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Wassailing times / WED 5-6-20 / Places surfers frequent for short / Robert...
Constructor: Ali GascoigneRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (the "Challenging" part is due solely to the time it took to discover the rebus + the time it took with the fiddly extra keystrokes...
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Banned supplement / THU 5-7-20 / French city that was objective for capture...
Constructor: Bruce Haight and Peter A. CollinsRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (2/3 finished before I "got" a theme answer)THEME: W/M spoonerisms — phrases where initial "W" and initial "M"...
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Periodic Atacama occurrence / FRI 5-8-20 / Its exterior is edible mold...
Constructor: Daniel LarsenRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: noneWord of the Day: Atacama (19D: Periodic Atacama occurrence = DESERT BLOOM) — The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de...
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Pam's mom on The Office / SAT 5-9-20 / Bollywood's Rukh Khan / Something Jane...
Constructor: Erik Agard and Miriam EstrinRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (6:33 on an oversized grid at a sleepy 4 in the a.m.)THEME: noneWord of the Day: CARL Laemmle (56A: ___ Laemmle, film pioneer...
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Item in toxic internet challenge / SUN 5-10-20 / Theater impresario Ziegfeld...
Constructor: Adam FrommRelative difficulty: Medium (11:37)THEME:"Border Crossings" — two countries that abut one another (I think), and then there's some word that "crosses" (i.e. spans) the "border"...
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Funny Girl role for which Barbra Streisand won Oscar / MON 5-11-20 / Many...
Constructor: Ross TrudeauRelative difficulty: Medium (maybe a *little* tougher than usual ... I felt like I was *flying* but I came in at an average time) (3:10)THEME: BOTTOM ROW (38A: Last line of a...
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Microsoft virtual assistant introduced in 2014 / TUE 5-12-20 / Black Knights...
Constructor: Tom Pepper and Zhouqin BurnikelRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (3:20)THEME:"THIS IS NOT A TOY" (36A: Product warning label appropriate for the answers to the four starred clues) — themers...
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Bar offering with double triple varieties / WED 5-13-20 / Opposite of legato...
Constructor: Benjamin KramerRelative difficulty: Medium (4:30)THEME: writing increments — last words of themers run from a mere PASSAGE all the way up to an entire OEUVRE:Theme answers:SAFE PASSAGE...
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Breakfast aisle option for wheat allergy / THU 5-14-20 / Indian tourist mecca...
Constructor: Michael SchlossbergRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (probably actually "Easy" but I solved this while still half-asleep and my timer says Easy-Medium) (5:22)THEME: BINGO— all the themer...
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Gilbert and Sullivan princess / FRI 5-15-20 / Rapper on the 2001 #1 hit "Lady...
Constructor:Christopher AdamsRelative difficulty:Easy-MediumTHEME: noneWord of the Day:Straight of JUAN de Fuca (51D: Strait of ___ de Fuca, waterway separating Washington State from Vancouver...
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Home for Hogarth or Constable / SAT 5-16-20 / Unit of magnetic flux / Means...
Constructor: Tracy Gray and Jeff ChenRelative difficulty: Easy (5:50)THEME: noneWord of the Day: Donna SHALALA (41A: Congresswoman who once served in the U.S. cabinet) — Donna Edna Shalala (Arabic:...
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Chinese port city on Korea Bay / SUN 5-17-20 / Pan flute musician in iconic...
Constructor: Byron WaldenRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (9:48)THEME: none— puzzle has a title ("Wide-Open Spaces") but there's no actual theme; the title just describes the amount of white space in...
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Houston-based food giant / MON 5-18-20 / Three goals by same player / British...
Constructor: Christina IversonRelative difficulty: Easy? Medium? People seem to find it easy, but I'd never heard of one of the themers, and therefore I was Way over my average ... THEME: MONOPOLY...
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Counterculture singer Phil / TUE 5-19-20 / View in order to mock or criticize...
Constructor: Trent H. EvansRelative difficulty: Easy (3:07)THEME: Tom Swifties— ugh, it's a thing, look it upTheme answers:WITH RELISH (17A: "This hot dog is absolute perfection!" said Tom...
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Pacific root vegetable / WED 5-20-20 / Canadian sketch comedy show of...
Constructor: Natan Last, Andy Kravis and The J.A.S.A. Crossword ClassRelative difficulty: Easy (4:01 at a trotting pace)THEME: 1 word, 2 words— three-word phrases where the second two words, combined,...
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Classic work famously translated by John Dryden / THU 5-21-20 / Lewis Taste...
Constructor: Andrew KingsleyRelative difficulty: Easy (untimed)THEME: RED CROSS (37D: Organization with three Nobel Peace Prizes ... or what "corrects" the answer to each of the starred clues) — theme...
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Classic source of damask / FRI 5-22-20 / Marina frequenter informally /...
Constructor: Hal MooreRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (maybe more Medium) (5:30, first thing in a.m.)THEME: noneWord of the Day: ROSE ROYCE (49A: Soul group that did the soundtrack for "Car Wash") —...
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Peter preceder in phonetic alphabet / SAT 5-23-20 / Timor UN member since...
Constructor: Wyna Liu and Erik AgardRelative difficulty: Mediumish (8-ish + find-the-vowel-error-in-the-foreign-word!)THEME: noneWord of the Day: Tyr (40A: It's named for the Norse god of war: Abbr....
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Mystery of McGuffin Manor / SUN 5-24-20 / Sprint competitor / Tech debut of...
Constructor: Andrew ChaikinRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (9-something to fill grid in correctly ... then 5 minutes to read the novel-length notes that were way way way way way less interesting than...
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Title house owner in 2000 Martin Lawrence comedy / MON 5-25-20 / Sugar-free...
Constructor: Andrea Carla Michaels and Victor BarocasRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (3:20) (the slight slowness is due primarily to the first themer, which I forgot existed, and to SPRITE...
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