Singled Out
About the Puzzle
I submitted this puzzle to the Los Angeles Times in 2018, where it was ultimately rejected, but I had written it a few years earlier. They didn't like the focus on songs (even though these ones are pretty well-known, I think!), but I think the idea is still really interesting and clever and well-executed, so I'm still quite proud of it!
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Across
- 1 "Chicken fried" item
- 6 Abu's hat
- 9 More conservative
- 14 Anti-itch cream ingredient
- 16 "No idea!"
- 17 1988 Poison hit, literally?
- 18 Flashed, like one's teeth
- 19 It's a bad name to have
- 20 Besmirch
- 22 Digits on govt. forms
- 23 Got a ticket, maybe
- 25 Two in a million?
- 26 Second in com.
- 28 1988 Robert Palmer hit, literally?
- 33 Company with the slogan "Dip life to the fullest"
- 36 Singer who's performed in 10 languages
- 37 Hangtime, to boarders
- 38 Stalin ordered his assassination
- 41 Uses a sick day, say
- 43 Like this column: Abbr.
- 44 Pendant shape
- 46 MacDonald's combo?
- 47 2010 Bruno Mars hit, literally?
- 51 Solder
- 52 Maine Black Bears rival, for short
- 53 It may be out on a limb
- 57 Drummer Ulrich
- 59 Kennel Club's focus
- 62 Like "shmuck" vis-a-vis "schmuck": Abbr.
- 63 Not vacant
- 65 1961 Roy Orbison hit, literally?
- 67 Went cross-country?
- 68 Sees something that isn't there
- 69 Chump
- 70 One shy of 12-Down?
- 71 Substituted (for)
Down
- 1 What a 69-Across falls for
- 2 Dress to the nines
- 3 Weather slowly
- 4 ___ Z
- 5 Bucks coach Jason
- 6 Idiosyncrasy
- 7 As a unit
- 8 Nice things to catch
- 9 Half or full follower
- 10 1996 Olympic gold medalist in tennis
- 11 Kissing, metaphorically
- 12 One shy of 70-Across?
- 13 Almost half of roulette numbers
- 15 Aim (towards)
- 21 Non-majors course, perhaps
- 24 19-Across, minus water
- 27 More passe
- 29 Dreaded men?
- 30 "Food, ___" (2008 documentary)
- 31 Super Bowl number in 2019
- 32 Cosmetics guru Laszlo
- 33 Saves, e.g.
- 34 It's topped by a keystone
- 35 Paid dividends
- 39 Vandalized, as a car
- 40 "Yahoo!"
- 42 Mortgage
- 45 Gave a beating, with "up"
- 48 Scaredy-cats
- 49 Like many occult creatures
- 50 In the grasp (of)
- 54 Big occasion
- 55 70s treaty concerning ICBMs
- 56 Don in a fitting room
- 57 Speak like Sylvester the Cat
- 58 "She's a Lady" songwriter
- 60 Other, south of the border
- 61 Spore-bearing organism
- 64 Peer of Ben and Jerry
- 66 "Fresh Prince" actress Long