A Bite of Banality

Answer of the Week
February 23, 2025 - March 1, 2025

 

New York Times, Sunday, February 23, 2025
Authors: Daniel Grinberg and Rafael Musa; Editor: Will Shortz

⁶⁷ASS BACKWARDS

67 Across: Totally the wrong way … or what's found in 79-Across?
^{79 across: "It'd be my pleasure" = IMHAPP(YTOOB)LIGE (BOOTY)}

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Honourable Mentions
February 23, 2025 - March 1, 2025

* denotes Answer of the Day

 

*3 Down: Brooding genre - EMO
40 Down: Certain young parent - TEEN DAD
New York Times, Thursday, February 27, 2025 • Author: David Steinberg; Editor: Will Shortz

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*26 Across: Area of frenetic dancing - MOSHPIT
30 Across: "Stan" rapper - EMINEM
40 Across: Donkey Kong Country console, for short - SNES
6 Down: "Ammo" for a modern-day cannon - T-SHIRT
24 Down: Donkey Kong, e.g. - APE
48 Down: Seat of New York's Oneida County - UTICA
New York Times, Wednesday, February 26, 2025 • Author: Dan Caprera; Editor: Will Shortz

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1 Across: Mario Kart item providing temporary invincibility - STAR
20 Across: Meg Ryan's co-star in "When Harry Met Sally …") - BILLY CRYSTAL
*44 Across: “The Simpsons” grandfather - ABE
48 Across: Gesture with razzle-dazzle - JAZZ HANDS
53 Across: One most likely to get pwned - NOOB
66 Across: Extra life, in video games - ONE UP
New York Times, Tuesday, February 25, 2025 • Author: Greg Snitkin; Editor: Will Shortz

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*7 Across: Omelet component - EGG
New York Times, Monday, February 24, 2025 • Author: Rena Cohen; Editor: Will Shortz

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20 Across: Hint at L.G.B.T.Q.+ story lines to generate buzz - QUEERBAIT
77 Down: Singer whose 1985 song "Running Up That Hill" became a top 10 hit in 2022 after being featured on "Stranger Things" - KATE BUSH
New York Times, Sunday, February 23, 2025 • Authors: Daniel Grinberg and Rafael Musa; Editor: Will Shortz