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Swahili sir / TUE 10-13-20 / Resource from bog / Bygone days old-style /...
Constructor: Amanda RafkinRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (3:29)THEME: WIN-WIN SITUATION (57A: Circumstance that's good for everyone ... with a hint to 17-, 25- and 44-Across) — themers have the...
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Potent strain of marijuana / WED 10-14-20 / Soap that comes in blue-green...
Constructor: Rich ProulxRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (~5 min.)THEME: hand jive — the meanings of hand gestured, clued using ordinal numbers to describe what the various DIGITs do in each...
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Instrument played using circular breathing / THU 10-15-20 / Language that...
Constructor: Lindsey HobbsRelative difficulty: Medium (high 5s)THEME: DOWN UNDER (55A: Nickname for 18-Across, and a hint to how four answers in this puzzle are to be entered) — themers are all...
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Showboaty home run celebrations / FRI 10-16-20 / Latin Lo / Belligerent in...
Constructor: Damon GulczynskiRelative difficulty: Medium (5:56)THEME: none Word of the Day: JENA Malone (53D: Actress Malone of the "Hunger Games" films) — Jena Malone is an American actress who has...
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French dessert of fruit encased in sweet batter / SAT 10-17-20 / Pattern of...
Constructor: Victor Barocas and Brad WilberRelative difficulty: Medium (6:40)THEME: QUINCUNX / PLUS SIGN (1A: Pattern of five shapes arranged like this puzzle's central black squares / 62A: One of five...
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Share a workspace in modern lingo / SUN 10-18-20 / Titular film character...
Constructor: Miriam EstrinRelative difficulty: Medium (10:17)THEME:"Title Basin"— book titles made wacky by changing last word in the title into a homophone of the original word:Theme answers:"LIFE OF...
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Portrait painter Rembrandt / MON 10-19-20 / Catkin-producing tree /...
Constructor: Fred PiscopRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (2:47)THEME:"... in the comics"— clues refer to visual representations of (mostly) invisible phenomena "in the comics":Theme answers:STORM CLOUD...
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Guitarist Joe with 15 Grammy nominations / TUE 10-20-20 / Autonomous cleaner...
Constructor: Jeff ChenRelative difficulty: Medium (skewing slightly harder than normal?) (3:45)THEME: BACKORDERED (38A: Like goods that are temporarily out of stock ... or a hint, alphabetically, to...
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American pop-rock band composed of three sisters / WED 10-21-20 / Brew with...
Constructor: Dory MintzRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (high 4s)THEME: city puns— familiar phrases where first word is swapped out for a homophone that is also the name of a city; clues are...
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Founder of the Sikh religion / THU 10-22-20 / Woos outside one's league so to...
Constructor: Sid SivakumarRelative difficulty: Challenging THEME: RUNS ON EMPTY (61A: Keeps going despite fatigue ... or a hint to three features of this puzzle)— letter string "RUN"...
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Highland slope / FRI 10-23-20 / Pieces of pomegranate / Former Bulgarian...
Constructor: Robyn WeintraubRelative difficulty: Medium (slow, for me, for a R.W. puzzle, but still right around 6)THEME: none Word of the Day: CPI (35A: Cost-of-living fig.)— A consumer price index...
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New Hampshire's Gate City / SAT 10-24-20 / Engage in rodomontade / HAL's...
Constructor: Byron WaldenRelative difficulty: Medium (8:08, first thing in the morning) (felt way faster, ??)THEME: none Word of the Day: Sazerac (21A: Sazerac cocktail ingredient => RYE) — The...
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Scarecrow portrayer / SUN 10-25-20 / Citrus fruit with portmanteau name...
Constructor: Peter A. CollinsRelative difficulty: Challenging (north of 13 minutes???)THEME:"At the Halloween play ..." — I don't even know ... themers are completions of sentences that are allegedly...
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Hombre-to-be perhaps / MON 10-26-20 / Yellow flowers in primrose family /...
Constructor: Eric BornsteinRelative difficulty: Medium (2:59)THEME:"GET CRACKING!" (62A: Apt command to an 18-, 28- or 47-Across) — all the themers are occupations in which cracking (in one form or...
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Link letters / TUES 10-27-20 / Candy heart sentiment / Hershey's foiled...
Hi, all!Hope everyone has been doing well and staying healthy, as we seem to be getting a third (fourth? fifth?) wave of COVID right now. I've been just staying cooped up in my apartment still, dealing...
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Palindromist Jon of Sit on a potato pan Otis / WED 10-28-20 / Whispered name...
Constructor: Peter GordonRelative difficulty: Challenging (like, hilariously off-the-mark for a Wednesday ... high 5s, i.e. my average Friday time) (it is oversized, but still, yikes)THEME: a quote...
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Serfs of olden days / THU 10-29-20 / Large urban area in Normandy France /...
Constructor: Kurt WellerRelative difficulty: Medium (6-ish, first thing in the morning)THEME: NOT NOW (71A: "I'm busy!" ... or, if read in four pieces, an aid in solving several clues here) — several...
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10-year-old boy of comics with glasses and blond hair / FRI 10-30-20 / Two...
Constructor: Trenton CharlsonRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (half-asleep, still finished just under 6)THEME: THEME— DESCRIPTIONWord of the Day: WORD (CLUE) — DEFINITION• • •Happy Halloween Eve. I...
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Cheese from Wales not southeastern Pennsylvania / SAT 10-31-20 / Disney...
Constructor: Stella ZawistowskiRelative difficulty: Medium (wireless keyboard stopped working mid-solve, so I didn't get a precise time, but I'd say 7-8 minutes? maybe? it's early, forgive me...
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Number cruncher in Wall Street lingo / SUN 11-1-20 / Bolshoi debut of 1877 /...
Constructor: Julian LimRelative difficulty: Medium (11-ish)THEME: "West-Southwest"— W's are (mostly) turned into SW's creating wackiness clued wackily forever and ever ad infinitum dear lord make it...
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