Complete Clue List
Across
1. Hives are abuzz about her (5,3)
5. Tubby marsupial much like a wombat
8. Auf Deutsch, please: "Ich gebe ___ Quokka Futter." (They'll eat it right out of your hands!)
9. Secretive fowl, such as the bobwhite
11. Quit, as on your Task Manager
13. You might administer quinidine or quetiapine in this ward (abbrev.)
14. German skin creme brand
16. Burqa-like face covering
18. Possibly common winter decor in Quebec?
21. Stingerless servant to 1A
22. A quint, en français
25. French actress Seydoux
26. Connects a snake, a jellyfish, and a conch (not to mention, corgis)
27. Experimental controls - what your solar panels were put through (abbrev.)
28. Actor Rutger of "The Hitcher"
29. Ms. Goldberg of "The View"
31. Keanu in "The Matrix"
33. A bazaar (var. spelling) - perhaps where you'd buy a vaccuum cleaner?
36. (Colloquially) actor who played Quaid in "Total Recall"
37. Nonchalant, oui oui
38. Vintage maker of go-karts and dirt bikes
40. Aves. (and I don't mean birds) (abbrev.)
41. Red weaver whose scientific initials are Q.q.q. (Maybe most numerous wild bird on Earth?)
43. Pish
45. Chlamydia or herpes, e.g. (abbrev.)
46. Request
48. Grants, during quid pro quo perhaps
50. Equine (shoo-in for the front half of a 26D?)
52. Buckeye school (abbrev.)
53. From Qatar or the Qinlings, e.g.
54. The Quattroporte and the Q60 are these kinds of cars (pl. abbrev.)
55. Small spotted mammal. Gives the boys on Rottnest a rival for Oz's cutest critter!
56. A phylogenetic grouping. 5A and 55A share one
Down
1. Koalas, kangas, and cassowaries live here, a continent away from Quokkaland
2. The Phanerozoic one contains the Quaternary period
3. Desert where the quiver tree lives
4. Questioners - though more like "Q" magazine than a quizmaster. (Brit. spelling)
5. Not content to be "green," one monitor lizard is called this
6. Quokkas, like other roos, have extra thick cartilage here
7. Increase quantity
10. Epithet of hip-hop's "The BasedGod" - no relation to 1A
12. Flatbread
15. A quantity plus a magnitude. The velocity of a quokka ("hopping 15 kph that-a-way"), e.g
17. Long-lived mollusc, though I've never seen one drunk
19. Runner-turned-MP Seb
20. Popular U.S. overnight chain: Quality ___
21. In the queue
23. Quokkas, in the context of Western Australia (they LOVE taking selfies)
24. Hibernation - hush, now...
26. Extinct equids - patterned sort of opposite to an okapi (pl.)
27. Quadrilateral, for instance
30. The quandong, or desert peach, lacks one of these
32. Brave as they are, quokkas only quiver at the ___ of things
34. The aurochs, by another name
35. Resplendent bird of Guatemala, who represents the Aztecs' main deity
39. Measures of thickness of layers (like in Quilted Northern)
42. Perceived with a quokka's rounded ears... or any ears
43. The Quasipaa are a genus of this - they get around like quokkas do
44. Like quokkas, these Aussie animals are flightless, although with them it's more surprising
47. Large genus of 43D
49. French aqua
51. Quill replacement