The Big 5-0
■ · Por Sommersmith · Publicado 2021-09-14T10:00:26.079Z
Wow, I've posted kind of a lot of crosswords, haven't I? I knew I wanted this one to be a commemorative one, especially after solving my fellow Crosshare constructor Joah's own similarly-themed puzzle a few weeks ago. (Check out Joah's excellent puzzle here - https://crosshare.org/crosswords/vopZNBFuTb5nQOWl4OJA )
Thank you to everyone who has been solving my crosswords, and thanks for all the comments, feedback and encouragement I've gotten. Thanks especially to Mike D for creating this platform, Clairellyn Sommersmith for supporting this new obsession of mine (and doing my crosswords with her staff at work!), and Huan-Hua Chye for test-solving some of my more involved grids, including this one!
Comprobando datos de juego anteriores…
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Originally a biblically-mandated period every 13A years for the forgiveness of debts; now any major anniversary celebration
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Horizontales
- 1AOriginally a biblically-mandated period every 13A years for the forgiveness of debts; now any major anniversary celebration
- 8A"Wow, 13A 16A in ten weeks? You're _______!"
- 9APressure measurement, for short
- 12AGateway Arch city
- 13AWith 16A, what I've posted on Crosshare between July 7th and September 14th
- 15ABring home
- 16ASee 13A
- 18ASounds from a crib
- 20ATribal land, informally
- 21ALetters after a business name
- 22APresident on the 13A dollar bill
- 25APintful, often
- 26ASlo-___ fuse
- 27ALike 13A-13A odds
- 28ARussian space station whose name meant "peace"
- 29ASuperlative suffix
- 30AMuesli morsel
- 31A"13A 16A in ten weeks? That's nothing to _______!"
- 33AThis crossword, for a publication requiring 15x15 grids, rotational symmetry and all-over interlock
- 37AFull range
- 38AAt a rate of five per week, how long it should take me to post two hundred sixty-one 16A
- 39AID on many financial documents
- 40ATraditional gift to celebrate 13A years of marriage
Verticales
- 1DEsposo de María
- 2D"I look terrible in that photo - _____ me!"
- 3DGandalf's opponent in the mines of Moria
- 4DSmelter's raw material
- 5DMusic's Reed or Rawls
- 6DWallach of stage and screen
- 7DLetter shapes with which the Romans wrote the number 13A
- 9DPlaces to get a New York slice
- 10DSheet music letters indicating a strong accent
- 11D"Try constructing crossword 16A," they said. "_________," they said. "Won't consume your entire life," they said.
- 13DFilling up, at Kwik Trip
- 14DChews out
- 16DBritish baby buggies
- 17DActor Adam or cartoonist Adams
- 19D_____-faire: Confidence in any social situation
- 23DWithout ice
- 24DExplosive letters
- 32DSome radios
- 33DSack
- 34D2015 hit for Chris Brown and Tyga, with some problematic-at-best gender politics
- 35DSinger ___ Shannon or restaurant ___ Taco
- 36DPassing craze