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Themeless 79

◆◆ · By JeffsPuzzles · Published 2024-06-09T11:58:28.491Z

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  • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-06-09T11:58:41.857Z
    Here’s an oleo of a themeless, to use some hoary crosswordese. There’s a Hindu deity, one of my favorite authors, some Aussie slang, some Vietnamese food, and a Monty Python reference, among divers and sundry other entries. I hope you find it tasty and satisfying, like 3 Down but decidedly unlike 37 Down.
    • Cycleboy 34:35 · 2024-06-09T14:51:10.154Z
      Entertaining as always! I learned some new words also, and reinforced my fear for our country's future.
      • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-06-09T17:19:07.619Z
        Thank you for solving!
      • An Ephemeral Collation 11:19 · 2024-06-09T14:45:59.018Z
        Greatly enjoyed most of this solve but some structural issues through the NW resulted in the presence of several naticks. Simplifying as much the cluing for the most common fill in that section would balance the difficulty greatly.
        • JeffsPuzzles constructor · 2024-06-09T17:18:01.153Z
          Thanks for solving - you're absolutely right, the NW is a bear. I'll think about simplifying the cluing in that corner.
        • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓6:21 · 2024-06-09T17:02:17.348Z
          Fun, thank you! I salute your editorial voice even if some entries failed my personal breakfast test (I speak, of course, of 37D — though with sufficient peanut butter, even they are edible).
          Play today's daily mini crossword
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          Part of the old one-two
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          1. 1A
            Part of the old one-two
          2. 4A
            Some whiskies
          3. 8A
            Kaboom alternative
          4. 12A
            "___ loco con su tema" (Each crazy person has their obsession)
          5. 13A
            Famous shootout participant (he was OK)
          6. 14A
            Root that sounds like a deck of cards
          7. 15A
            Hwy. from AK to BC
          8. 16A
            Org. whose women drive more carefully than their male counterparts
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            Hone
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            One of the Hindu Tridevi
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            Last name in palindromic musicians/artists
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            Midori on ice
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            Roughly five percent of India's population
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            Arguing (doing so on line would be doubly so)
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            To hear in Tijuana
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            See 7 Down
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            Subjunctive, e.g.
          18. 32A
            Put on a _____ (flex, colloquially)
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            Kristi ___, South Dakota governor who shot her own dog, has been banned from entering tribal grounds accounting for 20 percent of her state, and might be our next Vice President
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            First name in palindromic African dictators
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            DEA agent, colloquially
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            American Impressionist
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            Quiet ___ ("Cum on Feel the Noize")
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            "What's the rush?"
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            __ de coeur
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            Silence
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            Some convertibles
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            Important figure on the beach
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            Red Sox legend, familiarly
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            Fateful river
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            Common screen
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            Reds, e.g.
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            Gas minimizer
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            Gospel singer Priscilla Winans, familiarly
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            It looks down on Catania
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            Bugs
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            Compilation record giant
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            It might be split on a fence
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            Golfers get a rise out of it
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            Sheep farm trainee (great bit of Australian slang that sounds like a rabbit/marsupial combo)
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            One em or en?
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            Pho menu-mate
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            Cede
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            Toy sound
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            Middle of a Cartesian statement
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            With 28 Across, whom Monty Python says "nobody expects"
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            FYI kin
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            Author of "The Interpreter of Maladies" and "Roman Stories"
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            "You're not D2!" "We ____!"
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            Gordy label
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            Loud and clear, as a call
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            Author of "Tuesdays with Morrie"
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            Final Han dynasty
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            The ___ (it might make you cry with laughter)
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            When almost all baseball games take place in the afternoon
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            Battling
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            Frequent question for new parents
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            "Unleaded"
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            "___ yes, but I like it too" (Classic advertising line for Irish Spring uttered by an Irish lass)
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            Edible, grain-based styrofoam equivalent, as far as I'm concerned
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            Ropes (off)
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            Jumper
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            Mapo ___
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            "___ man - [he's] a remorseless eating machine!" (statement about Homer Simpson)
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            Words often preceding "and tired"
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            Kermit, e.g.
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            Apt rhyme for erase
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            Bugs to Fudd
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            It's "Fosters" in Australian, but it's ___ in French
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            It's not the last letter of the Greek alphabet, though some may think it is
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            Third part of a computer user's "three-finger salute"
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            Darth, when young
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