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Feline friend of Tom on Tom and Jerry / FRI 4-14-23 / Once-trendy green...
Constructor: Billy Bratton and Clay HaddockRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: none Word of the Day: TUBI (32D: Free alternative to Netflix) — Tubi is an American over-the-top content...
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Millions of Ghanaians, ethnically / SAT 4-15-23 / Nickname for France's Louis...
Constructor: Kameron Austin CollinsRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: none Word of the Day: RHONDA Vincent (45D: ___ Vincent, bluegrass singer inducted into the Grand Ole Opry) — Rhonda Lea...
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Weakens in video game lingo / SUN 4-15-23 / 2020 movie lead-in to land /...
Constructor: Mike HobinRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME:"Bring Your 'A' Game"— familiar phrases containing words that start with "A" are clued wackily, as if the the "A" were a standalone word [or...
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Small houses in Spain / MON 4-17-23 / Chip Beauty and the Beast teacup /...
Constructor: Katherine Baicker and Scott EarlRelative difficulty: Normal? Easy side? I don't know ...THEME:"THERE ARE NO WORDS" (57A: "I can't even!" ... or a hint to the answers to the starred clues)...
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Hip-hop genre pioneered by Gucci Mane / TUE 4-18-23 / Showy basket / Dah's...
Constructor: Kiran PandeyRelative difficulty: somewhat harder than your typical Tuez puzzTHEME:"BREAK IT UP, YOU TWO!" (58A: Command that could be given to the title characters in 17-, 26- and...
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SNL alum Pedrad / WED 4-19-23 / Ikea founder Ingvar / 1990s hit with the line...
Constructor: Joe DeeneyRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: POET'S CORNER (47A: Westminster Abbey section hinted at by this puzzle's architecture)— two poets cross in every "corner" of the puzzle:Theme...
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Longtime Mazda catchphrase / THU 4-20-23 / Antique tools for pressing clothes...
Constructor: Simeon SeigelRelative difficulty: Medium (possibly slower than usual, but only from having to tilt my head to enter the damn themers, sideways and backwards)THEME: CLOCKWISE (63A: How this...
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Obsolescent two-in-one device / FRI 4-21-23 / Drink company with a wave in...
Constructor: Erica Hsiung Wojcik and Matthew StockRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: none Word of the Day: "R.U.R." (29D: 1920 play from which the word "robot" comes) — R.U.R. is a 1920 science-fiction...
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Dead letter in a mail sorter's vernacular / SAT 4-22-23 / Fruit-flavored...
Constructor: Byron WaldenRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: none Word of the Day: Ralph Nader (39D: One with an "If You Choose the Lesser of Two Evils—You Are Still Choosing Evil" bumper sticker,...
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Korean word for cooked rice / SUN 4-23-23 / TikTok persona typified by floppy...
Constructor: Katie Hale and Scott HoganRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME:"Punctuation Matters"— 3rd-person indicative verb phrases are turned into wacky phrases by imagining that the "S" at the end of...
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Humanoid robot who appears in all nine "Star Wars" episodes, informally / MON...
Constructor: Emily CarrollRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME:"WHAT'S POPPIN'?" (61A: Slangy question of greeting ... or a hint to 18-, 23-, 40- and 53-Across) — things that you pop:Theme answers:CORN...
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Like thin clouds / TUES 4-25-23 / Half of a 1960s folk quartet / Aardvark's...
Hello! It’s Clare, back for the last Tuesday in April. Hope everyone has had a lovely (and warm) April. The weather here in DC has been pretty great, and it’s meant getting to ride my bike in shorts...
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Noted Venetian marketplace / WED 4-26-23 / Nickname for Francisco often /...
Constructor: Aaron M. RosenbergRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME:VERTIGO (58A: 1958 film that is the subject of this puzzle) — shot-specific movie theme—all the movie-related answers are arranged in a...
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Netflix heroine Holmes / THU 4-27-23 / Some adult nightclub entertainers,...
Constructor: Michael SchlossbergRelative difficulty: Easy[on paper and on the app, the boxes involved in the theme answers are missing various edges; see below]THEME: TAKES THE EDGE OFF (37A:...
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Sitcom joke involving a change in setting / FRI 4-28-23 / Sexy selfie posted...
Constructor: Malaika Handa and Erik AgardRelative difficulty: ChallengingTHEME: none Word of the Day: TEMA (3D: Ghanaian city that's an anagram of 27-Down (TEAM)) — Tema is a city on the Bight of Benin...
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Voyage group / SAT 4-29-23 / Target for a certain mallet / Pro whose home...
Constructor: David SteinbergRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: none Word of the Day: PICKLEBALL (28D: Game with paddles) — Pickleball is an indoor or outdoor racket/paddle sport where two players...
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Insulating sleeve for a beverage / SUN 4-30-23 / 2020 film starring a cartoon...
Constructor: Lewis Rothlein and Jeff ChenRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME:"Name Dropping"— In order to make sense of six Downs at the bottom of the grid, you have to "drop" the "names" that have...
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Core-building exercise that starts on all fours / MON 5-1-23 /...
Constructor: Alina Abidi and Matthew StockRelative difficulty: No idea ... as a Downs-only solve: ChallengingTHEME: animal + gait — familiar phrases that follow the "animal" + "gait" pattern: Theme...
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British author known for his 1984 novel Money / TUE 5-2-23 / Final Oldsmobile...
Constructor: Aimee LucidoRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: JAMES BOND (37A: Character associated with the beverage "shaken" in this puzzle's circled letters) — letters in MARTINI are "shaken"...
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Stubborn Seuss character, with "the" / WED 5-3-2023 / Language in which...
Constructor: Samuel A. DonaldsonRelative difficulty: Hard!! 16:13THEME: OOPS I DID IT AGAIN — Phrases that already contain the word "it" have the letters IT inserted a second time, to wacky effectTheme...
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