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Video game character in a hit 2020 film / SUN 3-13-22 / Self-title rock album...
Constructor: Christina Iverson and Katie HaleRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME:"Body Language"— idioms containing body parts are represented literally (spatially) in the grid:Theme...
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Bygone TV host with a famous neighborhood / MON 3-14-22 / Neighbor on Full...
Constructor: Stephen HiltnerRelative difficulty: Medium (easy, but a couple of those themer names ... yikes)THEME: TV neighbors — "neighbors" on '90s TV shows, and then ... FRED ROGERS, of "Mr. Rogers'...
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Reason to get gussied up / TUES 3-15-22 / Vanquish, as a dragon / Game with...
Hello, everyone, it’s Clare (surprise!) filling in for Rex for today. I hope that everyone is having a good March, with the start of spring in less than a week! It randomly snowed in D.C. over the...
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"The Duck Variations" playwright / WED 3-16-2022 / Swiss author of "Elements...
Hey besties! Welcome back to Midweek with Malaika / Malaika MWednesday / Miercoles con Malaika. Rex is on vacation, so I'll be with y'all for the next few days. If you want to get into The Malaika...
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Pigeons on a platter / THURS 3-17-2022 / QB stat: Abbr. / Cry to end a pin
Hey besties, thanks for joining me for a second Malaika MWednesday! (If we can change the clocks twice a year, why not change the days of the week.) If you'd like to enter The Malaika Headspace, today...
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Filipino national hero ___ Rizal / FRI 3-18-2022 / De segunda ___...
Good morning, and thanks for joining me on the final Malaika MWednesday of the month! Before jumping in to the puzzle, I wanted to call out that the two constructors (+ Rachel Fabi, friend-of-the-blog)...
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Something often seen with trunks / SAT 3-19-2022 / It means "father of" in...
Constructor: Ryan McCartyRelative difficulty: medium, maybe medium-hard? idkTHEME: noneWord of the Day: SAM (___ Taylor-Johnson, director of "Fifty Shades of Grey") — Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson OBE...
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Word from the French for "high wood" / SUN 3-20-2022 / It lands on the White...
Constructor: Brad WiegmannRelative difficulty: medium (eight minutes here)THEME: Exs and Nos — a series of bad puns involving dating various people (also, why are all these clues needlessly gendered?...
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Rigorous email management system / MON 3-21-22 / Spearlike weapons of...
Constructor: John Ewbank and Jeff ChenRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: BACK-UP SINGER (52A: One helping in a band ... or what can be found in each set of circled letters?) — five-letter one-named...
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Oxymoronic stage name for the D.J. Norman Cook / TUE 3-22-22 / New York city...
Constructor: Adam WagnerRelative difficulty: Medium (a few proper nouns might've EDGED this UP to Medium-Challenging for some)THEME: MAGNET (69A: Object represented visually twice in this puzzle) —...
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Metonym for the US Congress / WED 3-23-22 / Place to play dodgeball,...
Constructor: Barbara LinRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: flips and flops of various kinds — all clues are [FLIP] (2), [FLOP] (2), or [FLIP-FLOP] (2); I don't know why, they just are:Theme...
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Sports star turned model Gabrielle / THU 3-24-22 / Strip of computer...
Constructor: Jess ShulmanRelative difficulty: Easy (for a rebus, very easy)THEME: RAISE THE [BAR] (58A: Heighten expectations, say ... or a hint to entering four answers in this puzzle) — for four...
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Pandora releases / FRI 3-25-22 / Adage first attributed to Virgil's "Eclogue...
Constructor: Evans ClinchyRelative difficulty: Easy THEME: none Word of the Day: Pandora (1D: Pandora releases (SINS)) — In Greek mythology, Pandora (Greek: Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶν, pān, i.e. "all"...
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Alpine folk dress / SAT 3-26-22 / Ostinato provider in Ravel's Bolero / Sight...
Constructor: Ashton Anderson and James MulhernRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: none Word of the Day: Charles ALSTON (38D: Charles ___, artist whose bust of M.L.K., Jr. was the first ) — Charles...
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1990s-2000s Volkswagen seven-seater / SUN 3-27-22 / Bellini opera that takes...
Constructor: August Lee-KovachRelative difficulty: Easy, mostlyTHEME: KHUFU — circled squares form a pyramid shape that spells out "THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA"; then there's a lot of trivia related to...
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Compartmented Japanese lunch / MON 3-28-22 / Classification for the barely...
Constructor: Leslie RogersRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (maybe the coded theme clues make it slightly harder than a typical Monday theme, but the rest of it felt easier than typical, actually)THEME:...
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Friend of Forman and Fez on That 70s Show / TUE 3-29-22 / Onetime movie...
Constructor: Jamey SmithRelative difficulty: Easy (easiest Tuesday puzzle I've done in a long time, easier than most Mondays)THEME: toponyms — specifically, toponyms that are also metonyms for...
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Hugo-winning Hothouse author Brian / WED 3-30-22 / Computer language that...
Constructor: Jack MurtaghRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: PUNS— famous people whose first or last names end in -N are clued as if their first or last names actually ended "-IN'" (that's...
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62A What "should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the...
Constructor: OLIVER ROEDERRelative difficulty: MEDIUMTHEME:MARGINALIA (letters are missing at the edges of the puzzle)Word of the Day: DRY MARTINI (62A What "should be made by filling a glass with gin,...
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First man, in Maori mythology / FRI 4-1-22 / Vegas machine with best odds /...
Constructor: Evan MahnkenRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: the puzzle wants to try some April Fools *%@! on you, enjoy — the "joke" is in the "Puzzle Notes": "This puzzle has four different solutions....
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