Well, He Means...

[MaineMarge]

Off the couch. Thanks Jay!
And off now to sit in the Easter bunny’s lap. Bet his belly feels like jelly…

Little neighbor Dorothy

[dot]

A tisket, a tasket, something fun for our basket! Fun and nice way to start the week.

[Ergcat]

Off the Couch! Fun, easy one to start the week! Thanks, Jay!

[TeamDoubleTow]

We thoroughly enjoyed the puzzle tonight! Thanks so much! Happy Easter... Passover and Marathon Monday to everyone!

[Bird Lives]

We close Day Two with another thirteen solvers added to the list:
56. Snood
57. BrennerTJ
58. Naptown Kid
59. Rufus T Firefly
60. HeadinHome
61. madhatter5
62. dot
63. cwillmore
64. Gmoney
65. Bob cruise director
66. LB800
67. markhr
68. DebbieC

I've also gotten some fine additional theme clue/entry suggestions. Keep 'em coming.

[cbarbee002]

Interesting grid and a fun start to the week. Thx Jay!

[vandono]

Oh, how I needed this. I don't think I've had more than an hour to spend on puzzles in almost a week. I needed a win. Thanks, Jay!

[Bird Lives]

It’s Wednesday, aka Nudgeday. Unfortunately, with a puzzle at this level of difficulty I imagine people are saying
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Nevertheless, in this week of ceremony and ritual, we will keep to our age-old traditions. The first nudge is one that DrTom was nice enough to contribute.

Eat one for the Gipper

And two more to ensure that your Easter basket runneth over with nudges.
Some of the long entries are real words or names — the sort of thing you might come across in everyday life. Those are irrelevant, mere grid-fillers. Pay no attention to them.
Some long entries are ridiculously contrived phrases that nobody would ever use in actual writing. Those are the ones to listen to.

[auee89]

Thanks Jay! Confirmed on Crosshare.

[LadyBird]

Thanks for the sweet little puzzle. Off the couch.

[ship4u]

Thanks, Jay! The solution was fun. The grid was particularly tough for us and took quite a while to complete.

[MaineMarge]

Just sayin, @Bird Lives , you’re a real fungi.thanks for all the fun you contribute to all us Muggles who appreciate fun and clever guys.

[SewYoung]

Have been off the couch since Monday, but just now had a chance to post. Fun puzzle.

[TMart]

Off the couch!

[Bird Lives]

Time’s up. Pencils down. We’ve come to the great reveal for this meta that has kept so many scratching their heads. Or maybe not so many. Maybe not any. We had 80 solvers.
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The answer was JELLY BEANS. The four theme entries and the title are all rhymes, and as far as I know the only Easter-adjacent rhyme I know for that pattern is “Jelly Beans,” though as I admitted in the intro, my knowledge of Easter traditions is incomplete.
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Only three solvers were inspired to offer, and two of these included green rubber boots for mucking about in the garden.

Hep hives - swell bee scenes. (KayW) I like the historic touch of hep for swell. It reminded me of the line from Dave Frishberg's song "I'm Hip." "When it was hip to be hep, I was hep."

Woman who has a closetful of green gardening boots (Wendy Walker)

Two from Whimsy.
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Welly Freans.
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Thanks to all solvers. I’m just a tad disappointed that nobody mentioned the clue that I was proudest of:
21A. Uncle who said, "With great power comes great rice"?
Maybe it would have been better as “With great rice comes great responsibility.”

[MsMonkeyGirl]

Hi there! A lurker and a newbie here. I'm working my way through these great meta puzzles trying to get myself 'off the couch' as the kids say nowadays , and I'm proud to announce to zero fanfare, I'm sure, that 'jelly beans' was my first! Phew!