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◆◆ · By kieranjboyd · Published 2023-09-02T01:10:25.746Z
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- what a cute fish!! the revelation came pretty late as i was looking for bowling balls or anything thematically related to bowling
- Ha very fun! I should have paid a bit more attention to the tag and title (also slight typo in the 9D clue, I think)
- Rosetta Stone 🤓4:53 · 2023-09-02T12:19:55.712ZMarry me
- I got confused by 17A. AFAICT, Purdue Airport is indeed the second busiest airport, but Lafayette is nowhere close to the second biggest city in Indiana. It really threw me off because I knew Fort Wayne is the second largest city.
- Teaches me to trust Wikipedia without verifying! Sorry it made you … puzzled. Given your Indiana experience, would you be able to suggest an alternative clue? "IATA code for Purdue University Airport in Indiana, named for another Indiana city"?
- Purdue University is in West Lafayette, so you I think you can probably end it with "named for its city", I think. And FWIW, there's got to be someone around here who knows Indiana better than I do. I haven't lived there since I was a toddler!
- Nope, you're my correspondent now. I've updated the clue to at least be factual. Thanks for the help, Hoosier!
- Lovely puzzle! However, as somebody that grew up in the city referenced in 17A, you may want to correct the clue. Lafayette isn't quite that big.
- lisajay 🤓20:26 · 2023-09-04T00:13:37.074ZGood one!
- Tough but very good! You probably know this, but the only reference to LAF as an answer in NYT is from 1987 Sunday puzzle with clue "The "We are here" gen." Better story behind it, but not much better than an IATA code for a crossword, right?
- I did see that, but figured this angle might have been a bit more accessible. In retrospect, something like "Ingredient in both pi___ and fa___el?" would have been better still. The grid was very constrained, and this is the glue I accepted!
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- 1AUnfamiliar with
- 6AIt began during the events of 'Oppenheimer'
- 10ACrustacean more likely to be found in salty waters than in a fishbowl
- 12AState
- 13AJames ___, American author of the autobiographical novel 'A Death in the Family'
- 14AVitriol
- 15AScrap
- 16ABlew hot air, briefly
- 17AIATA code for Purdue University Airport in Indiana
- 18AGamer's bane
- 19AHe loved Lucy
- 20A6, in Malay [okay fine, it's the word for lion's hair but backwards]
- 22ARichard ___, British screenwriter of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral,' 'Notting Hill,' and 'Bridget Jones's Diary'
- 24AIndonesian sauce featuring shallots, bird's eye chilli, lemongrass, and only one of the vowels
- 26ACoercing, or using as a cane
- 27ADepictions of Reddit's alien mascot, whose name comes from the question "What’s new?"
Down
- 1D"I'm all good"
- 2DThe E of EMT (abbr.)
- 3DAbbreviation for the D&D ability that measures "perception and insight"
- 4D"Bah!" in Berlin
- 5DByte prefix
- 6DHand-made, probably
- 7DChampionship match
- 8DVerdi's sixteenth opera
- 9DOne born on the largest continent to a local mother a US military father
- 10DGood name for a 11D
- 11DFeature of this grid
- 19DLugs
- 21DThey're held by many CEOs
- 22DAward won by the Corona Plastic Fishing Tournament advertising campaign in 2022
- 23D"Yeah, that's wrong"
- 25DRaggedy doll
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