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sorry, don’t get the theme answers….brain frozen
What Jeffrey said! Each of them consists of two parts, the second of which is the name of a dog breed and the first of which is (vaguely) similar to (or, at least, shares a lot of letters with) the second? In any case, I enjoyed the puzzle, for 25 minutes I didn’t have to think about Covid, and I correctly guessed the “B” at the intersection of “BRONY” and “BIZOUNCE” (two things I’d never heard of before), so I’m (more or less) happy … 😜.
SPOILERS, obviously!
jeffrey/david: The theme entries are consonancies – words that are identical when disemvoweled. E.g., the puzzle’s title, “Imitates Mutts,” is two words which both have the consonants MTTS in that order, with different vowels sprinkled into them.
This helped. Thanks!
“…barada nikto.”
Thanks Brendan!
There were actually five Schuyler sisters who made it to adulthood, even though only three show up in _Hamilton_.