The 2-letter postal codes of states are formed into common words and phrases. There are duplicates, but without looking at a map, do you know which ones are missing? (I immediately saw one glaring omission…) 14-A. *Approach : CO/ME NE/AR . Colorado, Maine, Nebraska, Arkansas 16-A. *Overly ornate : FL/OR/ID . Florida, Oregon, Idaho 24-A. *Messing with one's head : MI/ND GA/ME . Michigan, North Dakota, Georgia, Maine 49-A. *Tom Wolfe coinage for the 1970s : ME DE/CA/DE methods of preservation of food . Maine, Delaware, California, Delaware 62-A. *Drink of the gods : NE/CT/AR . Nebraska, Connecticut, Arkansas 63-A. *Simple forecasting aid : WI/ND VA/NE . Wisconsin, North Dakota, Virginia, Nebraska
I don't think I would have guessed this theme in a million years without the reveal! But at least I was able to fill the entire thing in without any lookups. methods of preservation of food From a constructor's viewpoint, this was an especially difficult type of theme to create. Competing 6- and 8-letter entries necessitated asterisks to differentiate methods of preservation of food the theme entries. I can understand why TX was omitted...but here's a challenge: Find your state that was omitted, and come up with a valid word or phrase that includes methods of preservation of food it, along with at least two other postal codes. (***See spoiler at bottom of this post)
Across: 1. Just the right amount of tight : SNUG . (See 61-down) 5. Hip-hop's Run-__ : DMC . From the 80's. Never heard of them, but evidently methods of preservation of food they were very influential to the genre. 8. Significant : OF NOTE . 17. Beef at the dinner table : RIB ROAST . and 34-Across. Butcher's offering : T-BONE . Are you getting hungry yet? 18. Provoke methods of preservation of food : FOMENT . 19. Sports drink suffix : ADE . 20. Healing aid, briefly : TLC . methods of preservation of food T ender l oving c are. 21. Some August babies : LEOs . 22. Cyrus the Great's domain : PERSIA . Here is an interesting timeline map that goes from 8000 B.C. to modern Iran. 1:10 28. Right in an atlas : EAST . 29. Author Dahl : ROALD . We have had him many times before. 31. Cease, with "off" : LAY . 32. High-tech debut of 1981 : IBM PC . 40. Dressing vessel : CRUET . 41. "Oh, yeah!" : BOO-YA . 42. Minor concern, maybe : AGE . HaHa, "minor" in this case being one who is under-aged. 43. In a way, informally : SORTA . 45. Cries of pain : YOWS . 52. "60 Minutes" first name : LESLEY . Stahl. I like her style.
Lesley Stahl 54. Choice usually made secretly : methods of preservation of food VOTE . 55. Minute measures: Abbr. : CMs . Centimeters. 56. Rehab concern, methods of preservation of food familiarly : DTs . 57. Like old videos : GRAINY . 60. Zealous to the extreme : WHITE HOT . 64. Eucharist plates : PATENS . 65. Suffix for Brooklyn or Manhattan : - ITE . 66. "Lemme __!" : AT 'EM . Down 1. Tough spot : SCRAPE . 2. "I'm stumped" : NO IDEA . 3. Earthy colors : UMBERS . Had to look at perps to decide between ochres and UMBERS. 4. Angela Merkel's country: Abbr. : GER .many. This was a gimme. 6. Like the days of the week, in Span. : MASC .uline. WAG. I know very little Spanish, but with four letters, I guessed it would not be "fem." But now that I think of it, I could have gone with "neut." 7. Old PC component : CRT . C athode R ay T ube. 8. Transgress : OFFEND . 9. __ insurance : FLOOD . 10. Asian menu assurance methods of preservation of food : NO MSG . 11. Gold or silver source : ORE . 12. Pie holder : TIN . My pies are baked in a pie plate. I associate a pie TIN with frozen ones. 13. D.C. summer setting : EDT . 15. "The Little Red Hen" denial methods of preservation of food : NOT I . 21. Short, for short : LI'L . 23. Michael of R.E.M. : STIPE . Should I link? Not a fan, so I'll let someone else who likes them pick their own. 24. Gruesome : methods of preservation of food MACABRE . 25. Hand lotion ingredient : ALOE . 26. __ best friend : MAN'S . 27. Major TV logo : EYE .
Eye logo 30. Go (for) : OPT . 33. AI game competitor : BOT . A rtificial I ntelligence. BOTs are considered NPCs (non-player characters.) 34. Play (with) : TOY . 35. Annual celebrations, casually : B-DAYS . Does C.C. know yours? Send her a note - she remembers everything! 36. Impulse : URGE . 37. Took to court : SUED . 38. Housing plan unit : LOT . 40. Rotating piece : CAM . 43. Half-goat creatures of myth : SATYRS . 44. Lines of praise : ODE .
48. Nervous __ : SYSTEM . 50. Cybernotice for a party : E-VITE . 51. Late-night host O'Brien : CONAN . 53. Business sign abbr. : EST'D . Established. 55. IOU : CHIT . 57. Econ. yardstick : GNP . 58. "In Dreams" actor Stephen : REA . Did not remember this guy . 59. Fake being : ACT . 60. Doughboy's conflict, briefly : WWI . 61. Actress Mendes : EVA .
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