BuzzFeed – Feb 19 2016 Crossword Solution
BuzzFeed – Feb 19 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues | Answers |
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‘As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one,’ for one | ADAGE |
‘Family Guy’ mom who quipped, ‘It’s like I always tell the kids: a quitter never wins and don’t trust whitey’ | LOIS |
‘Gentlemen, start your ___’ (line from Billy Crystal’s 2004 Oscars monologue) | EGOS |
‘Give Kids a Smile’ grp | ADA |
‘Let’s Stay Together’ soul singer | ALGREEN |
‘ZOMG! That’s too friggin’ hilarious’ | ROFL |
America’s top dogs? | LABS |
Attending a class just for the joy of learning, maybe | AUDITING |
Belly button type shared by Kelly Ripa and John Stamos | OUTIE |
Beverages steeped in Chinese tradition | TEAS |
Big name (well…technically, names…) in mail-order sex toys | ADAMANDEVE |
Big ol’ sillymonster | GOOF |
Built to last | STURDY |
Celeb couple that (FINALLY!!!) reunited on screen in 2015’s ‘By the Sea’ | BRANGELINA |
Chihuahua chaps | SENORS |
Class focused on proper conjugation: Abbr | ESL |
Creator of J. Alfred Prufrock | ELIOT |
Devoted follower | ACOLYTE |
English channel? | THEBBC |
Erotic beginning at a frat party? | HOMO |
Fight | SPAR |
Fine things to ‘learn’ (if they can in fact be ‘learned’) | ARTS |
Floaty car, basically | BOAT |
French cookware company that had to remove an ‘e’ from its name when moving to the U.S. because DuPont said so | TFAL |
Gets romantically involved with | SEES |
Good list maker? | SANTA |
Hearing-related | AURAL |
His belt is well-known among stars | ORION |
In need of some editing, perhaps | LONG |
Internet connection option that’s no Google Fiber but is still better than dial-up, I suppose | DSL |
Is a huge poser? | ASKS |
Jerk while wasted | MEANDRUNK |
Kimye or 17-Across, e.g | ITEM |
Like every dish Gordon Ramsay orders on ‘Kitchen Nightmares,’ seemingly | SENTBACK |
Lohan featured in the 2014 docuseries ‘Lindsay’ | DINA |
Makes sure no one can get in without a key | LOCKS |
Clues | Answers |
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Mara of ‘Carol’ | ROONEY |
Move that may follow a Cobra Clutch | SLAM |
Mums’ mums | NANAS |
Number of J’s, Q’s, W’s, X’s, and Z’s in this puzzle’s completed grid | NONE |
On purpose | FORAREASON |
One back-packing across Peru? | LLAMA |
Poetic pattern found four times in ”Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house’ | ANAPEST |
Prince involved in a splashy fish-out-of-water romance? | ERIC |
Ramen house serving | NOODLESOUP |
Rock legend John named ‘the best drummer of all time’ by Rolling Stone readers | BONHAM |
Roman bros…or ‘bromans,’ if you will | AMICI |
Samus ___ (‘Metroid’ protagonist) | ARAN |
Sassy superstar | DIVA |
Show that features Taran Killam as 1860s newspaper critic Jebidiah Atkinson, briefly | SNL |
Singer Smith who said the likeness between his ‘Stay With Me’ and Tom Petty’s ‘Won’t Back Down’ was ‘a complete coincidence’ | SAM |
Spot during the Super Bowl, say | TVAD |
Spy org. in ‘Archer’ that had to change its name after…well.. | ISIS |
Street bum? | BADONKADONK |
Suffix with ‘legal’ or ‘bureaucrat’ | ESE |
Swanky high-rise amenity | TERRACE |
Takes off in a hurry | BAILS |
The ‘L’ in 6-Down | LIVE |
They were cast in every single ‘Harry Potter’ film | SPELLS |
They’re often hidden at the bank | FEES |
Title for some fathers | MANOFGOD |
Totally off-limits | NOGO |
Troubadour’s instrument | LUTE |
Unit between birthdays | YEAR |
Welcome with bedroom eyes | LURE |
Wiggity wiggity wack | RIDONCULOUS |
William Blake’s ‘burning bright’ beast | TYGER |
Wind instrument? | CHIMES |
Words of surprise to/from an old chap | IDARESAY |
Worker who needs to be light-headed? | COALMINER |
Wreckage | DEBRIS |
___ Elliot, heroine of Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ | ANNE |