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◆ · By JeffsPuzzles · Published 2024-08-04T07:48:21.512Z

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  • kurtalert 🤓9:41 · 2024-08-04T17:48:29.921Z
    Nice! Got hung up on the cross between 10A and 12D - had a T there, and it actually kinda works for both clues- but mordant is better for the down.
    • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-08-05T00:59:53.705Z
      Thanks for solving. MORDANT is my least favorite bit of fill - kind of obscure, but the only way I could get that corner to work.
    • jaybee 14:30 · 2024-08-04T18:54:39.150Z
      Hey, just FYI, typo at 31 Across: "Bonnie Raitt or Steve Nicks, e.g." (Stevie)
      • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-08-05T00:58:26.855Z
        Whoops! I'll fix it, thanks for catching that. And thanks for solving!
      • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓4:46 · 2024-08-04T21:07:04.921Z
        Fun, thank you! So much good fill in this one, and the clues are a great mix too.
        • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-08-05T00:58:41.872Z
          Thanks, Sendhil!
        • Larry Edelstein 🤓7:15 · 2024-08-06T03:17:58.320Z
          Cleverly worded clues
          • Jessica 23:38 · 2024-09-03T14:35:25.461Z
            Good puzzle, thanks.
            Play today's daily mini crossword
            1A
            Privileged dude or underprivileged African country
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            Across
            1. 1A
              Privileged dude or underprivileged African country
            2. 5A
              Direction on Alice's cake
            3. 10A
              Pagan, but not Christian, follower
            4. 13A
              Ex-Cowboys QB turned football analyst
            5. 14A
              Like the plantains in maduros and tostones (or me after a Steve Mossberg Saturday Stumper)
            6. 15A
              Common ground between a church organ and a subway line
            7. 17A
              Words before "arms" or "your face"
            8. 18A
              "Triple D" host
            9. 19A
              Olympian queen
            10. 20A
              Many a sports bettor
            11. 22A
              Directions
            12. 24A
              Nickname for Homo floresiensis, the meter-tall hominins discovered on an Indonesian island (they hunted miniature elephants, I kid you not)
            13. 25A
              Tourist draws (like the Galapagos for nature lovers)
            14. 26A
              Chaiken of "The L Word" and "Empire"
            15. 27A
              Publish before peer review
            16. 29A
              Challenge
            17. 30A
              The "B" in BTDT
            18. 31A
              Bonnie Raitt or Stevie Nicks, e.g.
            19. 32A
              Ironically, neither "The Secret Life of Bees" nor "The Bee Movie" generated any
            20. 35A
              It might be raw or done
            21. 38A
              Maori rite
            22. 39A
              Octet for most spiders
            23. 42A
              They've come
            24. 44A
              Crib
            25. 45A
              One might help you park yourself
            26. 46A
              Pico de gallo pepper, often
            27. 48A
              Einstein, Camus, or McCartney's uncle
            28. 49A
              Rhetorical argument that's just so much chaff
            29. 50A
              Roulette couleur
            30. 51A
              Odds, e.g.
            31. 53A
              "The truth is like poetry - and most people I&%**# ___ poetry" ("The Big Short")
            32. 54A
              Pre-Columbian civilization that was brilliant at constructing earthquake-proof buildings, unlike the conquering Spaniards
            33. 55A
              Place whose residents might wonder if it's really worth the 2-hour daily commute to the city
            34. 56A
              Wild
            35. 57A
              ___ pal
            36. 58A
              Pick up
            37. 59A
              It's served in office and in prison (and sometimes both by the same person, one can hope)
            Down
            1. 1D
              Object of affection, or with an -ed at the end, how you might feel if they like someone else
            2. 2D
              "Roger, Peter, get moving!"
            3. 3D
              What a self-doubter might say when asked for a synonym for "friendly"
            4. 4D
              "It's just an expression, you know"
            5. 5D
              Pretentious
            6. 6D
              Many tunes for tenors
            7. 7D
              Like some shoes and scores
            8. 8D
              Sel de ___ (sea salt)
            9. 9D
              Undo home
            10. 10D
              "Can you believe that guy?!"
            11. 11D
              Design aid
            12. 12D
              Biting, as wit
            13. 16D
              Target, as a wide receiver
            14. 21D
              Heloise's tips
            15. 23D
              Set component
            16. 27D
              Free parking and espressos, e.g. (in the same or different ways)
            17. 28D
              The "Queen of Country"
            18. 30D
              Canaanite god of sheep, I mean fertility
            19. 33D
              Home of the 12th century Cathédrale Notre-Dame de ______, which still stands because a US pilot questioned orders to bomb it in World War II
            20. 34D
              ____ crossing (seen on the cover of "Abbey Road")
            21. 35D
              Bottled water brand that "suggests pureness and replenishment," according to Coca Cola
            22. 36D
              Anon equivalent
            23. 37D
              Bean many people consume regularly
            24. 40D
              Bean many people consume regularly
            25. 41D
              Member of "the world's greatest deliberative body" (competition must be mighty thin!)
            26. 43D
              What's to see in Spain
            27. 44D
              Oxygen-dependent organism (or, parsed differently, a dressing gown from American Eagle)
            28. 46D
              Tends to the risotto
            29. 47D
              Dist. light travels in .0000033 seconds (or I travel in 30 minutes on Rockville Pike on a weekend)
            30. 49D
              Phaser setting
            31. 52D
              Fire
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