Crossword: Turn of Phrase
Lili Wilson–The Tech
Lili Wilson–The Tech
This is a challenging themed puzzle by Lili Wilson. Play the online version here.
Across
1 Up to the task
5 Practice boxing
9 Injure severely
13 Uses oars
14 Not absent
15 Homer's wife
16 Popular blocky game
18 "No more for me, thanks"
19 Sort
20 A pop
21 Sci-fi writer Isaac
23 New Jersey airport city
25 Small, for short
26 "My Way" lyricist Paul
28 Nosh
29 Frenzy
31 Those in Mensa have high ones
32 Online party notice
35 Understands
37 The secret procedure that unifies the starred clues (3-Down, 11-Down, 46-Down, 50-Down)
39 Hauled
41 Sum
42 "___ we there yet?"
43 Vatican leaders
45 Fresh
49 Munich woman
51 Lil ___ X
52 Football move
54 Things to scratch
56 ___ XING (road sign)
57 Batman portrayer Kilmer
58 Sheepish
59 What someone on Twitch might record and upload later, informally
62 Popular chicken wing dressing
63 "Hollaback Girl" singer Stefani
64 Green Gables girl
65 Musical sign
66 "My bad!"
67 Stress, it's said
Down
1 Supplying weapons to
2 Heating unit
3 First name of a famously betrayed leader*
4 Common language suffix
5 Princess Fiona's love
6 Still-life fruit
7 Terrier's bark
8 Hold on to
9 "____ mia!"
10 One with a burning passion
11 Latter part of a delivery method*
12 Allow
15 Customizable Nintendo avatar
17 EMT's skill
22 Insult
24 What your heart might skip, if in love
25 Hamlet's adversary
27 Donkey
29 NYC subway inits
30 Opera solo
33 Prez's no. 2
34 Has finished
36 Insurance company with a "spokesduck"
37 Gym goers supplement
38 Distress signal
39 Half-__ (coffee order)
40 Entrance
44 What you need to do in order to collect 200
46 Prefix of a popular pizza chain*
47 "Seinfeld" gal
48 Metal worker
50 A dish often served with croutons*
52 Adolescents
53 Mathematician Lovelace
55 Cheeky laugh
56 Kind of school
58 Tolkien villain
60 The key to deciphering this puzzle's theme
61 Goat's cry