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Edited by: Will Shortz
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Today’s Reveal Answer: Buy a Vowel
Themed answers are all fairly long, but each includes only one VOWEL. Those single letters give us the vowel progression A-E-I-O-U as we descend the grid:
- 60A Spend money on “Wheel of Fortune” … which won’t help much for solving 17-, 21-, 36-, 41- and 53-Across! : BUY A VOWEL
- 17A Something to wave with pride? : LGBTQ FLAG
- 21A Fizzled out completely : WENT PFFT!
- 36A Flashy cycling maneuvers : BMX TRICKS
- 41A “Sunday Night Football” producer : NBC SPORTS
- 53A They’re pulled to garner media attention, informally : PR STUNTS
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We have family visiting for the holiday. As a result, I only found time to solve today’s puzzle and write up this abbreviated post. I will get to the full post just as soon as I can.
Apologies, and thank you for your understanding.
Bill
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Complete List of Clues/Answers
Across
1A Scoundrels : CADS
5A Pointed end of a pen : NIB
8A Parts not filled in : GAPS
12A Cookies with their name embossed on them : OREOS
14A Prefix with -metric : ISO-
15A Attracts : LURES
17A Something to wave with pride? : LGBTQ FLAG
19A Sardinia, e.g., to Sardinians : ISOLA
20A “Absolument!” : OUI, OUI!
21A Fizzled out completely : WENT PFFT!
23A “Nothing but ___!” (reaction to a swish) : NET
24A In the style of : A LA
26A Brand of cooler named for a mythical beast : YETI
27A Play loudly, as from a speaker : BLARE
29A Break away (from) : SECEDE
33A [That looks delicious …] : [DROOL!]
36A Flashy cycling maneuvers : BMX TRICKS
38A Shared by us : OURS
39A What a new hire might learn, with “the” : … ROPES
40A “That’s not good!” : OH NO!
41A “Sunday Night Football” producer : NBC SPORTS
43A Floating markers : BUOYS
44A Wet floor? : SEABED
45A “That’s not good!” : YIKES!
47A Opera excerpt : ARIA
49A Casual turndown : NAH
50A Psychic’s alleged ability, for short : ESP
53A They’re pulled to garner media attention, informally : PR STUNTS
57A Music’s Run the Jewels or Rae Sremmurd, e.g. : RAP DUO
59A Sudden shocks : JOLTS
60A Spend money on “Wheel of Fortune” … which won’t help much for solving 17-, 21-, 36-, 41- and 53-Across! : BUY A VOWEL
62A Upside-down frown : SMILE
63A Exist : ARE
64A Skip over, in speech : ELIDE
65A Mimicked : APED
66A Perfect score in Olympic diving : TEN
67A Many bills in tip jars : ONES
Down
1D The eyes of an emoticon, typically : COLON
2D Make a case (for) : ARGUE
3D Opposite of credit : DEBIT
4D “And ___ bed” : SO TO
5D Nothing : NIL
6D Dr. Seuss’ “And to Think That ___ It on Mulberry Street” : I SAW
7D 4 on a par 3, e.g. : BOGEY
8D Hard-to-clean-up sparkly stuff : GLITTER
9D Like good omens : AUSPICIOUS
10D College instructor, for short : PROF
11D “To thine own ___ be true” : SELF
13D Sudden, powerful gust of wind : SQUALL
16D Used a stool, say : SAT
18D Athleisure brand originally from Italy : FILA
22D Homes on branches : NESTS
25D ___ Day (April observance) : ARBOR
27D Climactic fight in a video game : BOSS BATTLE
28D 0% filled : EMPTY
30D Fun word to shout into a canyon : ECHO!
31D Fashion inits. in Manhattan : DKNY
32D Those, en español : ESOS
33D Puts on, as a jacket : DONS
34D Yokel : RUBE
35D Apex predator of the ocean : ORCA
37D Marks, as a ballot square : XES IN
39D “The Thinker” sculptor : RODIN
42D Pored over : PERUSED
43D Not act up : BEHAVE
46D ___ Sea (arm of the Arctic Ocean) : KARA
48D Making a plate appearance : AT BAT
50D Scientist Hubble with a telescope named after him : EDWIN
51D Fuzzy-feeling leather : SUEDE
52D Extremes of the earth : POLES
53D Nightwear, informally : PJS
54D Oblong tomato type : ROMA
55D Lose traction : SLIP
56D “OK, go ahead” : SURE
58D Casual collared shirt : POLO
61D Desire : YEN
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