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!"


