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Uh Sorta Mixed Up

◆ · By LarsCaine · Published 2024-07-28T22:06:58.259Z

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The answer is a famous 19th century author
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  • Darth 11:01 · 2024-07-29T03:58:13.116Z
    Love the title! I had two missing letters, but I found OL?VE? TWIST, so enough to solve it. ;) Will look closer to see if I can find the missing ones. Maybe Rintels (Jonathan Rintels)? I found Irving, but can't find another "I"-author. Thanks, Lars.
    • LarsCaine constructor · 2024-07-29T12:51:23.955Z
      Yeah, the other "I" is more well known as a playwright than a book author. The "R" doesn't fit the pattern of the rest of them as it doesn't start this person's last name. I wasn't happy about that but went with it anyway. 😒 The solution is below if you get too frustrated.
    • LarsCaine constructor · 2024-07-29T10:04:58.459Z
      Reveal: The title “Uh Sorta Mixed Up” anagrams to Authors Mixed Up. There are 11 “mixed up” authors in the grid: 1A SILENTR anagrams to RLSTINE, 8A VIRGIN = IRVING, 19A WIELD = WILDE, 21A LIETO = ELIOT, 24A LIKENTO = TOLKIEN, 35A SOONCEI = IONESCO, 42A HELLYES = SHELLEY, 49A NEVER = VERNE, 52A WILES = LEWIS, 62A WEROLL = ORWELL, 63A LOSTTOY = TOLSTOY.The first letters of the unmixed authors anagram to Oliver Twist which was written by Dickens
      • kurtalert 1s · 2024-07-30T01:00:29.873Z
        Phew. I stared at RIWETSVLOT for most of the day. I had an inkling that SO ONCE I would be something, but I couldn’t get anything from that. It took forever for me to abandon finding an author in my mixed up letters; I finally saw OLIVER TWST in there and figured I’d missed the I. Man. This was a good one.
        Most frustrating was that the first 7 authors/letters that I found were actually TS ELIOT. I was like… NFW did I get this a totally legit way, but it’s not right? WTF!
        • LarsCaine constructor · 2024-07-30T02:22:14.396Z
          Thanks Kurt! I actually got the idea from seeing TS ELIOT in another puzzle and realizing that it anagrammed to TOILETS. Didn't wind up using it though.
        Play today's daily mini crossword
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          "Dossier" has one
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          Extra-___ olive oil
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          Stet
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          Guadalajara goodbyes
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          Military troop groups
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          Actress Jurnee ___ of HBO's "Lovecraft Country" (Jussie's sister)
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          Brandish
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          Sheriff's asst.
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          Be dishonest with
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          Black gold
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          TV handyman Bob
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          Compare with
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          X'es out
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          '60s music invasion country
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          Poetic sphere
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          Irish whiskey brand
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          Part of a poem on a tombstone: As you are now, __ ____ was _.
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          Mao ___-tung
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          Devotee
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          2005 Beck song (I would have gotten my mouth washed out with soap if I had said this when I was a kid)
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          They owe
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          "Whoever you ___ love you" (Burt Bacharach lyric)
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          Massachusetts cape
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          "When pigs fly!"
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          Rapper Lil ___ X
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          Bits of cunning
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          Accessory with a magnetic strip on a kitchen wall to hold your cutlery
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          Money, in Mexico
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          Bygone GMC pickups
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          Audit, as a college course
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          "How __ ____", song by Chris Brown and Ciara
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          What a child might cry over
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          "Deck the Halls" contraction
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          Someone who might be found in the O.R.
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          Improvise, in jazz
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          Bachelor's last words
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          Small stream
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          Become available to the general public, as a new website
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          Reply to "Look at that!"
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          Annoy
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          Greek porticos
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          Salt: Fr.
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          President after JFK
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          Author Levin
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          Nice summer
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          Seat whose sitters sit back-to-back
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          Wore down
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          Drop the ___ (confess deep affection)
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          It's picked by the picky
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          ___-Magnon
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          Always, poetically
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          Audit org.
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          Voice of Woody in "Toy Story"
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          Heretofore
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          Adam of Maroon 5
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          Help by committing perjury
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          Wheels
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          San ___ (Riviera resort)
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          Pele's org., once
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          Mental faculties
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          "What's ___ for me?"
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          Pre-Easter period
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          Switch suffix
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          PlayStation maker
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          Amt. still owed
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          Italian god
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