ACROSS
1 Printer type
5 Stepping sound on muddy ground
12 Lord's labourer
16 ___-I-Am from "Green Eggs and Ham"
19 Naked
20 Holy radiance in art
21 Plant used in skin care
22 Greek cross?
23 Italian currency before the Euro
24 Magic the Gathering's Oona and Rubinia Soulsinger, for two
25 Scored less than the opposing team perhaps
26 2013 "Best Original Screenplay" sci-fi film
27 Portuguese greeting
28 "Jet Set Radio" gaming publisher
29 It might be flipped when flipped?
31 Take the world by _____
33 Restraining cord
35 Raison _____ (reason for being)
36 Lav
37 "Love is an Open Door", say
38 Large pitcher
40 Meditative syllables
42 What a good song might be left on
45 Mystery Hunt locale
46 ___ de Graaff generator
47 Decalogue receiver
49 No and Evil, say
50 Illuminated by flames
53 Ground
54 Stink strongly (of)
55 Tranquil
58 Lachrymose
60 Bullets with visible trajectories
62 Became apparent
64 Desiccates
66 Bakery item
67 Reddit Q&A sess.
68 Grassy meadow
70 The "D" of CAD, in engineering
73 Quebec theme park "La _____"
77 Jeanne d'___
79 Spread out
81 Online trouble-maker
83 Historical period
84 Relating to wedlock
86 Largest non-polar desert in the world
88 Catch forty _____ (take a nap)
89 Star Wars character Kylo
90 The ____ of Orléans
92 Off-road sport for two-wheelers (abbr.)
93 2016 animated film "Your ____"
94 Fastening device
97 Adulates
100 Red Monopoly playing piece
101 Feel unwell
102 Warren G. Harding's birth state
104 The "T" in TV
105 Use needle and thread
106 Complaint, informally
108 Frequently
110 Cryptocurr. with "smart contracts"
112 Proper's partner
114 This crossword's hidden theme, hinted by the circled cells
116 Set free
119 "Fire in the ____!"
120 Hazy weather
122 Underwater locator
123 Simplicity
125 Cleopatra's alleged killer
126 Whip
128 Capital of Italia
130 Habitual twitch
131 It takes _____ tango
134 Cocktails Bond likes shaken
136 Lariat
138 Makes a mistake
139 Lyrical poem
141 With dash, it's a form of theft
142 "Punch-Out!!" protagonist Little ___
143 Ice skating venues
144 See 151-across
146 Confronts aggressively
150 ___-mo
151 With 144-across, Bellini ingredient
152 "Monty Python's Life of _____"
153 Day light
155 _____-weensy (tiny)
