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◆ · By Sara · Published 2024-03-07T20:17:32.555Z

Constructor's Note
Thanks to @madeleine for workshopping, and for ideating 68A
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  • madeleine 🤓17:26 · 2024-03-07T21:31:01.027Z
    I love it
    • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓7:31 · 2024-03-08T03:04:53.436Z
      Very impressed with the jumbo! I enjoyed the theme and thought overall the fill was smooth. A few things that I noticed:
      • In the clue for 31A, I think you mean to refer to 18A (not 19A).
      • I didn’t feel like the clue for 40A quite fit the entry.
      • The entry for 15D is plural, but the clue is singular.
      • In 86D his surname is VARGAS LLOSA; I think you could fix it by cluing as a fill-in-the-blank.
      • Sara constructor · 2024-03-08T12:53:25.092Z
        thanks for the feedback! I've adjusted 31a and 15d
      • Sara constructor · 2024-03-08T12:54:16.852Z
        Jumbos are exhausting to construct 🙃
        • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓7:31 · 2024-03-08T15:07:31.247Z
          At this point, I can only imagine! Any tips about (a) which parts were hardest (grid design, fill, cluing) or (b) how you made it through?
          • Sara constructor · 2024-03-08T17:00:51.887Z
            honestly more than anything I was wishing to be able to edit the word lists used for autofill. Mostly I kept autofill on so I could see if I messed something up, and I started with the most isolated corners that I could fill without having a lot of impacts on the rest of the grid (especially since that improved the autofill performance, since it ran incredibly slowly when it was trying to fill the huge grid before I got much filled out). Otherwise it was just my motivation that I really really wanted to fit in 68A without breaking it up.
        • benharri 23:30 · 2024-03-11T15:31:12.178Z
          nicely done!~
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          1A
          70s carpet type
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          Across
          1. 1A
            70s carpet type
          2. 5A
            Tea with tapioca
          3. 9A
            This puzzle's constructor
          4. 13A
            Money machines
          5. 17A
            Angle-defining Greek letter
          6. 18A
            Common crossword woodwind
          7. 19A
            Spoken aloud
          8. 20A
            Middle eastern country governed by a Supreme Leader
          9. 21A
            Crystalline mineral vital to the electronics industry
          10. 22A
            Oinkers
          11. 23A
            Unusually tall band that potentially exists? (Abbr.)
          12. 24A
            Attempted to run faster than
          13. 26A
            Genre a DJ might play at a rave, for example
          14. 27A
            Early home video game console
          15. 29A
            The use of this separates humans from animals, ostensibly
          16. 31A
            On Craiglist, letters indicating other dollar amounts might be accepted (in my head, it's a homophone of 18A)
          17. 32A
            Long-distance stabber
          18. 33A
            Consider (acceptable)
          19. 35A
            Finger of a foot, essentially
          20. 37A
            *"Do you think we'll still be able to go fishing in heaven?" / "Yeah, I like to think I'm going to the great ___"
          21. 40A
            When the leaves' activity aligns with the name of the season
          22. 43A
            Mine material
          23. 44A
            Small test
          24. 45A
            *"Wow, what a distinguished mustelid!" / "Yeah, he really is ___"
          25. 50A
            Puts the skin back on a banana?
          26. 54A
            Sum
          27. 55A
            Alley aisles
          28. 56A
            Nintendo's movement-sending console
          29. 57A
            Futbol shout
          30. 58A
            Spare me the ___! (Cut it out with the flowery language)
          31. 61A
            Pimiento partner
          32. 62A
            Prohibits
          33. 63A
            Italian river
          34. 64A
            Sense of self
          35. 65A
            Upsilon follower
          36. 66A
            Down in the dumps
          37. 67A
            Comic Simon of "Shaun of the Dead"
          38. 68A
            *"I find reading the Greek classics really comforting" / "Yeah, you know what they say, ___."
          39. 77A
            Sweater or wool variety named for the Irish islands of its origin
          40. 78A
            Promotions
          41. 79A
            Grads-to-be: Abbr.
          42. 80A
            Common computer cable
          43. 81A
            "See previous citation"
          44. 82A
            Basics
          45. 84A
            Top tech director in an org.
