Get to Gettin'

Nice "aha" moment with this one, Will - very nice

Thanks, Will! A fun one!

My only misstep was thinking that the Lions at 27A were thematic, but fixed that quickly enough since SHAKEL A LEG was unlikely. :)

Fun one. Thanks, Will.

Fun puzzle, Will!

Another fun one! Now back to the WSJ. Thanks Will!

Clever puzzle. Thanks, Will.

Lots of fun, Will! Thought of you yesterday when I saw a preview for "Arthur the King."

This was fun, Will. Thanks!

Clever meta and great AHA moment. Thanks Will!

That was some happy solving… Cheers!

Yes, like others I started adding a few other “ing” clues into the mix but that idea died when I realized the themers were tied in nicely to the meta and there lied the answer. Fun one Will, thank you! (And Go Lions!)

Nice red herring with the 6/5/3 words

Fun puzzle! Nice aha moment! Felt like someone pieing me in the face since I should have gotten it earlier but too many things vying for attention in the grid when I should’ve been reading the clues

Fun one, thanks. Started with all the *ing words but (fairly) quickly saw the link (not to say tie) to the themers. Was preparing to do something fancy with those nine entries when it suddenly occurred to me that I should probably check the first letters...

We tried to include clues with waiting and crunching, but that didn't work...

Not "Hi and bye" after all. Thanks for this fun one, Will!

Not lyin’ - I was dyin’ to figure out how those themers were tyin’ in with all the weird clues containing lying dying and tying! My path to solving was that as I was doing the grid, I was highlighting all the clues that seemed oddly worded (15A, 58A, 1D, 31D were the biggest ones) — then saw that they all contained an x-ying verb and saw that there were others that also did, though not as oddly worded (such as 17A). Great fun finding (almost) all the rest, highlighting their entries, and backsolving for the rest! BTW, The term “stans” was completely new to me, as was the word “flats” for the two-bone wing thingy… nice to know what to call them now!

Nicely done, with a click to let you know you've solved properly.

Thanks as always!

Not to much to add to the comments. The title must have jogged my mind a bit after I found the three rhymes, as I then then quickly saw the "ing" words in the clues, and the rest was a smooth ride. Fun time, and well-constructed.

Thanks!

Thank you for the puzzle, it was very enjoyable!

Fun! Unique meta to me anyway. I had to work at it a bit.

Enjoyed it!

Fun one, although it took me a bit to see it. Thanks for the puzzle, Will!

Nice puzzle Will, thank you. It was interesting to see that the title gave the mechanism, though of course you did not know that until the end. I like how everything tied together. I managed to solve it by "mistake"...I had TED for EDWARD giving me S?TTA. "In a mall", what???? I also could not get AIL that way, and I spent a lot of time saying "tying on a few too many" when to me to "tie one on" IS to get drunk so I thought "instead of saying tying one on last night there must be something to do with plurals." But then it hit me that you had also said something about lying so I went looking for others. In the end, my desire to vie for the solve had me vying with all the other meta fans. I was going to tell you all the story about how I was able to buy a villa on the French Riviera through only the sale of multicolored t-shirts, but I did not want to relate a tie-dye lie....

Really fun, thanks.

If you'd been looking for a three-letter word akin to "get a move on" I'd've sent in HIE!

I never would have gotten this. And I didn't. But I feel I must still be missing something. What is the significance of -ying words? And of there being three of each type?