Really fun puzzle Matt! I feel like I always learn some fun facts (and jokes) from your puzzles
Matt costruttore · 2020-08-30T13:49:55.160Z
Thanks very much, always appreciate your kind words Mike D!
Joah The Protozoa 11:15 · 2020-09-01T15:03:16.645Z
Wow AFROPICK got me. I saw PICK and was immediately "locked" into only thinking about metal locks.
Kent D 🤓30:44 · 2020-09-09T21:10:27.261Z
Fun puzzle! I definitely got caught up on who Trevor Noah is :-) One tiny issue - when you peer at something you peek at it. A peak is a summit or high point. Awesome puzzle, thanks!
Item that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy did not know the price of
10A
Most people are from there
14A
___ Greement, the most boring punny Bond Girl name I can think of
15A
Bears in Latin
16A
Unit of torque that's a combination of a unit of length and a unit of weight, abbr.
17A
Like JFK and LGA
18A
Weapon used by 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse to attack BLM supporters
19A
Part in a play
20A
Noah: "Melania looks like she's got fashion designers on speed dial, whereas Trump looks like he stole his suit off of a ___ version of himself"
23A
Got to third base face down, maybe
24A
OD destinations
25A
Take ___ inside (peer into)
28A
It comes off your butt
30A
"So I read this ___..." (What I say when I learned something from a meme)
32A
Campaign donating organizations, for short (Stephen Colbert's was called, "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow")
35A
With regard to Melania seemingly taking jabs at him, Noah: "I mean, no wonder Trump was sitting there the whole time, looking like he was watching his own ___"
38A
Univs.
40A
Believer in Jah
41A
German artist Paul (anagram of LEEK)
42A
Noah: "Ok, is it just me, or does every Melania speech seem like she's taking shots at her husband?... I was watching this like, damn, she may have gotten rid of the trees in the Rose Garden, but she made sure to bring ___"
45A
Game that utilizes a 20-sided die, for short
46A
Follower of the natural philosophy proposing that the physical world is composed of fundamental indivisible components" (Don't we just call that science now?)
47A
Like the emoji with a half-smile and raised eyebrows
49A
Most people are not one
50A
Juice accompanier
53A
Little bits
57A
Noah: "But after that rocky start, who better to smooth things over than vice president of the United States, and ___ in human form, Mr. Mike Pence."
60A
Assistant who I will not make fun of here out of fear of retribution during a robot uprising
62A
Release from a magazine
63A
Unable to walk normally
64A
Operatic song
65A
Suggest, slangily
66A
Nuclear deal participant
67A
Pulitzer Prize winning album by Kendrick Lamar
68A
Inquired
69A
To the right, on la mapa
Verticali
1D
Nip varieties are sold to tabloids
2D
___ life (be very successful)
3D
Noted sign stealer
4D
Female activist Yousafzai shot in the head by the Taliban at 15, recovered, and then won the Nobel Peace Prize (I helped an old lady cross the street once... but it's not a competition)
5D
Certain
6D
With "The", nickname for the Cleveland Indians, though probably not for too much longer
7D
Comparatively distant
8D
Seasonal worker who probably ends up with a sore lap
9D
The most slippery object in the world (well, in the cartoon world)
10D
Implement for some major locks
11D
Like a stunner or Steve Austin
12D
Under the weather
13D
Lincoln nickname
21D
Going down, abbr.
22D
Wild ___, (semen, in a metaphor)
26D
Of a European mountain range
27D
(Typed) in
29D
Things heard in traffic
31D
Stay in their lanes!
32D
Contemptuous exclamation
33D
___ five, lowest straight in poker
34D
Shiny wheel
36D
Dying efforts
37D
___Kosh B'gosh, children's apparel company
39D
Like many an Indian Ocean pirate
43D
"___ is fine, but liquor is quicker."
44D
Single ___, type of tournament, abbr.
48D
Exclamation to someone not being straight
51D
"No worries."
52D
Resigned statement of futility
54D
Old Russian rulers
55D
Point a scope towards
56D
Play part
58D
Requirement for Americans to travel to most Europe countries starting in 2022