40th Birthday Puzzle Nuzzle
Across
- 4. Steakhouse or Subaru
- 8. Your Vampire character’s given name
- 11. The subterranean bar from “Care for an Adventure?”
- 12. Derived from the Latin for calm, tranquil
- 13. Working title for a mid-life memoir
- 16. Architectural icons colloquially known as the Wilco Towers
- 18. Novel by Orson Scott Card or a laser pointer?
- 19. Site of our second first
- 20. It’s really just adult nap time
- 26. Muddle or befuddle
- 27. Without anchor or mooring
- 28. Place with dips and salsa?
- 30. Where Molly was intense in tents
- 32. Despite its enormity, this cocktail is trivial
- 34. There are pros and cons when joining
- 35. Smuggling, publishing, or campaigning
- 36. Your OkCupid nom de plume
Down
- 1. Longtime companion despite being full of hot air
- 2. You leap in this keep
- 3. Wailing and flailing from a really good nailing or keening and screaming from an obscene bean cleaning; its namesake is an Irish spirit
- 5. The unlikely lover of dolphins
- 6. This place was full of shadows before it went dark
- 7. Girls ___ ___: Popular video series (in)famous for its late-night commercials
- 9. A story which is “not yet a fully realized Marxist critique”
- 10. Court disaster?
- 14. Descendants from the royal line?
- 15. Scientifically known as laryngeal prominence, or a bite from which leads to an Edenic eviction
- 17. This petitionary stationary read: "Please keep it down. We can all hear you."
- 21. Two rabbits shared this name in “Loss and Found”
- 22. Insensible due to continual climaxing
- 23. Patron of the hearts?
- 24. Blessed with the gift of crab?
- 25. The world record is 134 in an hour (pff, amateurs)
- 26. False front for a clothing store?
- 29. An arguably misnomered spa
- 31. Your personal portmanteau for a night alone
- 33. Anno domini high definition, init.