          46. 85A
            Baby fowl
          47. 90A
            When repeated, Belgian reporter of comics, and an 2011 film
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            84A's boss
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            ___ Carta, King John's Royal charter
          50. 94A
            Related to an arm bone
          51. 95A
            Go back over, as with looping code
          52. 98A
            *"Did you decide what job you're applying for at the firm?" / "Yeah, I think I'm ___"
          53. 102A
            "Red" Viking explorer
          54. 103A
            Be human
          55. 104A
            What a baker does to develop gluten
          56. 105A
            "I need a B!" / "B!" / "___!" (Cheerleader's cry, or a hint to the starred clues)
          57. 110A
            Wax:Wane :: Flow:___
          58. 111A
            Helper, for short
          59. 115A
            Troubadour's "ah, king"
          60. 116A
            Shrill shout
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            Sandy sediment
          62. 120A
            NYC congresswoman
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            Golfer's goal
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            Impressionist painter - but not the one with the water lilies, though their respective wikipedia pages link to each other
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            On a ___ rotation, as a nurse might informally describe working with children
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            Uttered
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            David Bowie is an cosmic one
          68. 130A
            General idea
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            Program for students who speak a different language at school than they do at home
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            Anya in an Austen remake
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            Brother's daughter
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            Online craft shop
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            Ratatouille rodent
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            Observed
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            Kill it, whether in fashion or by force
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            Embarrassment
          2. 2D
            Belonging to that woman
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            Abbr. used on an envelope to specify an individual at the addressed company
          4. 4D
            Newspaper, as Franklin's Pennsylvania ___
          5. 5D
            Great song, as the kids would say
          6. 6D
            Last words?
          7. 7D
            Sale acronym
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            Famous fabulist
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            Drunkard
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            Chain mail maker or equipper
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            Synagogue scholar
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            Indigenous nation of Québec
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            Dirigible, say
          14. 14D
            High-flying circus act
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            Knights' bludgeoning weapons
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            Move stealthily
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            Sassy or arrogant affect, in the 90s
          18. 21D
            Proof letters
          19. 25D
            Not wet
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            Acidic
          21. 30D
            Hello, is it [Richie] you're looking for?
          22. 34D
            Angry with
          23. 36D
            Black-wearing, MCR-listening teenage phase, say
          24. 38D
            Aphrodite's son
          25. 39D
            African capital city that becomes its country when adding -ia
          26. 41D
            Even more like the baby swan raised as a duck
          27. 42D
            Pigskin org.
          28. 45D
            Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, and this is the power they produce:
          29. 46D
            Ghostly greeting
          30. 47D
            Consumed
          31. 48D
            One-way password scrambles, or potatoes you could have as a side with a scramble
          32. 49D
            Sign outside a door where someone is currently broadcasting
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            White wading bird
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            Beginning of 20A
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            Moves with effort, as through a swamp
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            Walk through water
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            Digital movie addition
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            ... --- ...
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            Scrooge's exclamations
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            Yearly interest number
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            Top degrees
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            Sturdy
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            Dominican Republic neighbor
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            Planetary path
          45. 70D
            Northeasternmost US state
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            Finish
          47. 72D
            Texas city unfortunately best known for the Branch Davidians standoff
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            What many of us do with documents, in the Zoom era
          49. 74D
            Embrace
          50. 75D
            That, to Tomás
          51. 76D
            Ridiculous
          52. 82D
            When Juliet drinks the poison
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            Apiarist
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            Trail-marking stone piles
          55. 86D
            Peruvian novelist
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            Writing need
          57. 88D
            Not, to a Scot
          58. 89D
            [I'm so mad]
          59. 92D
            Berry, in Barcelona
          60. 93D
            Not at the computer, in text speak
          61. 96D
            Move backwards
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            Ghibli character with a secret world
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            Portmanteau of nerdy culture
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            Less than two
          65. 100D
            Singer McEntire
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            Old world monkeys who can store food in their checks like chipmunks
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            Eat, slangily
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            Group in Killers of the Flower Moon
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            What to do in a minute, as in the game show
          70. 108D
            Mistaken plural after confusing two Canadian creatures' spellings
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            Gets up
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            Full of capsaicin
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            Quench, as hunger
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            Attempt
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            Uncool
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            Fourth dimension
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            449 to Caesar, maybe (it makes sense to to me but Google disagrees)
          78. 125D
            Fox-like
          79. 127D
            Legless lieutenant
          80. 129D
            Anti-narcotics gp.
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