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Coffeecake with cross-sectional swirls / MON 7-3-23 / Professionals who work...
Constructor: Sam BuchbinderRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME:"OFF TO A GOOD START" (38A: Having initial success ... as suggested by the beginnings of 17-, 24-, 47- and 60-Across) — first words...
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Sphere of expertise / TUES 7-4-23 / Letters before Q, sometimes / Movie...
Hi, everyone! It’s Clare for the first Tuesday of the month. (It would’ve been last Tuesday, but I was rather sick.) Anyway, happy Fourth of July!! I’ll be celebrating on the National Mall with a...
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House Beautiful subject / WED 07-05-23 / "Inside the N.B.A." personality /...
Constructor: Joe DeeneyRelative difficulty: Hard-ish? 15:29THEME: Language class!— Phrases that involve languages are clued cheekily using that languageTheme answers:Кукла as a clue for RUSSIAN...
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Request regarding the ball game / THU 7-6-23 / Designation for very minor...
Constructor: Alison PerchRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: TAKE ME OUT / MAKE MONEY (20A: Request regarding "the ball game" ... or instructions for answers the starred clues / 53A: Earn ... or what...
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Humorous nickname for a raccoon / FRI 7-7-23 / Ice in some product names /...
Constructor: Adrian JohnsonRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: none Word of the Day: EID MUBARAK (59A: Festive Islamic greeting) — Eid Mubarak (Arabic: عِيد مُبَارَك ʿīd mubārak) is an Arabic term...
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Betting emotionally, in poker slang / SAT 7-8-23 / Video game hurdle /...
Constructor: Brandon KoppyRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: none Word of the Day: BOSS (51A: Video game hurdle) — In video games, a boss is a significant computer-controlled opponent. A fight with...
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Entwined / SUN 7-9-23 / Musical set in Buenos Aires / Ben Jonson love poem of...
Constructor: Christina IversonRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: A Thousand Words — Theme answers contain synonyms for "image" and are clued using images.Word of the Day: WACO (City that calls itself "The...
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Become absurdly outlandish as a TV show / MON 7-10-23 / Expressions of...
Constructor: Brad WiegmannRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (solved Downs-only)THEME: verb the animal— theme answers are all colloquial phrases that follow a "[verb] THE [animal]" pattern:Theme...
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1994 film about a portal through the cosmos / TUE 7-11-23 / One attempting to...
Constructor: Aaron M. RosenbergRelative difficulty: Challenging (**for a Tuesday**)THEME: searching for magazines in a digital world... — familiar phrases are clued as if they are responses (from an...
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Spiky fruits with a noxious odor / WED 7-12-23 / Subject of the 2008...
Constructor: Brooke Husic and Brian ThomasRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: Days of the week — days of the week are represented by their three-letter abbrs., which appear, in order, at the...
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1995 Coolio song featured in the film "Dangerous Minds" / THU 7-13-23 /...
Constructor: Hanh HuynhRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: PARA- to "Pair of" — words that start with "PARA-" are clued straight but represented in the grid as a visual pun, where the latter part of the...
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Poet Hemphill of the 1980s Black gay cultural renaissance / FRI 7-14-23 /...
Constructor: Jonathan KaufmanRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: none Word of the Day: ESSEX Hemphill (25A: Poet Hemphill of the 1980s Black gay cultural renaissance) — Essex Hemphill (April...
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Tourist town NE of Snowbird / SAT 7-15-23 / Crayon alternative / Plant genus...
Constructor: Jeff ChenRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: None Word of the Day: EARL Boykins (50D: ___ Boykins, longtime N.B.A. player who stood at only 5'5") — Earl Antoine Boykins (born June 2, 1976) is...
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Johnnycake grain / SUN 7-16-23 / Certain tree-hugger / D.C. lobbying group...
Constructor: Michael SchlossbergRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME:"The Game Is Afoot" — shoe puns: clues appear (sort of) to be about shoes, but then they ... aren't:Theme answers:BEAVIS AND...
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Regional flora and fauna / MON 7-17-23 / Suárez, tennis star with eight Grand...
Constructor: Alexander LiebeskindRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (total guess)THEME:"ARE YOU OKAY?" (58A: Query of concern ... or a phonetic hint to two pairs of letters appearing in 17-, 24-, 37- and...
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Rhyming destinations for yummies / TUE 7-18-23 / Harvest goddess with a...
Constructor: Karen and Paul SteinbergRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: GRECO-ROMAN (36A: Kind of wrestling ... or a hint to four pairs of crossing answers in this puzzle) — Greek gods cross their Roman...
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One getting pwned often / WED 7-19-23 / Dynamite hitmakers 2020 / Stringed...
Constructor: Billy BrattonRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME:Figure it out!— Themers are familiar colloquial expressions that take the form of imperatives (commands) with "it" in them; answers are the...
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Technological breakthrough first seen on "Jeopardy!" in 2011 / THU 7-20-23 /...
Constructor: Drew SchmennerRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: SLEEPING CAR (59A: Accommodation for a long train trip ... or a hint to entering a certain letter 14 times in this puzzle)—...
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Defeater of Jörmungandr / FRI 7-21-23 / Boundary for first and goal plays /...
Constructor: Robyn WeintraubRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: none Word of the Day: Big SUR (22A: Big part of California?) — Big Sur (/ˈsɜːr/) is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of...
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Chicken soup and eucalyptus oil, for two / SAT 7-22-2023 / Long shot in...
Constructor: Robert LoganRelative difficulty: Hard(Showing you the grid in my handwriting, eraser marks and all!)THEME: NoneWord of the Day: LIAR'S DICE (9D: Game with rolling and bluffing) — Liar's...
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