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Themeless 2021

◆ · By Max Willens · Published 2021-12-29T17:15:28.711Z

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  • Mike D 🤓5:58 · 2021-12-29T19:05:23.278Z
    Nice smooth solve!
    • Aaron 🤓5:02 · 2021-12-29T21:56:07.641Z
      This felt super smooth and in the language which is great for a themeless. A couple clues didn't match tense (17A) but otherwise solid clueing. Looking forward to more.
      • Max Willens 🤓0s · 2022-01-02T19:07:32.861Z
        Thanks for the kind words (and for the catch of 17A)!
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      1A
      How the unprepared might be taken
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      Across
      1. 1A
        How the unprepared might be taken
      2. 6A
        Stopper
      3. 10A
        Baby's first word, often
      4. 14A
        Famed sewer Ross
      5. 15A
        Winter sport whose players go toes-first
      6. 16A
        Landed
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        Provided an event's food
      8. 18A
        Oral, e.g., or final
      9. 19A
        Criminal plea "____ contendere" (two words)
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        Missus, en español (abbr.)
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        IRS-created tool for socking money away
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        Descriptor for a summer night, or a bun
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        Philly signature dish
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        How one might cook clams, or a cake
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        With Carnegie, namesake of a famed Pittsburgh
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        Burning, a bit poetically
      17. 34A
        Spurs great Ginobili
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        Fuel
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        Yellow fruits
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        Fashion house run, at different times, by siblings
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        Sound of anguish
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        Chain rest.s offering pies topped with jerk chicken, pineapple, broccoli rabe
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        Spooky
      24. 47A
        How one might access a wrapped gift
      25. 50A
        Puts two and two together
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        Infamous reality TV site
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        Wine-colored red
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        Knickerbockers, on a scoreboard
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        Abolitionist preacher Turner
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        Hemingway nickname
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        Often the last story written about a person, informally
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        "Spider Man" director Sam
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        Iowa college town
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        Slangy shortening of a Michael Jackson-coined term of endearment
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        Casual term for a medical procedure that uses fluid to assess a pregnancy's health
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        Where one might put one's payment, abbr.
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        When looking west, behind you
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        Communicates manually
      Down
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        Building blocks, maybe
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        California's state animal
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        On offense
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        Council of Science Editors, for short
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        Anti-vax NBA star Irving
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        Polite interjection
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        Light to Augustus
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        SEC sch. whose mascot is a bulldog
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        Opal, garnet or sapphire
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        Craze
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        How one might describe a sure thing (indefinite article included)
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        It does a body good, they once said
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        What a glass, or a sharp object, or a family heirloom, is not (indefinite article included)
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        "Everybody Hurts" band
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        Employment status sought by professors
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        Zeus's better half
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        Type of tree sometimes associated with a direction
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        Russian, Bosnian or Croat
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        Rum-y baked good
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        Some ways away, somewhat poetically
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        Applause compels one's start
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        Dirt-y hobby
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        Opposite of base
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        Matches a bet
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        Where one might get The New York Times, or The AP
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        Boardwalk ball game
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        Singe, as a piece of meat
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        Cable channel carrying the Mets
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        "Ain't it," formally
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        Your, in days of yore
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        Gags
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        Delete
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        Southern seed pod vegetables
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        Accountants' titles
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        Teacher, often, in Tibet
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        Dictator Idi
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        Uncles, en español
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        Snake, or fashion accessory
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        Opposites of outs
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        Pal, en Provence
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