With apologies to those who didn’t drink as much last week as our Puzzle Editor, below is the solution to yesterday’s Crossword.
ACROSS
1 “What the actual ______?”
5 Orders, as a Czar’s
10 Seethe, as President over inconvenient free press
14 Run _____, as newly-empowered Senate
15 Land areas, e.g., for internment camps
16 Ideal senior housing, per GOP
17 ABC, CBS or Breitbart, etc.
18 Famous ship, pre-international safety regulations
20 The ________-Chief (2 wds)
22 New 5th word of National Anthem?
23 “America, ________!” – new U.S. Senate drinking song (3 wds)
26 New territory for the DOW in 2017?
27 Chance country seldom gets after choosing fascism
32 GOP response to CIA, FBI hacking claims
36 Only place colder than Sen. Sessions’ heart
37 “________ of little face!” – humorous phrase after nuclear attack (2 wds)
38 “Nothing ____________!” (5 wds)
42 Thing denied by Ben Carson until he sees one personally
43 Ignited, as funeral pyre for democracy
44 Like 4-week-dead neighbors after Medicare repeal and graveyard riots
45 Person ending one fight and beginning another
47 Chance of “post-inaugural pivot”
49 Thing not taken by Mitch McConnell in last decade
55 Consumed, as national press re: bullshit
59 Thing to be paid for by your great-grandchildren, if any
60 Misleading emphases, as on candidate’s emails
63 “_______ Want For Christmas Is My Baby Vaccinated” (2 wds)
64 State that cast 6 Electoral votes for the Astounding Fuckplum
65 “________ is me!” (2 wds)
66 Wise man (archaic)
67 Sound of Moscow prostitutes urinating on President-elect
68 Western theater chain once as vibrant as our democracy
69 Move with heavy effort, as country back towards decency
DOWN
1 New White House décor style, per Melania
2 “______ government used to handle that…” (2 wds)
3 React in fear, as press corps to dickless bully
4 “A racist, for instance” (2 abbrev.)
5 “Smoke a _______”; reaction to recent news (2 wds)
6 Ancient text that predicted none of this
7 Place lions once mauled dissidents, and will again
8 Famed offensive in war that killed fewer Americans than “welfare reform”
9 Relief for blind, aged and disabled, accounting for 75% of all GOP gnashed teeth
10 Only weekly magazine read by PEOTUS
11 Point, as on a pitchfork in bottommost depths of hell
12 Type of 50-Down
13 Thing lit beneath British Houses of Parliament, 1605
19 Affectedly quaint, as “voting”
21 Country with better health care than U.S.
24 With “DITS,” communication elements for jailed political prisoners
25 _____ Muerte (island of death)
28 “_____-hearted Kentucky son of a bitch.”
29 “Gasp!” (2 wds)
30 “_________ Bust!” (sign carried by N. Carolinian seeking family planning)
31 Like Donnie’s eyes for 39-Down
32 By 2018, nickname for peripatetic starving forager
33 Emotion, with greed, behind Crosscheck, dismantling of EPA, etc.
34 “U ______ The Boss Of Me”: Trump Family Motto (2 wds)
35 United States Medical Examiner (archaic position after The Plague)
36 Tough thing to hide behind such a tiny penis
39 See 31-Down
40 “Wir sind die Nummer _____!” (Nuremburg cry)
41 Texter’s shorthand meaning, “Funny! But I’m Trach-ing Grandma right now…”
46 Trump courtship method
47 Type now taking payment
48 Trump penis types
50 See 12-Down
51 Undrained thing
52 Food to be illegal by 2018
53 “_______ when they come for my family” (2 wds)
54 “What did T. do to get elected?” (2 wds)
55 “Country for sale, _______” (2 wds)
56 Knockouts, as of Constitutional protections
57 Reactions to Russian kompromat video
58 “______ supposed to look out for me, Charlie…” (2 wds)
61 Soon to be on tap in Oval Office?
62 Acronym Ben Carson thought stood for “Four-Headed Aliens”
