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This Might Be a Crossword Part IV

· Di Sommersmith · Pubblicato 2024-06-12T19:37:31.824Z

Constructor's Note
Happy birthday to John Linnell of They Might Be Giants! Every clue and entry in this puzzle is taken from a They Might Be Giants song lyric or title.
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  • Frisco17 🤓3:17 · 2024-06-12T20:09:38.662Z
    best crossword series on the site per my very biased opinion
    • FrankieHeck 🤓8:04 · 2024-06-12T21:12:26.902Z
      Amazing! Did you share this with the Johns?
      • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓3:44 · 2024-06-12T22:36:25.707Z
        Phew! That was challenging (since I haven't listened to TMBG since our kids were very small) but also brought back a lot of memories (especially from HS).
        • C Demone 🤓7:34 · 2024-06-12T22:52:11.723Z
          Awesome
          • C Demone 🤓7:34 · 2024-06-12T22:52:00.975Z
            Awesome
            • Uncle Juke 🤓13:40 · 2024-06-13T01:56:02.116Z
              I am sure knowing the songs would have helped, but clearly it wasn't necessary
              • Account 🤓13:13 · 2024-06-13T02:21:14.171Z
                Wonderful! I'm going to a concert of theirs this weekend!
                1A
                "The marshal's binoculars ___ / And skyward they train"
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                Orizzontali
                1. 1A
                  "The marshal's binoculars ___ / And skyward they train"
                2. 6A
                  "A cell knows what it has to do / To grow into some moss or a shrew / ___ or a kangaroo"
                3. 11A
                  "You've still got some Wite-Out / Enough to ___ all the previous line"
                4. 12A
                  "Should you ___ when the skullhead is in front of you / Or is it worse because it's always waiting where your 10D don't go?"
                5. 13A
                  "Which one of us is the one that we can't trust? / You say that I think it's you but I don't ___ with that"
                6. 14A
                  "As I'm sure you're ___ / You've got one of those rare / Combustible heads / I read an article all about them / You're on fire"
                7. 15A
                  "Dewey ___" (title of a Scott Joplin-inspired instrumental)
                8. 16A
                  "Squares ___ look distant in her rear view mirror / But they're actual size / Actual size to her"
                9. 18A
                  "Uno mas uno es ___"
                10. 19A
                  "Magic marker / Edna Ferber ___ / Baking soda / Cobra venom / Poker caddy / Money for dope"
                11. 21A
                  "Here on fibber island / We strum rubber guitars / Our friends live on Mars / And we ___ buttons on our cars"
                12. 22A
                  "There's a knock at the door that I ___ / There's a face at the window, a smiling yellow face"
                13. 24A
                  "Particle ___, Particle ___ / Doing the things a particle can / What's he like? It's not important / Particle ___"
                14. 26A
                  "Today was going to be the year / I kept a closer watch / Stepped up another ___"
                15. 29A
                  "He's got a watch with a minute hand / Millennium hand and an __ hand / And when they meet it's a happy land"
                16. 30A
                  "You know, chemistry is like a relationship. And that's why when you're looking for ___ design, go to the best: The Chopping Block. You might not know it, but over 50% of ___ designers are sleepy and cranky."
                17. 31A
                  "___ can I sing like a girl / And not be stigmatized / By the rest of the world?"
                18. 33A
                  "In my prison cell I bide my time / Always thinking / Always busy cooking up an ___"
                19. 35A
                  "Do you sing like ___ Oyl on purpose / You guys must be into the Eurythmics"
                20. 37A
                  "Sure as you can't ___ a train / You can't change your fate"
                21. 38A
                  "Fall in love with the too-tall girl / Whispers pretty ___ / In a megaphone / Fall in love with the too-tall girl / Knows more etiquette / Than Connecticut"
                22. 39A
                  "I'll never be a star / Since there's just two songs in me, and this is number ___"
                23. 40A
                  "Don't, don't, don't let's ___ / This is the worst part / Could believe for all the world / That you're my precious little girl"
                Verticali
                1. 1D
                  "Austere, severe, he held few people dear / His oratory filled his foes with ___"
                2. 2D
                  "I'm waiting for my ride / But I want to wait inside / The store where they let me play the ___"
                3. 3D
                  "All hail the Bloodboat! / A tribute to the mighty seafaring vessel / The crashing sound of flatware / Came deep from her ___ bay onto the wharf"
                4. 4D
                  "It's hard to understand me from the language I ___ / There's no word in English for my style"
                5. 5D
                  "Then one day the scientists recovered all their gear / Excited by the prospect of unearthly things inside / They found, to their astonishment, a living thing within / It ___ to bear good tidings from somewhere in outer space / You're not 17D / You're not 17D / Behold the mystery that is me'"
                6. 6D
                  "And it sticks like a broken record / Everything sticks like a broken record / Everything sticks until it goes ___ / And the truth is, we don't know anything"
                7. 7D
                  "Finger pointing, eyebrows ___ / Mouth in the shape of the letter 'O' / Red means stop; do not go / No / No / No!"
                8. 8D
                  "Life is a test / But I confess / I like this mess I've made so far / ___ on a curve / And you'll observe / I'm right below the horizon"
                9. 9D
                  "Time is flying like an ___ / And the clock hands go so fast, they make the wind blow / And it makes the pages of the calendar go / Flying out the window, one by one"
                10. 10D
                  See 12A
                11. 17D
                  See 5D
                12. 20D
                  "We've been driving around / From one end of this town to the other and back / But no one's ever seen us / Driving our Econoline ___ / And no one's ever heard of our band"
                13. 21D
                  "She ___ your goldfish free / And now she's sighing / Blew out your pilot light / And made a wish"
                14. 23D
                  "___ obey what the children say" (or, in some live performances: "Children obey what the ___ say")
                15. 24D
                  "I'm employee of the ___ / Number one crumb-making son of a gun"
                16. 25D
                  "But the ___ we felt for each other was kept / In our private backstage world / All our hatred was left behind / When we took command of the First Avenue Stage"
                17. 27D
                  Afghanistan, Brunei, ___, Denmark, Equador / Fiji, Guatemala"
                18. 28D
                  "Hey, ___ing sombrero / Gently waving in the air above the meadow / Softly floating in the sky outside the window / ___ing sombrero, don't be shy"
                19. 29D
                  "Dark and metric is my town / North, ___, 32D, and south / Just because you're smiling / Doesn't mean you haven't drowned"
                20. 30D
                  "Hi, ___ the Replacements / And ___ playing in a rock'n'roll band"
                21. 32D
                  See 29D
                22. 34D
                  "John ___ Supertaster / Tastes more than we do"
                23. 36D
                  "You probably get that a ___ / I'll bet that people say that a ___ to you, girl"
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