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Brickowski protagonist of Lego Movie / WED 8-15-18 / Muscles used in Russian...
Constructor: Kathy WienbergRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (5:05)THEME: anagrams — answers are essentially cryptic crossword clues where one word is taken to mean "mix the other word up"Theme...
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King of Belgium during W.W. II / THU 8-16-18 / Engineering discipline for...
Constructor: Alan ArbesfeldRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (or harder, if you're not familiar with the subject's body of work) (4:49)THEME: ROBERT / DENIRO (64A: With 65-Across, subject of this...
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Merrill in movies / FRI 8-17-18 / Mill owner in California gold rush /...
Constructor: Jeff ChenRelative difficulty: Medium (shading toward Easy-Medium for me) (5:30)THEME: noneWord of the Day: HARLAN Stone (43D: Former Supreme Court justic Stone) — Harlan Fiske Stone...
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Lead female role in "Singin' in the Rain" / SAT 8/18/18 / TV host who won a...
Constructor: Mark DiehlRelative difficulty: Medium (10:41 - the app says my average is 13-something, but it's probably right about 10-11)THEME: ThemelessWord of the Day: SKIPJACKS (1A: Certain fish ......
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Operatic baritone Pasquale / SUN 8/19/18 / Humphries of the N.B.A. / Peak NW...
Constructor: Jacob StulbergRelative difficulty: Medium (Medium-easy except for the NE and SW; 19:51, which is probably a hair above my Sunday average these days)THEME:PASSIVE RESISTANCE — The...
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Desert beast / MON 8-20-18 / Brand that "nobody doesn't like" / Person not...
Constructor: Peter GordonRelative difficulty: EasyTHEME: Meat entrees — Each theme answer is a different meat dish named after a cityTheme Answers: CHICKEN KIEV (17A: Meat entree in Ukraine)VIENNA...
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Queen Gertrude's alas in Hamlet / TUE 8-21-18 / South Asian mixed rice dish /...
Constructor: John Lieb and Andrea YañesRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging to Challenging (3:48) (my third-slowest Tuesday of the past four months)THEME: DARWIN (69A: Evolution theorist ... or what...
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Pharaoh honored near Aswan / WED 8-22-18 / Apple application that's now...
Constructor: John LampkinRelative difficulty: Medium (4:20)THEME: MB—>MP —wacky letter-change stuffTheme answers:READY TO RUMPLE (20A: "You think the blanket needs messing up?")RULE OF THUMP (36A:...
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First wife of Pablo Picasso / THU 8-23-18 / Third base in baseball lingo /...
Constructor: Kyle DolanRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (6:57)THEME: CROP ROTATION (50A: Common farming technique ... or a hint to solving this puzzle) — rebus puzzle where "crops" are found in...
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1978 Grammy nominee Chris / FRI 8-24-18 / College town east of Greensboro /...
Constructor: Roland HugetRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (6:58)THEME: noneWord of the Day: ERLE C. Kenton (48D: Director ___ C. Kenton) — Erle C. Kenton (August 1, 1896 – January 28, 1980) was...
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First chairman of EEOC familiarly / SAT 8-25-18 / Lamb by another name / Yoko...
Constructor: Sam EzerskyRelative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (for me—I solved upon waking, Always a bad idea on Saturday) (I had friends find this one very easy; seems likely there's a wide...
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1836 siege setting / SUN 8-26-18 / Standard info on stationery nowadays /...
Constructor: Olivia Mitra FramkeRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (9:50)THEME:"To The Point"— a puzzle about THE US OPEN Tennis Championship (59A: Annual sporting event that is this puzzle's theme)Theme...
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Early Indus Valley inhabitant / MON 8-27-18 / Leveling wedge
Constructor: Susan GelfandRelative difficulty: Easy-Medium (2:58)THEME: two first names of people in same profession make complete name of someone else in the same profession... —Theme answers:KIRK...
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Indian flatbread / TUE 8-28-18 / Vittles / Be in a dither / Hockey feints
Happy Tuesday, everyone! It's Clare again for the last Tuesday of the month as August comes to a close (summer, too, unfortunately). I'm currently in DC suffering in hot and humid weather while trying...
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Voldemort, to Harry Potter / WED 8-29-18 / Rough spots for teens? / Grp....
Constructor: Alex BajczRelative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: City work— Each theme answer is a city name preceded by a "profession" which is an anagram of the city nameTheme answers:DIAGNOSES SAN...
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Philosophy of Simplicity / THU 8-30-18 / Home of the oldest university in the...
Constructor:Grant ThackrayRelative difficulty:Easy-MediumTHEME: ADBLOCK (64A: Popular browser extension... or a literal description of four black squares in this puzzle) — Puzzle where four BLOCKs...
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1994 Denis Leary comedy / FRI 8-31-18 / White Buildings was his first...
Constructor: Peter WentzRelative difficulty: Medium (5:36)THEME: noneWord of the Day: "THE REF" (55A: 1994 Denis Leary comedy) — The Ref (Hostile Hostages in some countries) is a 1994 American black...
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Mean Miss of Wizard of Oz / SAT 9-1-18 / Overhyped event in slang / Smallest...
Constructor: Randolph RossRelative difficulty: Medium-ish (8:18)THEME: noneWord of the Day: William P. BARR (30D: Attorney general before Reno) — William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American...
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Protein shell of virus / SUN 9-2-18 / Showdown in classic video games /...
Constructor: Tom McCoyRelative difficulty: Medium (10:50)THEME:"Going Head to Head"— famous antagonists are written out "head to head" (i.e. with first name backward, so its first letter touches first...
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Hawaii's Mauna ___ / MON 9-3-18 / Roman god of love / Notice when getting...
It's the first Annabel Monday that I'm writing as a SENIOR in college! What is even up with that.Constructor: Trent H. EvansRelative difficulty: HardTHEME: Couch to 5K — Theme answers are two word...
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