hmmm, the first "V" in "Vivre" somewhat bothers me, but very nice.
Bird Lives 9s · 2022-07-17T20:15:37.780Z
Good mechanism, though I can't help thinking I've seen something similar before. I was hesitant to submit because I had Input/Output (IO) problems. But hey, it's Crosshare -- I could just keep guessing.
MamaEllen 2s · 2022-07-18T01:40:49.840Z
A muggle meta Monday done by Al Sisti I believe?
whimsy 🤓13:45 · 2022-07-18T00:06:14.251Z
Thank you for the fun puzzle, Lydia and Christina & congrats on your debut!
Sfull411 🤓4:14 · 2022-07-18T01:06:19.188Z
Great puzzle! I loved the clueing!
William D 🤓7:47 · 2022-07-18T08:09:32.450Z
Thanks!
Charles Montpetit 🤓2:13 · 2022-07-19T02:02:49.859Z
Fun, with fresh entries and cluing!
Alvibu67 17s · 2022-07-19T02:26:52.312Z
Great puzzle! Thank you, guest constructors!
Abide 🤓10:28 · 2022-07-19T13:47:14.136Z
It did fall quickly as I remembered Al’s MMM.
Abide 🤓10:28 · 2022-07-19T18:09:42.177Z
Intended this
ReB 4s · 2022-07-19T21:35:02.228Z
Spotted the mechanism almost immediately after finishing the grid, but for some reason I didn't try left-to-right until a fresh look today. Definitely enjoyable submission from Lydia & Christina.
graham 🤓11:09 · 2022-07-20T01:16:12.655Z
fun :D
Meta World Peace 3s · 2022-07-20T21:06:56.862Z
Way to make "getting an IV" fun! You have bright puzzling futures, Lydia and Christina. I like the DIVVY/PRIVY bookends and JOIE DE VIVRE has to be my favorite theme answer.
Ergcat 22:12 · 2022-07-21T20:02:00.246Z
Nice mechanism! Saw the abundance of “V” and thought hmmm, looks like an arrow.
Country that shares a border with Guatemala and Mexico
35A
Kilmer of "Top Gun" fame
36A
Every one counts
40A
One source for oil
41A
Intro to an address
42A
Angers
43A
Potent prefix
44A
"Bet you can't eat just one!" sloganeer
45A
Turn away
46A
Carol
47A
Cardinals' home, for short
48A
When here, do as the natives do
49A
It comes between reduce and recycle
51A
Strive (for)
52A
Word on a stub
55A
Unit for rent, in a hotel
57A
Company whose snooping may be blocked by a VPN
60A
Forbidden "snack" for a toddler
63A
Parental doctor in "Stranger Things"
65A
In text speak, alternatively
66A
Animal whose name derives from the Welsh for "dwarf dog"
68A
Jai ___
69A
What's left
70A
"Bah!", quaintly
71A
Griffin with a lovely bunch of coconuts
72A
___ leches cake
73A
They may be growing
74A
Place for crafty merchants
Verticales
1D
Dole out
2D
"This ain't my first ___"
3D
Hugo or Nebula
4D
Places where the watermelons grow, in song
5D
Focus of some recent medical research in gene editing
6D
Princess with a fork in her hair
7D
What a tongue or tail might do
8D
___-it-all
9D
Alexa alternative
10D
Feeling when life has a certain je ne sais quoi
11D
Charitably fund a chair
12D
Kagan currently in a 6-3 minority
13D
"Official Red ___, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time," from "A Christmas Story"
21D
Stun
23D
Toothy tool
26D
She famously played an elf of Rivendell
28D
Movement championed by Martin Luther King, Jr.
30D
Turner and King Cole, for two
31D
Lucerne landmark
32D
Blessing
33D
Toy that may be tickled
34D
Word with bee or power
37D
Snack someone might have up their sleeve?
38D
___ of endearment
39D
East in Ecuador
41D
Boaters, bowlers, or beanies
44D
Tigers of Baton Rouge, for short
45D
Type of show often subbed or dubbed
48D
They may be tickled
50D
Sunny season on the Seine
52D
What many U.S. women lost the right to do on June 24