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Chucked forcefully in modern lingo / TUE 10-11-22 / French loaf baked in a...
Constructor: Ailee YoshidaRelative difficulty: Medium+ (on the tough side for a Tuesday)THEME: SUPERGIRL (62A: Kara Zor-El's identity in DC Comics ... or a punny hint to the answers to the starred...
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Classic Wilson Pickett cover / WED 10-12-22 / Top 10 funk hit from War with...
Constructor: Drew SchmennerRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: AUTOTUNE (60A: Modern music staple that's a punny description of 17-, 24-, 38- and 48-Across)— songs ("tunes") with cars ("autos") in their...
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Old music halls / THU 10-13-22 / Extended feature of "Hey Jude" and "Layla" /...
Constructor: Lewis RothleinRelative difficulty: ChallengingTHEME: SKIP TOWN (62A: Run off ... or how to make the answers to 17-, 21-, 34-, 44- and 53-Across fit their clues)— "skip" the name of a...
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Pile of texts? / FRI 10-14-22 / Nasdaq's home informally / Half-blood wizard...
Constructor: David SteinbergRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: none Word of the Day: YAW (39D: Turn in the air, say) — verb(of a moving ship or aircraft) twist or oscillate about a vertical...
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Father of Calypso / SAT 10-15-22 / Corp with red umbrella implied in its logo...
Constructor: John HawksleyRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (3/4 Medium, 1/4 Challenging)THEME: none Word of the Day: SCAN (6D: What classic sonnets do) — 3. analyze the meter of (a line of...
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Fatalistic sort in slang / SUN 10-15-22 / Actress who played Jessica in...
Constructor: Paolo PascoRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME:"Terminal Connections"— five different pairs of (Down) answers turn at right angles (one east, one west) and their ends...
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Response to a relatable meme in internet slang / MON 10-17-22 / Having a...
Constructor: Caryn L. RobbinsRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME:"I'M ALL EARS" (61A: "You have my full attention" ... or something 17-, 24-, 38- and 51-Across) — fictional characters with distinctive and /...
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1953 title role for John Wayne / TUE 10-18-22 / Starfish or sea urchin in a...
Constructor: Dan SchoenholzRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium ("Medium" due almost entirely to ECHINODERM)THEME: Abbrs. "hidden" inside phrases with which they are roughly synonymous — theme answers are...
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Game pieces in Othello and Connect Four / WED 10-19-22 / Looney Tunes bunny /...
Constructor: Ryan Patrick SmithRelative difficulty: Medium THEME: Tom Swifties — Theme answers are puns that follow a specific structure ... here, Wikipedia can explain this better than I ever...
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Cousin of a carp / THU 10-20-22 / Dance move named after a Harlem...
Constructor: Rebecca GoldsteinRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME: BLACK SHEEP (31D: Familial outcast depicted three times in this puzzle) — three "black" squares contain names of different types of...
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Folded in French / FRI 10-21-22 / Sclera neighbor / Company that acquired...
Constructor: Rafael MusaRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: none Word of the Day: BOTTLE GREEN (5D: Dark hue named after a type of glassware) — Bottle green is a dark shade of green, similar to pine...
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Mobile relatives / SAT 10-22-22 / Duo who have to give up their foosball...
Constructor: Brooke Husic and Yacob YonasRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: none Word of the Day: STABILES (5D: Mobile relatives) — STABILE (n.): an abstract sculpture or construction similar in...
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White terrier informally / SUN 10-23-22 / Fourth man to walk on the moon /...
Constructor: Daniel Bodily and Jeff ChenRelative difficulty: MediumTHEME:"To Be Continued" — Theme answers are broken across what look like three successive Across entries—you have to read the clues to...
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Chilean American actor of The Mandalorian and Narcos / MON 10-24-22 /...
Constructor: Joe RodiniRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: SANS / SANS (1A: French for "without" / 70A: After 1-Across, what the first names at 20-, 36-, 43- and 57-Across all are?) — so ... I guess the...
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Wining and dining, say / TUES 10-25-22 / Inner ear? / Borden Dairy cow /...
Hello, everyone! It’s Clare, back for the last Tuesday of October, which has seriously flown by. I was solving this puzzle while watching the ManningCast on ESPN2, which was rather fun (if a little...
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Wretched hive of scum and villainy per Obi-Wan Kenobi / WED 10-26-22 / James...
Constructor: Simeon SeigelRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (a bit poky ... might be the oversizedness ...)THEME: ALL FOURS (38A: What you're on when you're crawling ... or a hint to parsing 18-,...
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Item of feline furniture / THU 10-27-22 / Direction for snowbirds / Complains...
Constructor: Barbara LinRelative difficulty: Medium-ChallengingTHEME: one letter off ... — six Across answers must be read twice, i.e. they are actually two-part answers, with the second part being...
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Symbolic hand gesture in Hinduism / FRI 10-28-22 / Ecologist Leopold who...
Constructor: Will NedigerRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: none Word of the Day: MUDRA (16A: Symbolic hand gesture in Hinduism) — A mudra [...]; Sanskrit: मुद्रा, IAST: mudrā, "seal", "mark", or...
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C. Evans journalist who co-founded All-Negro Comics 1947 / SAT 10-29-22 /...
Constructor: Daniel OkulitchRelative difficulty: Medium (started Hard, got Easy)THEME: none Word of the Day: Queen ADELAIDE (5D: English queen who lent her name to a city of 1.3+ million in the British...
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Herbert Hoover's middle name / SUN 10-30-22 / Pulitzer Prize-winning W.W. II...
Constructor: Addison SnellRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: coded message — I guess this is supposed to have something to do with ALAN TURING (25A: English computer scientist who pioneered the breaking...
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