157 Motion sickness symptom
160 In the past
161 It follows 153-across
163 Anger
165 Like Bert during much of "Mary Poppins"
167 Foodie for fine dining
170 Halloween month
174 Theatre attendant
176 Giraffes' relatives
177 Lingerie items
178 They might be crushed to make Cookies 'n Cream
180 Spoken defamation
182 Clumsy lout
183 Quick cuts
184 Cleansing hydroxide
185 Sound intensity unit
187 Horn of ______ (cornucopia)
189 Letters on a tombstone
191 Price
192 At the peak of
194 "Dark web" network
195 Tennis follower?
197 Pick up (the phone)
199 Bubbly Nestlé bars
201 Requests help from the divine
202 PNG colour space
204 Driving need?
205 Edmund Hillary or Don Bradman, say
206 Meaningless chatter, when said thrice
208 Free from bacteria
210 Bawled
211 Tertiary education loc.
212 Roof overhang
213 Apportion
214 Indonesian city Banda ____
215 Greek vowel
216 Granger's activist organisation, in the books
217 Aids
218 Psychiatrist, informally
DOWN
1 Rorschach test component
2 Locked up
3 Printing mistake
4 Darjeeling, e.g.
5 Less risky
6 Marshy area, for short
7 Fertilising amide
8 Always, poetically
9 Hang around
10 Nautical rope securer
11 Monopoly publisher
12 What a spruiker might advertise
13 Rating system typically used in chess
14 Largest Antarctic ice shelf
15 Removes ceramic marks
16 Peanuts pianist
17 Interrupting throat clearing
18 Former Soviet space station
28 Preparing, for a 29-across
30 Subsidiary theorem
32 Alley-___, a basketball play
34 Young cow
35 Not given access
38 Anticipatory night
39 Entrepeneur Disney
41 "Bubble" or "merge", perhaps
42 Prog. a user may need
43 Son of 100-down
44 Non-verbal disapproval, when doubled
48 Python func. that converts 0 to '0'
51 Lands (a fish)
52 Late
53 Snake ____ (dice roll)
54 Casino city that rhymes with "casino"
55 Large body of water
56 "Beauty and the Beast" actress Watson
57 Gear up for battle again
59 "Toradora!" voice actress Kugimiya
61 wget alternative
63 USA's Homeland Sec., e.g.
65 "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the ____"
69 In the style of
71 Up for _____ (available)
72 It can be p- or p-adic in mathematics
74 Inexperienced with
75 Wonderland bottle label
76 Canvas support
78 2006 Pixar film
80 ____ mater (school formerly attended)
82 Not strict
85 Loc. for version controlled files
86 Puzzling Stack Exchange, for example
87 "Rolling in the Deep" singer
91 Bus. letter directive
93 Not at all, archaically
94 Uber alternative
95 Falsehoods
96 _____-null (natural numbers cardinality)
97 Processing ord. for a queue, as opposed to a stack
98 "We have a _____ ground to cover"
99 Like 162-down games
100 Zeus' wife and sister
103 "To be at peace" in Egyptian, as in Nyarlat_____
105 Whale type
107 IEEE 754 numbers in programming
109 World War II bomber "_____ Gay"
111 Mathematician and physicist Poincaré
113 Ham and lamb, say
115 As well
117 Vientiane's locale
118 Nintendo handhelds with cameras
121 Italy's largest lake
122 Lower leg part
124 ___-friendly
127 Mix with an implement
129 "____, poor Yorick!" - Hamlet
131 To the point
132 Target for an iron
133 Director Welles
134 Islamic holy city
135 Close to
137 Plays a role
139 cos(0)
140 Faculty head
142 Selfie stick, e.g.
145 Consequently
147 "Vault 7" leaks' alleged source org.
148 4'33" composer
149 Recapitulate
151 Fiery Team Fortress 2 class
152 Soaks
154 Wrapper in sushi
156 Joins derrière with chair
158 ____-vide, a cooking technique
159 Dawn goddess in Greek mythology
162 JP : Famicom :: EN : ___
164 Ivory's counterpart
166 Pikachu's colour
168 Art of flower arrangement
169 Chevron-like symbols
170 Face-to-face exam
171 Eatery with trays
172 "Toradora!" voice actress Kitamura
173 Python func. that converts 0 to '0'
175 Catch some ____
177 With "It!", a toy by 11-down
179 Willow type
181 Court divider
183 Flashes intermittently
186 Like a slide rule, as opposed to a calculator
188 Universal logic gate
190 It's considered to be the fourth state of matter
191 In group theory, they can be left or right
193 Voyeur
196 They're twice the size of nibbles
197 217-across, for a crime
198 Consider again
199 YAML ____ Markup Language
200 Possible physical response to a rude remark
201 Word of relief
202 Spanish rivers, e.g. Grande and Tinto
203 Oversupply
205 Take to court
207 ___ Maria ("Hail Mary")
209 "Neon Genesis Evangelion" pilot Ayanami
210 Used to be
Answer
The fully solved grid looks like this:
The circled squares contain the word INK (so, for instance, 1-across is an INKJET printer). And the central row tells you the theme - SPLATOON RELEASED. (Splatoon 2 is a video game for the Nintendo Switch, a sequel to a Wii U game. It's a family-friendly first-person shooter game in which the goal is to cover as much territory with your color of ink as possible before time runs out.)That explains the title: "Sea o' colors" is the Japanese name of an idol duo from the first game. But why is the grid so big?
If you look carefully at the finished grid (and know the theme of this puzzle) you might find that
there are some weapons hidden in the grid. For instance, the top row contains "Jet Squelcher", one of the weapons from the first game.
...Actually, it contains "jet squelchser". And other rows contain weapons with an extra letter too!
Those extra letters spell STAY FRESH, the catchphrase of the pop duo mentioned earlier.
The grid is available in this Google sheet. Thanks to feelinferrety, Sconibulus, Forklift, and Mike Q for the help solving.
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