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Been There, Done That

  • Hannah Lui
  • 3 days ago
  • 2 min read

By Hannah Lui


This crossword's themed (starred) entries feature cryptic clues.


Across

1. Band with hits Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, Money, Money, Money, and I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

5. One's predecessor?

9. Misstep

14. Tattled

15. "__ beast be lord of beasts" (Hamlet)

16. Scalp pest

17. Hammer or sickle

18. From where to best view a Monet, say

19. Letter-shaped support

20. How one might describe a relationship that's been over for ages… or a hint to the answers to the starred clues?

23. Like restaurants with corkage fees, abbr.

24. Stroke

25. "Bad Girls" rapper

28. They may be mortal

31. Mentions online

34. Order from on high

36. Talked-off body part

37. It's not good

38. *Legal document assigns first chairs to play at the start of Rodeo and principal fiddle worries, “Uh… marimba?” (15)

42. Apt name for a sphynx cat

43. Have a bug

44. Pain's companion, in Hercules (1997)

45. Doofus

46. Rift after an earthquake

49. __ kwon do

50. 007 creator Fleming

51. Sisters

53. *Continuous and endless eloping destabilized Istanbul (14)

60. Lacking skill in

61. Diss

62. Makeup artist?

63. Square things

64. It's this!

65. Suspicious of

66. *Old poet can't totally fathom erotic subtext (5)

67. Apparatus for a snow day

68. Gets, as a perspective


Down

1.  "__ boy!"

2 . Blessing

3. Group of voters

4. Wing it

5. Expect to happen

6. Didn't bother?

7. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives locale

8. Diwali garment

9. The one percent

10. Term popularized by writer Karel Čapek, from the Czech word for "forced labor"

11. One lamenting the day

12. Patriotic beginning?

13. Dreamer's letters

21. "See __ eye"

22. Matriarchal whale species

25. Home of the Kaaba

26. Fan mail recipients

27. Congressional interns

29. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

30. Cartesian conclusion

31. __-garde

32. Shin bone

33. Jumbo fare from Koronet Pizza

35. Top exec

37. Classical, e.g.

39. Weak, or a reaction one might have to feeling weak?

40. Of the Lord?

41. Sch. founded by Ben Franklin

46. Like the last bar of "In the Hall of the Mountain King," vis-à-vis the first

47. "Not so!"

48. Destroyed, as a reputation

50. Fatuous

52. Times to shine

53. Caesar's stoic Senate adversary

54. Leslie __ Jr. of Hamilton fame

55. Essentials

56. Void's partner

57. Long for (after)

58. Like the White Rabbit, perpetually

59. Psyche's lover

60. "Pish!"


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