I just wanted to say thanks to all the folks who've solved my contributions on Crosshare this year. While I've achieved my goal of a consistent weekly upload schedule, the difficulty levels have been much more variable (usually because I'm testing some ambitious, constraining idea). As such, I appreciate everyone who stuck with it, and especially those who left feedback, comments, and corrections.
I'll be taking a break from the NYT Minimised series for a while (and encourage others to take up the mantle - @Jerms?), but I have plenty of midis in my backlog ready for weekend uploads, so look forward to more wordy experiments in the new year!
Kieran, thank you for all the wonderful solving opportunities (including this one)! One nit - LSATs are prereqs for applying to law school, so they're really for "would-be" law students.
Madeleine ___, the first female U.S. secretary of state *
19A
Front of a ship
22A
___ buco (delicious Italian veal dish)
23A
Wee boy, in the UK *
27A
File type opened in Notepad++
28A
Broadcasting
31A
What most fairy tales, all starred entries, and this year's set of weekly midi crosswords all have
34A
Responsibility
35A
Caught attending
36A
Takes home
37A
Exams for prospective US law students (abbr.)
Down
1D
Drag
2D
Slip ___ (blunder)
3D
Greek goddess of marriage, women, and family
4D
Chicago suburb named for a wooded area
5D
Sign up
6D
"Over-the-shoulder boulder holder"
7D
Changes the price of
8D
Letters represented as 𐪑 ,𐩱, and א
9D
Greets aloofly
11D
Novi Sad native
14D
The Once-___ ('The Lorax' narrator)
18D
Ions represented by "I⁻"
19D
Programming language named for a reptile
20D
'Cyrano de Bergerac' heroine
21D
Yield
24D
G on a pride flag
25D
Fabrications
26D
US trademark for triacetate fibre
29D
Word for a hidden message in a crossword, named for Al Hirschfeld's daughter, often hidden in his cartoons [don't worry, this crossword doesn't have one]
I'll be taking a break from the NYT Minimised series for a while (and encourage others to take up the mantle - @Jerms?), but I have plenty of midis in my backlog ready for weekend uploads, so look forward to more wordy experiments in the new year!