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Offspring of Beauty / THU 4-30-15 / Paige of Broadway London's West End /...
Constructor: Herre SchouwerwouRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: Famous people (or, once, a fictional character) + other word (except in the case of HERR KERR, where the pattern's reversed...
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Orwellian drudge / FRI 5-1-15 / Big tech review site / Dunsinane disavowal /...
Constructor: David SteinbergRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: noneWord of the Day: Calvin PEETE (48D: Calvin of the P.G.A.) — Calvin Peete, whose life traced one of sport’s most triumphant arcs — a...
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Meteorite impact product / SAT 5-2-15 / Pretty in Pink heroine / Computer...
Constructor: Barry C. SilkRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: noneWord of the Day: TEKTITE (38D: Meteorite impact product) — nounGEOLOGYa small black glassy object, many of which are found...
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Locale of a 1984 industrial disaster / SUN 5-3-15 / Archetypal postwar suburb...
Constructor: Dan SchoenholzRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME:"Non-starters" — No "N" starters, i.e phrases starting with "N" have the "N" dropped, creating wackiness that goes on for days...
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Qatar's capital / MON 5-3-15 / Beethoven's Third / Bullet with a trail /...
Hey, guys, it's Annabel! Please wish me luck on APs this week. (Or, if there's anyone out there who wants to give me a crash course in BC Calculus...)Constructor: Zhouquin BurnikelRelative difficulty:...
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Japanese for finger pressure / SAT 4-11-15 / He struck Caesar like a cur /...
Constructor: Martin Ashwood-SmithRelative difficulty: Easy[You can see where I wrote "CARAN…, up top, in my bid to parse CAR ANTENNA (5D: One getting the show on the road?)… you can also see that I...
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Bygone Korean automaker / TUE 5-5-15 / Small house in Latin America / Shoes...
Constructor: Michael Blake and Andrea Carla MichaelsRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (**for a Tuesday**) (time: 4:08)THEME: ADDIE (69A: Girl's name that's a two-part hint to 1/20-, 27-, 45- and...
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Judeo-Spanish / WED 5-6-15 / Processed bauxite / Longtime General Hospital...
Constructor: Joe KrozelRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: SEASONS (35A: Noted quartet) — circled letters spell out seasons …Word of the Day: LADINO (44D: Judeo-Spanish) — nounnoun: Ladino;...
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European blackbird / THU 5-7-15 / Insect's resinous secretion / Rishi in...
Constructor: Tracy GrayRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: GOING GREEN (59A: Reducing one's carbon footprint … or a hint to this puzzle's theme)— the … prefix? … ECO is squished into tiny boxes seven...
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Instagram alternative / FRI 5-8-15 / 1960 Pirates World Series hero...
Constructor: Ian LivengoodRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: noneWord of the Day: HALITE (16A: Melter on winter sidewalks) — nounsodium chloride as a mineral, typically occurring as colorless cubic...
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First human character on Sesame Street / SAT 5-9-15 / First name among 1991...
Constructor: Kristian HouseRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: noneWord of the Day: AGENA (61A: It was boosted by Titan) —noun, Rocketry.1.a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine,...
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1935 poem with one word per line / SUN 5-10-15 / Comic impressionist David /...
Constructor: Jacob StulbergRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME:"Literary Circles" — "THE LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER" (3D: 1935 poem with one word per line … as spelled out by this puzzle's circled...
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Shooter video game franchise / MON 5-11-15 / Jersey Shore pal of JWoww /...
Constructor: Joe DiPietroRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: Mall of America / Wall of Sound / All of Me / etc.— theme answers follow the following pattern: "-ALL OF whatever"Theme answers:CALL OF DUTY...
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Pitch-selecting gesture / TUE 5-12-15 / House smaller than villa / eyes...
Constructor: Paul HunsbergerRelative difficulty: Medium (Normal Tuesday)THEME: ELASTIC BAND (56A: Office item suggested visually by this puzzle) — circled letters B, A, N, D get farther apart in each...
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Tourist island in Gulf of Naples / WED 5-13-15 / Marijuana psychoactive...
Constructor: Jeffrey WechslerRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: ORSON WELLES (61A: Noted director/actor born in May 1915) — his name is in the puzzle and then the names of some of his movies / roles /...
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Paintings outside mainstream per Jean Dubuffet / THU 5-14-15 / Noted Italian...
Constructor: Kameron Austin CollinsRelative difficulty: Medium (except I failed, but … if you aren't stupid like me, Medium)THEME: BURST OUT / LAUGHING (30A: With 37-Across, lose it … or what 12...
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Da Vinci Code priory / FRI 5-15-15 / 2000s James Cameron cyberpunk/sci-fi...
Constructor: David PhillipsRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: noneWord of the Day: Forever ALONE (5D: Forever ___ (Internet meme)) — [some crap I tried to look up but it was something...
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Bygone Finnish coin / SAT 5-16-15 / Rubylike gem / Children of American...
Constructor: Byron WaldenRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: noneWord of the Day: RED DIAPER BABIES (31A: Children of American Communists) — In their book Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left,...
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Late media journalist David / SUN 5-17-15 / Iconic figure in Warhol work /...
Constructor: Joe KrozelRelative difficulty: Very, very easyTHEME:"To-Do List (Abridged)"— theme answers are clued as to-do lists, wherein the terms overlap, i.e. the noun at the the end of the first...
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Albanian cash / FRI 4-24-15 / Gershwin musical whose name sounds like...
Constructor: Joe KrozelRelative difficulty: ChallengingTHEME: noneWord of the Day: Charley LAU (41A: Charley who caught Warren Spahn's 1961 no-hitter) — Charles Richard Lau (April 12, 1933, in Romulus,...
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