Bad fill ahead. Always happens with these contest midis.
The themers come from r/boneappletea, which is a subreddit about people who THINK they know how to spell things but are veeeery wrong. Named after some guy trying to spell "bon appétit" in a post.
I have a friend who's a court reporter. She loves telling the story about a witness who once said the defendant had a "personal bandana" against her, and when the attorney questioned her she repeated it twice.
Nice puzzle, btw.
emmie 🤓5:21 · 2022-10-19T01:47:11.822Z
Awesome! r/boneappletea is one of my favorites too. :)
"Can you leave the keys under the plant ____?" "You mean the plant in front of the door? It doesn't have a ____" "No I mean ____. Like the French say" (This sounds more like it would be on a fancy dinner table than under a plant)
14A
Word before "punk" or "engine" (or "library" if you're an avid gamer)
15A
Repaired shoes, in a way
16A
Friendly introduction?
17A
"Men" who wondered "who let the dogs out"
19A
"Looks can be ____, I tell you" (Someone replied to this with "Sometimes they're even tomorrow night")
24A
A famous martial artist away from the wind? (getting a bit cryptic here)
25A
Ginny Potter ___ Weasley (...I guess) (SPOILERS!)
26A
Shoulder wrap
29A
Mammoth figure in mythology
31A
"Don't you hate when teachers used to ____ your phone?" (Is this what skeletons use to do kickflips?)
33A
Ear specialist (oh, so it's not an expert on mysterious glows or something)
34A
Beats the buzzer, say, with "out"
35A
Bases for many soups
36A
Flight company ___ Lingus
Verticali
1D
Tattletale
2D
Canonized pope from the 5th century AD (seriously, with the title AND Roman numeral? How much bad fill is in this corner?)
3D
Hindu god (or, I guess, "Indu" god, if we're spelling it this way)
4D
Certain cheap beer, for short
5D
Criminals' records (If I had a nickel for every time I included this entry in a crossword, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice)
6D
Not at the library, in a way
7D
Flask that sounds despicable
8D
90 degrees from norte
9D
Useful building for a lumberjack
10D
Advantageous quality
13D
Add fancy details to
18D
Religious greeting to Maria
20D
Deemed appropriate
21D
Daily dose
22D
Less of a mess (or how this crossword would be if I bothered to add a couple more black squares, perhaps)
23D
They put the DNA in "DeNim pAnts" (now THAT'S quite the stretch)
26D
Blood clot on skin
27D
One of 168 in a week
28D
Hair ball?
30D
Chain whose instruction manuals literally have no words
32D
Late-shift periods (abbr.) (also found in "I can't sleep yet")