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One Year in Albums

◆ · By mondestrunken · Published 2021-09-24T12:16:05.758Z

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First puzzle on Crosshare - hope you enjoy! The puzzle is built around the titles of 17 albums, whose artists are clued but not the common year in which they all came out. This year is the answer to the meta-puzzle at the end!
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  • Mike D solved 2021-09-24T13:01:40.051Z

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  • Mike D 2:08 · 2021-09-24T13:02:54.889Z
    Cool idea for a puzzle! I like how you used the meta feature for this too. I didn't finish solving only because I don't usually have enough time to solve anything bigger than a 15x15
    • mondestrunken constructor · 2021-09-24T15:38:18.438Z
      Thank you for the comment and the kind words! :)
    Play today's daily mini crossword
    1A
    Sanskrit honorific, or first word of a South Asian country
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    Across
    1. 1A
      Sanskrit honorific, or first word of a South Asian country
    2. 4A
      Prince album from mystery year
    3. 14A
      Catches sight of
    4. 19A
      Currency unit of Kazakhstan
    5. 21A
      River in northern Spain
    6. 22A
      Former state of India, annexed by Britain in 1856
    7. 23A
      Prefix denoting the original or primitive version of something
    8. 24A
      Upbeat electronic music genre, in short
    9. 26A
      Midwestern US state
    10. 27A
      Guns n' Roses album from mystery year
    11. 30A
      Internet code for the Netherlands
    12. 31A
      Resident of India's smallest state
    13. 32A
      A saint, to a Spaniard
    14. 33A
      Chicago's state (abbr.)
    15. 34A
      Concerning
    16. 35A
      National origin of dish in 65A
    17. 37A
      Caribbean 'Puerto' that is an American territory
    18. 38A
      A Parisian curtain?
    19. 42A
      A legal representative
    20. 44A
      National fruit of Jamaica (alt. spelling)
    21. 46A
      Home of the Whopper (init.)
    22. 48A
      A pore found in the epidermis of a leaf or stem
    23. 50A
      International body that develops worldwide standards
    24. 51A
      Old French coin
    25. 52A
      Element, symbol Sn
    26. 53A
      Fleetwood Mac album from mystery year
    27. 57A
      Towards the stern of a ship
    28. 59A
      'Moss animal' named after the location of its anus.
    29. 61A
      Vocable indicating hesitation
    30. 62A
      Ireland's national broadcaster
    31. 63A
      Dairy product
    32. 65A
      Tom ___ kai, hot and spicy soup
    33. 66A
      What ß represents
    34. 67A
      Genus of plants including ragworts
    35. 70A
      South American country
    36. 72A
      ____ and Crafts, mid-19 Century stylistic movement
    37. 74A
      A unit of energy, equal to 100nJ
    38. 76A
      White Lion album from mystery year
    39. 78A
      In Marxist thought, a member of the working class
    40. 80A
      The places where surgeries take place (init.)
    41. 82A
      Gently coaxing; or, diffusing, simplifying
    42. 84A
      Pioneering American Internet brand
    43. 85A
      A sandwich or a sea vessel, for short
    44. 86A
      An epic prose narrative, particularly an Old Norse one
    45. 87A
      Aerospace manufacturer
    46. 89A
      Wanes
    47. 91A
      Volatile computer memory that stores in-use data
    48. 93A
      Starch extracted from palms
    49. 95A
      A narrow typographical space
    50. 96A
      The Smiths album from mystery year
    51. 102A
      One tenth of a cm
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      Withered or dry
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      The ground sloth from "Ice Age"
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      Bundles of cash
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      Egyptian god of the morning sun
    56. 109A
      ____ Johnson, "Knives Out" director
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      Infertility solution (init.)
    58. 113A
      Singer Orbison
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      Ancient name of Urfa, Turkey
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      "Shameless" character played in the US by Cameron Monaghan
    61. 118A
      Not vain
    62. 121A
      George Michael album from mystery year
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      NY rapper and ex-husband of Kelis
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      Home of a badger
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      Vases, amphorae
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      Cinnamon-flavored candy created by Ferrera
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      Two, to Caesar
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      A section of a play; or what you would do in it
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      Chickpea dip
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      "Love, Reign '_ Me", song by the Who
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      Spivak third-person pronoun
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      Meat-eating mammals
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      ___ Lingus, Ireland's flag carrier
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      Mötley Crüe album from mystery year
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      π π π π π
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      ___ 9000, antagonistic computer
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      Hearing organ
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      English singer-songwriter Sir _____ John
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      Short form of Seymour
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      Ancient Greek temple
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      In a heavy, beleaguered manner
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      Mixing a salad
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      A false god, such as... a pop star
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      The source of tofu and nattō, amongst others
    85. 161A
      __ vey, Yiddish exclamation
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      Monty Python's Knights say it
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      Character played by 157D
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      An angle or slant
    89. 168A
      The personnel department of an organisation (init.)
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      Siouxsie and the Banshees album from mystery year
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      Toe line in darts
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      Hard-shelled, often edible seed
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      Manufacturer of Beanie Babies
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      Hired thug
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      Element no. 10
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      First word in traditional choosing rhyme
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      Wagons (archaics)
