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Dweller on the Musandam Peninsula / SAT 3-25-23 / Traffic sign near a...
Constructor: Robyn WeintraubRelative difficulty: Easy THEME: none Word of the Day: jughandle (26D: Traffic sign near a jughandle, maybe => NO LEFT TURN) — A jughandle is a type of ramp or slip road...
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Gen Zer who might be into faux freckles and anime / SUN 3-26-23 / Nickname...
Constructor: David KarpRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME:"I Do, I Do ... Do!" — familiar phrases with three "I"s have the third "I" removed, creating wacky phrases, all of it tied together by oldies band...
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Brazilian actress Sonia / MON 3-27-23 / Stark daughter on Game of Thrones /...
Constructor: Simon Marotte and Trenton Lee StewartRelative difficulty: Easy? Sure, easyTHEME: A completely implausible game of 20 Questions where all the answers are bands whose names follow the...
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Many a Marvel character / TUES 3-28-23 / Wyatt of the Wild West / Beverages...
Hello, everyone! It’s Clare, back for the last Tuesday of March. Hope everyone is having a good start to your spring. I saw the cherry blossoms here in DC yesterday, and they were stunning — the sky...
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Prelude to bandwidth throttling / WED 3-29-23 / Ernst who studied sonic booms...
Constructor: Ben ZoonRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: anagrams— I dunno, I think that's it: four answers that are all anagrams of one another?Theme answers:DOOR LATCHES (17A: Fasteners near hasps...
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Hockey goalie's domain / THU 3-30-23 / Two-stringed Chinese instrument /...
Constructor: Adam Wagner and Brooke HusicRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: Double duty— familiar compound words & two-word phrases are clued "___ / ___," with the blank being a...
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Sister brand of Mazola / FRI 3-31-23 / Diacritic over the 'r' in Dvorak /...
Constructor: Rich NorrisRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: none Word of the Day: PART SONGS (9D: Blended numbers) — Strictly any song written for several vocal parts, but in practice, a...
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Experience of feeling unfamiliar with something that's actually quite...
Constructor: Wyna Liu and Joel FaglianoRelative difficulty: ChallengingTHEME: ABC (22A: Airer of "Batman" on 1960s TV) — all answers are made out A, B, C, and all the other letters of the alphabet ......
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Booze it up, old-style / SUN 4-2-23 / Dance accompanied by pahu drums / Flag...
Constructor: Jeremy Newton and Tracy GrayRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME:"Artistic Differences"— famous works of art have one letter that is both wrong *and* correct (you have to put both...
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Here's a quick summary in internet-speak / MON 4-3-23 / Fictional Looney...
Constructor: David DistenfeldRelative difficulty: Easy-ishTHEME: vowel progression— from SACS to SUCKS through all the other vowels:Theme answers:HONEY SACS (17A: Bee storage centers) (glad I solved...
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French city near Grenoble / TUE 4-4-23 / 1988 rom-com set in a New England...
Constructor: Andrea Carla Michaels and Christina IversonRelative difficulty: the easiest NYTXW puzzle I have ever doneTHEME: "DELIVERANCE" (63A: 1972 thriller set in the backwoods of Georgia ... or a...
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Faline's sweetheart in a Disney classic / WED 4-5-23 / Texter's hold that...
Constructor: Brandon KoppyRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: OVERSHARING (59A: Revealing an inappropriate amount of personal detail, as depicted three times in this puzzle) — the letters TMI are...
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Something to get down from / THU 4-6-23 / Black: It. / "Sim," in Brazil
Constructor: Sam ButtreyRelative difficulty: Hard! (25:25, had to "check puzzle" once)THEME: TRADING PLACES— Famous duos are clued as though they are words, and their clues are switchedTheme...
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Predecessor of a copter / FRI 4-7-23 / Whack biblically / City known as the...
Constructor: Lindsey HobbsRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: none Word of the Day: PAPILLA (17D: It's on the tip of your tongue) — : a small projecting body part similar to a nipple in...
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Metaphor for one's personal perspective / SAT 4-8-23 / 2019 chart-topper for...
Constructor: Sid SivakumarRelative difficulty: ChallengingTHEME: none Word of the Day: Masago (6A: Source of masago, in Japanese cuisine => SMELT) — Masago is the roe of capelin, a fish in the smelt...
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Spotted nocturnal mammal / SUN 4-9-23 / Pants, slangily / Do some maintenance...
Constructor: John EwbankRelative difficulty: EasyishTHEME:"If the Clue Fits ..."— [deep sigh] OK, so, themers are first halves of sayings that are so familiar you only need to say the first half of the...
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May that happen in Shakespeare / MON 4-10-23 / Snarled-up mess of debris /...
Constructor: Gia BoskoRelative difficulty: Easy (the easiest puzzle I've ever done ... which I know I said about last Tuesday's puzzle, but hear me out ...)THEME: "redundantly" — familiar phrases...
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Color-matching puzzle game with billions of downloads / TUE 4-11-23 /...
Constructor: Taylor Johnson and Jeff ChenRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: GO COAST TO COAST (54A: Travel cross-country ... or a description of what 16-, 23- and 43-Across do?) — the theme answers both...
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Wetsuit vis-a-vis a team triathlon / WED 4-12-23 / 1971 documentary about...
Constructor: Olivia Mitra Framke and Brooke HusicRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: PLUS and ALSO?— wacky 15-letter phrases composed of a first word PLUS an anagram of that word and ALSO another...
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Sci-fi cult classic of 1974 / THU 4-13-23 / Romantic music genre originating...
Constructor: Robin YuRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging? Hard then Easyish? Somewhere in there...THEME: TOO LITTLE TOO LATE (65A: Not enough, and without the urgency, to make a difference ... or a...
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