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Never-seen character on TV's "Mork & Mindy" / SAT 8-12-23 / Perfectly...
Constructor: Rachel Fabi and Christina IversonRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: none Word of the Day: CROMULENT (1A: Perfectly acceptable, humorously) — Cromulent first appeared in the February 18, 1996...
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Japanese board game also called Five in a Row / SUN 8-13-23 / Motivational...
Constructor: Manaal MohammedRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME:"Use Your Noodle:— pasta punsTheme answers:MEALS ON WHEELS (22A: Cookbook for rotelle lovers?)ELBOW GREASE (27A: Olive oil for a...
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Group of obsessive followers, as of a TV show / MON 8-14-23 / Exceed the...
Constructor: Simon Marotte and Trenton Lee StewartRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (Downs-Only)THEME: ONE AND DONE (62A: Never to be repeated ... or an apt pronouncement after following the...
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Crocheted hair extensions / TUE 8-15-23 / Eco-friendly alternative to tampons...
Constructor: Malaika HandaRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (*for a Tuesday*, mostly because of one answer)THEME: FEMALE LEAD (61A: Feature of "Alien,""Mulan" or "Clueless" ... or what the answer...
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Golf alternative in brief / WED 8-16-23 / Builder of the monument depicted in...
Constructor: Mangesh Ghogre and Brendan Emmett QuigleyRelative difficulty: Medium THEME: Taj Mahal— circled squares form an outline of the Taj Mahal and contain information about the Taj Mahal...
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Modern initialism for Black dialect / THU 8-17-23 / Rebuff in Rostov /...
Constructor: Erik AgardRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: SHORTENING (60A: Baking ingredient used multiple times in this puzzle?) — ordinary, familiar terms are clued as if they were different...
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First name in detective fiction / FRI 8-18-2023 / Your wurst side? / "Enigma...
Constructor: Kameron Austin CollinsRelative difficulty: Hard :( Probably 40mins in total?THEME: noneWord of the Day: ADAMS (Yolanda with four Grammys in gospel) — Yolanda Yvette Adams (born August 27,...
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Embellish something unnecessarily / SAT 8-19-2023 / Component of a Zoom call...
Constructor: David P. WilliamsRelative difficulty: ChallengingTHEME: None Word of the Day: MITOSIS (11D: Cell division) — In cell biology, mitosis (/maɪˈtoʊsɪs/) is a part of the cell cycle in which...
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Spanish Wine Classification / SUN 8-20-23 / Time to stop trying? / Brother of...
Constructor: Michael SchlossbergRelative difficulty: Easy (well under 10 minutes for me, which is pretty much my Sunday "Medium" threshold)THEME: Crunch Time — Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar is...
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Fruity breakfast biscuit / MON 8-21-23 / National park with the notorious...
Constructor: Jennifer NuttRelative difficulty: Harder side of Medium (from Downs-only perspective)THEME: Hearing the ocean — first words of theme answers are all homophones of various ocean phenomenon...
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Slushy summer drink portmanteau / TUE 8-22-23 / Vega's constellation / Sign...
Constructor: Jay SilvermanRelative difficulty: Challenging (for a Tuesday)THEME: SOUND CHECKS (55A: Royalties for any musician?) — puns where the familiar two-word phrases where the first word is a...
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Egg dish with a lemon turnover / WED 8-23-23 / Ones with chiseled jawlines...
Constructor: Michael LiebermanRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: Don't eat that! — theme answers are food items clued as if they have an ingredient they would never actually have—that "ingredient" is...
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Twitch streamer with a digital avatar say / THU 8-24-23 / Green booking /...
Constructor: Robin YuRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: ROLLING BLACKOUTS (34A: Temporary, controlled power shutdown ... or a hint to reading four of this puzzle's answers)— the word OUT is...
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Portmanteau in 2010s fandom / FRI 8-25-23 / Nickname that drops -an / Most...
Constructor: Rafael MusaRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: none Word of the Day: ELI Apple (32A: N.F.L. cornerback Apple) — Eli Apple (né Woodard, born August 9, 1995) is an American football...
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Ceremonial plates for the Eucharist / SAT 8-26-23 / Not online, to a texter /...
Constructor: Adrian JohnsonRelative difficulty: Easy THEME: none Word of the Day: PATTIE Boyd (30A: Model Boyd of London's "Swinging Sixties" era) — Patricia Anne Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an...
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Costa Ricans informally / SUN 8-27-23 / Rahm who won the 2023 Masters / The Y...
Constructor: Rich KatzRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME:"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" — theme clues must be interpreted as if their first syllable referred to a letter of the alphabet:Theme...
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Three Stooges snicker sound / MON 8-28-23 / Boba Fett's occupation in "Star...
Constructor: Brian CallahanRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: UNCOUPLES (64A: Disconnects ... or what's found in the answers to the four starred clues?) — each theme answer features a "couple" of words,...
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"Hello, sailor!" / TUES 8-29-23 / Key of Dvorák's "New World" Symphony /...
Hello, everyone! It’s Clare, back for the last Tuesday in August. Summer has flown by, and I’m rather excited for the weather to cool off (*crosses fingers*). I’m also excited for the U.S. Open and...
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Inuit skin boat / WED 8-30-23 / Hamlet's interrogative after "How now!" /...
Constructor: Alex Eaton-Salners Relative difficulty: Medium THEME: some story — Across clues are all fill-in-the-blanks where you just have to infer the missing word from context; taken together, all...
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1935 Hitchcock thriller, with "The" / THU 8-31-23 / 2009 fantasy rom-com...
Constructor: Freddie ChengRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME:"NO. CLUE" (47D: "Haven't the foggiest!" ... or, when the first two letters are put at the end, an essential part of seven answers in this...
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