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      U2 album from mystery year
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      British Army special forces unit, founded in 1941
    Down
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      To cease motion entirely, or to become foul from doing so
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      Taking back of property without going through the courts (abbr.)
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      Bracketed
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      Division of a game of tennis
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      Traditional Japanese raised sandal
    6. 6D
      Ceaseless
    7. 7D
      Redcedar tree
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      "Ben-___", Best Picture winner
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      Redmayne, or Murphy
    10. 10D
      A sentence of flagellation
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      A mongrel
    12. 12D
      Make a mistake
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      An anthem, psalm or biblical extract read or sung before a service
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      A bridge, to a Venetian
    15. 16D
      Sandra __, "Invincible" actress
    16. 17D
      ____ Fey, "Mean Girls" writer
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      Suzanne Vega album from mystery year
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      Robin Williams' role in "Aladdin"
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      Washington's federal district (init.)
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      Coffin stands
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      Contour lines linking points of equal atmospheric pressure
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      Remove a label from
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      Def Leppard album from mystery year
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      Grows strong foundations (like a plant), or rummages through
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      Principal component of turpentine
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      Wombs
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      A French girlfriend?
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      Patriarch who built an ark
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      INXS album from mystery year
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      Architectures features in the shape of flower buds
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      Victorious
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      An instantaneous transportation device (abbr.)
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      British military award for actions not in the face of the enemy (init.)
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      First name of Green Day's drummer
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      The backs of the feet
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      Terrifying
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      A long paddle
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      Reductions in a fund, service or program
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      What you may see 131A on
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      "I can't get a word in ________!"
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      What you're doing right now
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      The longest river in Italy
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      Utilise again
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      Public Enemy album from mystery year
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      A stylistic category, especially of literature, film or music
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      If you like it, then Beyoncé thinks this should have been put on it
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      Where a passenger in a car may sit
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      A little used conlang first published in 1906
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      The genus of the button mushroom
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      To expiate, pay the penalty
    51. 88D
      "I'm not who you're looking for!"
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      Michael Jackson album from mystery year
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      Communards album from mystery year
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      I, in the accusative
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      Rice, or a meal, in Japanese
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      At no point in time
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      The 19th letter, spelled out
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      A horse's breakfast
    59. 100D
      To hone a knife
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      Anglican Christians, particularly in countries such as the US
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      American actor Sal (1939-1976)
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      Egyptian god of the midday sun
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      Pet Shop Boys album from mystery year
    64. 112D
      English composer Gerald (1901-1956)
    65. 115D
      Toy firearm that shoots circular projectiles
    66. 116D
      Bakes an egg in a flat-bottomed dish
    67. 119D
      Element 117, for short
    68. 120D
      Clothed, in an old-fashioned manner
    69. 121D
      Famous London bookstore
    70. 123D
      Dialect of English natively spoken by various communities of Black North Americans (init.)
    71. 127D
      A fungus that commonly affects cereal grains
    72. 128D
      2013 Joaquin Phoenix-led sci-fi rom-dram
    73. 130D
      Situated within
    74. 132D
      Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt album from mystery year
    75. 134D
      Amide present in pee
    76. 135D
      Singers Murs or Alexander, individually
    77. 138D
      Chinese artist Weiwei (born 1957)
    78. 139D
      Was, but now
    79. 140D
      Appraises
    80. 142D
      To display a menu option with lighter text or symbols, to indicate it is not available
    81. 143D
      To sign out and back in again, often to fix a connection issue
    82. 144D
      Without having to retry
    83. 148D
      To decorate
    84. 151D
      Like 179A - or a duchess
    85. 153D
      Consumed
    86. 155D
      Corn towers
    87. 156D
      Historic Turkish statesman (1884 - 1973)
    88. 157D
      English actor Rupert (born 1988)
    89. 160D
      Killer whale
    90. 162D
      An infection of the eye's oil glands
    91. 165D
      Down it in a ____, drink something in a single continuous action
    92. 167D
      China's continent
    93. 170D
      The first note, to a Frenchman
    94. 171D
      Text-speak indication of intended assistance (init.)
    95. 172D
      Vocal indication of interest
    96. 173D
      To stir or speed a horse up
    97. 175D
      An informal greeting
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