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Mini 102 = 2 • 3 • 17 Edition

◆◆ · By Sendhil Revuluri · Published 2024-07-03T12:11:57.083Z

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  • kurtalert 🤓2:14 · 2024-07-03T14:51:37.941Z
    This was hard!
    • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-07-03T16:57:20.183Z
      I suspected as much, but good to know! (Did you feel it was more iffy entries, or hard cluing?) Thanks for solving!
    • JeffsPuzzles 🤓1:58 · 2024-07-03T16:55:44.101Z
      A fun challenge. Have you solved any of Brendan Sullivan's puzzles? He's a match professor (I think at CMU) and cruciverbalist. His regular puzzles (he posts every couple of weeks) have a bit of math content, but he also has a book of math-focused crosswords (which occupied me for a good part of a long flight).
    • dc 🤓4:10 · 2024-07-03T23:09:21.160Z
      nice one! I got a bit sidetracked by putting in AGU (American Geophysical Union) for 5D; I probably should've picked up that there should be a C in there a little earlier 😅
      • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-07-04T00:15:45.580Z
        Given how forced that entry was, I think the clue should be more blatant. I'll try to fix!
      • Larry Edelstein 🤓1:46 · 2024-07-04T00:23:19.830Z
        Without the hints; I think it's kinda funny - no slight intended - that "with countably infinite cardinality" is a hint. Not a lot of folks will find it hinty :-)
        • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-07-04T13:43:56.894Z
          Definitely a finite set of folks!
        • AuLeaf 4:24 · 2024-07-04T00:26:07.423Z
          I feel like the names shouldn't be spoilered in 9A, since demographics aren't really related to being a mathematician? Without knowing the examples, it's only gettable from crossing entries...
          • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-07-04T13:45:09.980Z
            In my experience, there are plenty of entries in plenty of puzzles where I've learned new things, and typically I get them from the crosses. Perhaps the connotation of "spoiler text" makes that mechanism inaccurate here; it was more intended as a "two-part clue".
          Play today's daily mini crossword
          1A
          Amt. at the bottom of pg. 1 & top of pg. 2 of a 1040
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          Across
          1. 1A
            Amt. at the bottom of pg. 1 & top of pg. 2 of a 1040
          2. 4A
            Eminent Australian-American mathematician Terence
          3. 7A
            It's not free of charge
          4. 8A
            Comics exclamation beloved of Bill the Cat (spoiler)
          5. 9A
            Many mathematicians (such as Ruth Gonzalez & Erika Camacho)
          6. 11A
            CGS unit of energy equal to 100 nJ (& aptly fills the blank en___y)
          7. 12A
            Industry that uses a lot of mathematics, especially linear algebra
          8. 16A
            Military aviator who downed at least five enemy aircraft in combat
          9. 17A
            Especially busy night in Times Square, for short
          10. 18A
            Woman's pronoun
          11. 19A
            Notebook divider
          Down
          1. 1D
            Feel poorly
          2. 2D
            Fourth smallest state of India (and the only one that fits this space)
          3. 3D
            Member of a set of numbers with countably infinite cardinality
          4. 4D
            It reaches out and touches a circle or other curve in just one point
          5. 5D
            Group for cryptographic puzzles, or scientific society into crystals
          6. 6D
            Approves, informally
          7. 10D
            NYC's first subway line
          8. 12D
            Scrooge's exclamation
          9. 13D
            Water one can walk on
          10. 14D
            Modern self-preservation initialism
          11. 15D
            Texas grocery chain (whose last letter stands for "Butt")
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