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Mini 89 - Pizza Edition 🍕🍕🍕

◆◆ · By Sendhil Revuluri · Published 2024-06-20T12:11:35.362Z

Constructor's Note
A few rough entries in here so downs-only solving is not recommended and Googling is encouraged. Better cluing angles and feedback appreciated. Enjoy! Photo by Nik Owens on Unsplash.
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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.
    • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-06-20T15:46:51.863Z
      Thanks for solving!
    • Darth 🤓9:13 · 2024-06-20T16:08:12.122Z
      I liked it. Didn't need Google, so it worked for me. ;)
      • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-06-20T18:16:13.396Z
        Nicely done! Thanks for solving!
      • 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?
        • 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!
        • 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.
          • 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?)
          • heron 3:40 · 2024-06-20T18:56:11.365Z
            some tricky fill here--needed a lot of help from google :P
            • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-06-20T23:30:23.929Z
              Totally fair. Thanks for sticking with it!
            • apopple 🤓11:26 · 2024-06-21T02:54:59.577Z
              I loved 22-down lol (along with the rest of the fill!)
              • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-06-21T04:41:14.117Z
                Thank you! And thanks for solving!
              • 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.
                • 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!
                  • 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 ^_^
                1A
                Watch chain
                1
                2
                3
                4
                5
                6
                7
                8
                9
                10
                11
                12
                13
                14
                15
                16
                17
                18
                19
                20
                21
                22
                23
                24
                25
                26
                27
                28
                29
                30
                31
                Across
                1. 1A
                  Watch chain
                2. 4A
                  Delicious dish
                3. 9A
                  Composer Thomas or Education Secretary Duncan
                4. 10A
                  Regional acronym for Europe, the Middle India, East, and Africa (wut)
                5. 11A
                  Delicious (and healthy) (and mild) topping for a 4A
                6. 13A
                  "No worries, bruh"
                7. 14A
                  In favor of
                8. 15A
                  Yankee first baseman Lou named seven times an All-Star
                9. 16A
                  Extended family
                10. 17A
                  Understood
                11. 18A
                  When doubled, a Prada clothing line
                12. 19A
                  Piece of cake
                13. 21A
                  🐀🐀🐀🚫 (sorry)
                14. 24A
                  Paddle
                15. 25A
                  Arabic for Smurf
                16. 26A
                  Eating quickly, like you might do with a 4A
                17. 28A
                  Gives off
                18. 29A
                  "Why do the French have only one egg for breakfast? Because one egg is an ____" (old joke)
                19. 30A
                  Actress Christina of Mermaids, The Addams Family, and 200 Cigarettes
                20. 31A
                  Camera type, for short
                Down
                1. 1D
                  Delicious (and healthy) (and pungent) topping for a 4A
                2. 2D
                  Undiversified, as a farm
                3. 3D
                  Mathematician Mandelbrot who wrote The Fractalist
                4. 4D
                  Tool used to move a 4A in or out of an oven
                5. 5D
                  Little rascal
                6. 6D
                  Something you might enter so a 4A can be brought to your door
                7. 7D
                  Cumin, in Chandigarh
                8. 8D
                  Classmate of Jakequaline, Balakay, and De-nice
                9. 9D
                  Comic Johnson
                10. 11D
                  Band booking
                11. 12D
                  Fad disk of the 90's
                12. 16D
                  Spy action thriller TV series starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas
                13. 18D
                  Delicious fruits I've never had on a 4A (though apparently it's been done)
                14. 19D
                  Parable of the _____, Octavia Butler's 1993 novel everyone should read (no seriously, pause this puzzle and go read it now)
                15. 20D
                  Model Campbell, actress Watts, or singer Judd
                16. 21D
                  Classic 1985 Kurosawa film based on King Lear
                17. 22D
                  Resident of St. John's, for (very) short
                18. 23D
                  1971 Piers Anthony book (or a Cockney's trumpet)
                19. 25D
                  Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-____
                20. 27D
                  Consumer protection agcy.
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