Mini 89 - Pizza Edition 🍕🍕🍕

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• kurtalert 🤓6:09 · 2024-06-20T14:25:55.822Z

  Quite a challenge! But pizza, easily the best food in the world, inspired me to keep pushing through.

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-06-20T15:46:51.863Z

    Thanks for solving!

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• Darth 🤓9:13 · 2024-06-20T16:08:12.122Z

  I liked it. Didn't need Google, so it worked for me. ;)

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-06-20T18:16:13.396Z

    Nicely done! Thanks for solving!

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• JeffsPuzzles 6:09 · 2024-06-20T17:06:30.017Z

  Definitely your toughest grid! Lots of savory fill, as always (not just because of the theme). I'm confused by 10A: I always thought the acronym was EMEIA, and middle India isn't something I'd seen before. Or is that what your wut meant?

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-06-20T18:17:58.525Z

    10A was completely inexcusable glue that defeated me. My "joke" (if one can call it that) is that the conventional acronym is EMEIA as you said, and my entry was not quite the same. Perhaps I should have just said "EMIEA" as the clue and given up!

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• Mama 🤓13:29 · 2024-06-20T17:40:57.079Z

  You’re totally wrong about 11A but totally right about 19D. 18D seems plausible, though, since I quite liked pepperoni and banana in Iceland of all places.

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-06-20T18:19:43.686Z

    That's (another) great thing about 4A — everyone can top theirs to their own taste! The issue with 18D (from what I read) is avoiding overly wet toppings — it seems like it works better with green, firm, drier 18D than the sweet, ripe, yellow ones we tend to demolish on their own. (And banana peppers I have heard of and enjoyed, but never bananas! How ripe were they?)

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• heron 3:40 · 2024-06-20T18:56:11.365Z

  some tricky fill here--needed a lot of help from google :P

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-06-20T23:30:23.929Z

    Totally fair. Thanks for sticking with it!

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• apopple 🤓11:26 · 2024-06-21T02:54:59.577Z

  I loved 22-down lol (along with the rest of the fill!)

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-06-21T04:41:14.117Z

    Thank you! And thanks for solving!

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• riotblob 🤓8:00 · 2024-06-26T08:21:37.239Z

  that 6D/25A intersection was a killer! as a non-american 6D was so mysterious to me

  I enjoyed the puzzle though -- and thanks for the anti-recommendation for downs-only mode! I really like the set of spanners you have here, very cool.

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-06-26T13:12:14.091Z

    Thank you for the kind words and the specific feedback! For what it’s worth I think 6D is not such common lingo for people in the USA either, even if the object itself is more familiar. Yet another case where I was beguiled by a tenuous theme connection & made it unduly difficult!

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    • riotblob 🤓8:00 · 2024-06-26T22:56:01.941Z

      oh interesting! well fwiw I thought it was a neat, interesting entry, just one I wasn't familiar with ^_^

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