proto-Indo-European word for "blood"
- 17A*Just dandy; the last two letters might come from a nickname for Martin Van Buren, a Choctaw loanword, and/or a fanciful misspelling of "all correct"
- 18A*Winter beverage term whose origins are hotly debated
- 19AStock launch, briefly
- 20A*"Der ___": German news magazine whose name means "The Mirror" and is derived from Latin "speculum"
- 22AApple's Tim Cook or Google's Sundar Pichai: Abbr.
- 23A*Auspicious meaning of the names Malik and Roy
- 24A"I said hey, is this my problem? Is this my fault? / If that's the way it's going to be I'm going to call the whole thing to _____" - Paul Simon, "Gumboots"
- 26A*In Greek it means "the study of true senses [of words]", and it's the branch of linguistics alluded to in the clues to this puzzle's starred entries
- 29AOpen up, with "on"
- 30AIt might get braided
Verticales
- 1D"Despite all my ____ / I am still just a rat in a cage" - Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
- 2D*By wading into a river, you might succeed at doing this to the bloodhounds on your tail; it's also a cognate with "wading"
- 3D*Largest Chinese ethnic group, with a name derived from an imperial dynasty lasting four centuries
- 4D*Journalist Shapiro, whose first name means "lion"
- 5D*Just like "buffalo", this term also originally referred to a European animal
- 6DVisit after hours, perhaps
- 7D*Historical era that began July 16, 1945; its advent proved that its namesake particle is not "unbreakable", as the word's Greek origin suggests
- 8D*Black and white dessert with a crushed cookie crust; the cookie's name might come from the scientific term for the laurel wreath in its original design
- 9D*Voluptuous; the useful suffix on this word can turn nouns into adjectives and adjectives into adverbs
- 10D*Drink too much from this and you might cause a fiasco; it's also a cognate with "fiasco"
- 12D*One who turns up their nose, from a term for "nose"
- 15DFish eggs
- 16D*Members of a Lakota subtribe whose name means "to scatter one's own"
- 21D*Country whose ancient capital on the Nile River lent its name to a Tennessee city on the Mississippi River
- 25DThree ____ and a cot: the bare necessities
- 27D*Cryptozoological prefix derived from the Proto-Germanic word for "sea"
- 28D*Mined material whose name is, surprisingly, unrelated to the Spanish word for "gold"