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No Matter How You Slice It

· By kieranjboyd · Published 2024-06-14T23:05:56.097Z

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  • TeeJay 🤓9:02 · 2024-06-15T00:03:18.755Z
    fun
    • kieranjboyd constructor · 2024-06-15T00:21:06.274Z
      3D was originally clued as "Descriptor for Ellen Ripley or Wonder Woman" because I forgot how to spell "heroine" - oops. With thanks to Brian for picking up the mistake, and for introducing me to pizza in 21A!
      • Brian Callahan 19s · 2024-06-15T05:26:31.322Z
        Love this! Also, like the pizza, our crossword conversations were DEEP.
      • JeffsPuzzles 🤓2:48 · 2024-06-15T01:55:14.870Z
        Beautiful! Next time, though, you'll have to work DETROIT in as well. (NEW HAVEN has a claim, too, but it's 8 letters.)
        • apeminkie 🤓4:17 · 2024-06-15T01:48:38.134Z
          Surprised you didn’t go for the triple with DETROIT. Nevertheless, brilliant work as always!
          • heron 🤓3:46 · 2024-06-15T02:43:23.426Z
            wow, this was beautiful--didn't suspect anything until i got to 22D since i had NEWYORK and everything worked perfectly. extremely impressive that you got a 7-letter schrodinger to work, especially when all 7 letters are unique! loved the META clues for META and EDIT. the clue for STRAW is great as well. HEROIN/HEROIC and DIYER/DICER are absolutely BEAUTIFUL clues--how did you even come up with these??
            • IAMGOOSE 4:41 · 2024-06-15T05:14:01.583Z
              Love these kinds of crosswords! Great work!
              • An Ephemeral Collation 🤓3:08 · 2024-06-15T14:19:59.978Z
                Impressive construction!
                • kurtalert 🤓1:53 · 2024-06-15T15:52:50.472Z
                  Very nice, thank you kieran!
                  • Steve Johnson 🤓3:09 · 2024-06-15T17:10:54.973Z
                    Great puzzle, and you made me hungry 🍕
                    • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓2:28 · 2024-06-15T17:00:12.517Z
                      Nicely done!
                      • Puzzled 🤓12:44 · 2024-06-18T12:10:13.510Z
                        Is there a New York style of deep dish? 29D made me certain it was CHICAGO instead of NEWYORK.
                        • kieranjboyd constructor · 2024-06-18T21:44:16.291Z
                          It's both - have a look at the completed grid for a few seconds 😉
                          • Puzzled 🤓12:44 · 2024-06-19T14:36:34.480Z
                            I saw at the end that both are accepted; what I was trying to say is that the clue for 29D seems to exclude NEWYORK as a valid answer, right?
                            • kieranjboyd constructor · 2024-06-19T21:27:56.004Z
                              Ahh. The intent was for 7D to refer to NEW YORK and 29D to refer to CHICAGO, and this to give solvers a bit of a heads up to the Schrodinger. See this crossword from the NYT for another example of this type of cluing.
                              • Puzzled 🤓12:44 · 2024-06-20T00:04:43.196Z
                                Ah, got it. Thanks for the explanation.
                        • SMEE 20:22 · 2024-06-19T09:33:29.968Z
                          I could have eaten a whole deep pan, or thin crust pizza in the time I took; but nonetheless, I’m totally in awe of your inventiveness.
                          • Wayne Mesard 🤓6:30 · 2024-06-22T14:27:49.198Z
                            Amazing construction. And the Down clues are all so smooth.
                            • BarbaraK 🤓5:19 · 2024-06-23T15:13:25.328Z
                              Wow, very well dond!
                              1A
                              Fire proof?
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                              Across
                              1. 1A
                                Fire proof?
                              2. 4A
                                Drive the getaway car, say
                              3. 8A
                                Education abbreviation for technical studies
                              4. 10A
                                Members of a subculture wearing black
                              5. 12A
                                Lesser Antilles native
                              6. 14A
                                "Take responsibility!"
                              7. 15A
                                On
                              8. 17A
                                Word after bus, sea, or Penny
                              9. 18A
                                Penultimate Greek letter
                              10. 19A
                                Gofer
                              11. 21A
                                America's best pizza city
                              12. 24A
                                Work without ___ (take risks)
                              13. 25A
                                Helpful people to know
                              14. 28A
                                Fix a tpyo, say
                              15. 31A
                                Curdling agent used by cows and cheese makers
                              16. 33A
                                Continue, as a subscription
                              17. 35A
                                Capital of Senegal
                              18. 36A
                                So old it's cool again
                              19. 37A
                                Self-referential, like this clue
                              20. 38A
                                It's struck on a runway
                              21. 39A
                                Wall Street index, with "the"
                              Down
                              1. 1D
                                US songwriters' organisation (abbr.)
                              2. 2D
                                Wild guesses
                              3. 3D
                                Word that a stoner might replace with "dope"?
                              4. 4D
                                Before now
                              5. 5D
                                Feature of John Cleese's character in The Ministry of Silly Walks
                              6. 6D
                                Geological formation near Messina
                              7. 7D
                                ___ crust (type of pizza typical in 21A)
                              8. 9D
                                Uma's Pulp Fiction character
                              9. 11D
                                ___ Jeanne d'Arc
                              10. 13D
                                Half of an idiom comparing smarts to strength
                              11. 16D
                                One focused on cutting costs in the household?
                              12. 20D
                                Was romantically active
                              13. 22D
                                Ones scoffing or attacking
                              14. 23D
                                "When I twisted the pig's tail, it ___"
                              15. 26D
                                "Cool beans!"
                              16. 27D
                                Drinking utensil with only one hole
                              17. 28D
                                Demonstrate humanity, perhaps
                              18. 29D
                                ___ dish (type of pizza typical in 21A)
                              19. 30D
                                Digging
                              20. 32D
                                Apocalypse Now setting
                              21. 34D
                                Misery
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