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1953 title role for John Wayne / TUE 10-18-22 / Starfish or sea urchin in a...
Constructor: Dan SchoenholzRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium ("Medium" due almost entirely to ECHINODERM)THEME: Abbrs. "hidden" inside phrases with which they are roughly synonymous — theme answers are...
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Game pieces in Othello and Connect Four / WED 10-19-22 / Looney Tunes bunny /...
Constructor: Ryan Patrick SmithRelative difficulty: Medium THEME: Tom Swifties — Theme answers are puns that follow a specific structure ... here, Wikipedia can explain this better than I ever...
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Cousin of a carp / THU 10-20-22 / Dance move named after a Harlem...
Constructor: Rebecca GoldsteinRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: BLACK SHEEP (31D: Familial outcast depicted three times in this puzzle) — three "black" squares contain names of different types of...
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Folded in French / FRI 10-21-22 / Sclera neighbor / Company that acquired...
Constructor: Rafael MusaRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: none Word of the Day: BOTTLE GREEN (5D: Dark hue named after a type of glassware) — Bottle green is a dark shade of green, similar to pine...
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Mobile relatives / SAT 10-22-22 / Duo who have to give up their foosball...
Constructor: Brooke Husic and Yacob YonasRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: none Word of the Day: STABILES (5D: Mobile relatives) — STABILE (n.): an abstract sculpture or construction similar in...
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White terrier informally / SUN 10-23-22 / Fourth man to walk on the moon /...
Constructor: Daniel Bodily and Jeff ChenRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME:"To Be Continued" — Theme answers are broken across what look like three successive Across entries—you have to read the clues to...
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Chilean American actor of The Mandalorian and Narcos / MON 10-24-22 /...
Constructor: Joe RodiniRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: SANS / SANS (1A: French for "without" / 70A: After 1-Across, what the first names at 20-, 36-, 43- and 57-Across all are?) — so ... I guess the...
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Wining and dining, say / TUES 10-25-22 / Inner ear? / Borden Dairy cow /...
Hello, everyone! It’s Clare, back for the last Tuesday of October, which has seriously flown by. I was solving this puzzle while watching the ManningCast on ESPN2, which was rather fun (if a little...
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Wretched hive of scum and villainy per Obi-Wan Kenobi / WED 10-26-22 / James...
Constructor: Simeon SeigelRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (a bit poky ... might be the oversizedness ...)THEME: ALL FOURS (38A: What you're on when you're crawling ... or a hint to parsing 18-,...
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Item of feline furniture / THU 10-27-22 / Direction for snowbirds / Complains...
Constructor: Barbara LinRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: one letter off ... — six Across answers must be read twice, i.e. they are actually two-part answers, with the second part being...
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Symbolic hand gesture in Hinduism / FRI 10-28-22 / Ecologist Leopold who...
Constructor: Will NedigerRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: none Word of the Day: MUDRA (16A: Symbolic hand gesture in Hinduism) — A mudra [...]; Sanskrit: मुद्रा, IAST: mudrā, "seal", "mark", or...
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C. Evans journalist who co-founded All-Negro Comics 1947 / SAT 10-29-22 /...
Constructor: Daniel OkulitchRelative difficulty: Medium (started Hard, got Easy)THEME: none Word of the Day: Queen ADELAIDE (5D: English queen who lent her name to a city of 1.3+ million in the British...
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Herbert Hoover's middle name / SUN 10-30-22 / Pulitzer Prize-winning W.W. II...
Constructor: Addison SnellRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: coded message — I guess this is supposed to have something to do with ALAN TURING (25A: English computer scientist who pioneered the breaking...
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Game of Thrones servant / MON 10-31-22 / Michelangelo sculpture whose name...
Constructor: Emily CarrollRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: GHOST WRITER (59A: Hired pen ... or, punnily, the author of 20-, 36- and 43-Across?) — I don't think I get it, but I'll try: the answers are...
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Dark European thrush / TUE 11-1-22 / Big name in water purification /...
Constructor: Bruce HaightRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (***for a Tuesday***)THEME: LINKING VERB (59A: Grammatical connector like "is" or "seem" ... or a connector found literally in 16-, 24-,...
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"___ Dere" (jazz classic about a toddler's many questions) / WED 11-2-22 /...
Constructor: Ethan Zou and Tomas SpiersRelative difficulty: ...easy?? (leisurely 9:17 while watching Iron Chef: America)THEME: BOX "ER" — There are twelve (!!) boxes in the grid with the letters "ER,"...
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Riddles in Buddhism / THU 11-3-22 / Nashville university attended by W.E.B....
Constructor: Chase Dittrich and Jeff ChenRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: ___ IN THE ___ — theme answers are familiar phrases that follow that pattern (except one of them just has "IN," no "THE"). The...
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Truffle hunting option / FRI 11-4-22 / Ceramic iron compound that's...
Constructor: Juliet CorlessRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: none Word of the Day: DPT (11A: Childhood vaccine combo) — diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (merriam-webster.com)• • •This is a very...
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Average American allusively / SAT 11-5-22 / Alternatives to baskets / Famous...
Constructor: John WestwigRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: none Word of the Day: THE CATCH (13A: Famous game-saving 1954 World Series play by Willie Mays) — The Catch was a baseball play made by New...
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Marbled savory snack from China / SUN 11-6-22 / Electronic toy with a blue...
Constructor: Michael LiebermanRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME:"Length-ening"— familiar phrases get two changes: the addition of "EN" and the changing of the spelling / meaning of the word that...
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