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#a bit of arabic. a bit of scots but honestly i don't know enough about it to know whether it's scots gaelic or scottish english
coquelicoq · 2 years
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another themed puzzle 🥰
Across
1. Casual conversations 6. British network nickname, with "the" 10. "A Farewell to ___" 14. Party hearty 15. Poker pot starter 16. Horn sound 17. ___ acid (protein building block) 18. Actress Rowlands 19. Male turkeys or cats 20. Show up late to Wimbledon? 23. In a snobby fashion 24. "___ High" (1999 song that name-drops Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, and Aphrodite) 28. Striped shirt wearer 29. Suffocate 30. Non-___ (label on some organic foods) 33. Insult Sesame Street's resident vampire? 36. Satisfied sounds 38. Shortly before? 39. Farm equipment 40. Put one's money where one's foot is? 45. Broadway sign acronym meaning "we have no more seats to sell" 46. Binge 47. ___ capita 49. "It has a certain je ___ quoi" 50. Like an issue divided along party lines 55. Take a whack at farming? 57. In this place 60. Peeples and Long 61. Patterned upholstery fabric 62. Awestruck 63. "Give or take" 64. Run in the wash 65. Musician related to Herman Melville who shares a name with a Herman Melville character 66. "Read 'em and ___!" 67. Makes, as income
Down
1. Studies into the wee hours the night before a test 2. Surround 3. Dispatch boat 4. Tightening muscle (anagram for NOTERS) 5. Like spoons used to make spaghetti 6. "Everything" breakfast item 7. Foe 8. Sicilian volcano 9. "Heck if I know" 10. Above all others 11. Friend of Pooh whose name rhymes with "Pooh" 12. May honoree 13. Ave. crossers 21. Old 45 player 22. Popular ice cream flavor, for short 25. Synagogues 26. Mister in Mexico 27. "One lump ___?" 29. Storage space for yard equipment, often 30. West African nation 31. Purple shade 32. "That's for sure" 34. Labor Day mo. 35. Uno + due 37. Game plan 41. ___ to the throne 42. "Whoa, Nelly!" 43. Mortgage figs. 44. 1970 Beatles chart-topper 48. Swiss lozenge brand 50. New moon, e.g. 51. "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" writer 52. Downhill racer 53. Kind of wrench 54. Requires 56. Goodyear product 57. Western omelet ingredient 58. Bigheadedness 59. Burgle
#i like this one because i think the theme clues are quite clever! and theme clues are really hard for me#cruciverbs#my posts#i said the other day that simple/common french and spanish was allowed in american crosswords but there is also a very little#german and italian that is allowed. german: the numbers 1-3 (4 and 5 are pushing it)‚ a‚ the‚ no‚ Frau‚ Herr#i've seen echt a few times but it always reeks of desperation. if a constructor can use anything else in that spot‚ they will#danke and to a much lesser extent bitte#italian: the numbers 1-3 and 7-8‚ ciao (which doesn't count because it's been borrowed into english)‚ sera (as in buona sera)#and sometimes german and italian is included if it's part of the titles of famous works but i would count that separately#japanese: obi is very common. i used to see hai but haven't in a while. nisei. tatami. noh (this one also reeks of desperation)#a bit of arabic. a bit of scots but honestly i don't know enough about it to know whether it's scots gaelic or scottish english#nyet in russian. sometimes you'll see duma and dacha. as you can see it's either words that are extremely well known#(greetings‚ yes/no) or words that just have a very convenient arrangement of letters#of course words that have been borrowed into english are fair game. there are several yiddish words/phrases that show up#some hebrew. names of holidays in various languages#lots of names of culinary dishes which i also wouldn't count because usually they are retained in english#now i'm thinking about sera and how sometimes it's clued to be about que sera sera#and how up until like...a month ago i just had that filed in my head as italian#and idk why i was thinking about it but suddenly i was like wait. que is not an italian word. that is definitely not italian#i just looked it up and apparently it's not spanish either (or it's ungrammatical spanish)#fascinating! you can put whatever in a song and americans will just be like sure sounds like it could be some language or other#and then not think about it ever again#i think all americans should learn more languages so i have more options for words to put in crosswords#i kid i kid. that's a stupid reason. unless...? 😳#just found this in my drafts and idk why it's in here. it seems fine to post? so i'm posting it lol#it's already been printed in the freakin' newspaper
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