Mini 54 - Lorde Edition

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• kurtalert 🤓1:42 · 2024-05-09T21:48:01.949Z

  Very hard for a mini!

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-05-09T23:08:01.819Z

    Thanks for solving (unaided) nonetheless! Anything particularly stick out — bad crossings, obscure entries, hard clues?

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• heron 1:33 · 2024-05-09T23:15:21.240Z

  impressive amount of theme entries (especially for a grid with no black squares!). a lot of the fill was pretty hard--DROSS crossing ASSTD especially, for me. initially parsed A PEST as APE ST and was wondering how someone could be an ape saint for a while haha

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-05-10T02:05:45.004Z

    Thanks for the feedback! I probably should have stopped with the two.

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    • heron 1:33 · 2024-05-10T03:36:39.113Z

      i think three was good, although i'd recommend placing black squares in the corners to make the fill smoother

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• An Ephemeral Collation 🤓2:04 · 2024-05-10T16:30:06.561Z

  Great grid - given both the small size and the specificity of the theme knowledge, some cluing revisions outside of the theme fill might prove very useful.

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-05-10T20:26:12.046Z

    Thanks so much for the solve and the feedback! Very open to any suggestions.

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• mbensley 🤓2:26 · 2024-05-10T17:22:45.994Z

  I found this to be hard but really fun -- I didn't know a lot of the trivia but so much of it was inferrable like ELORO and eventually even SOLAR POWER. Nice work!

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-05-10T20:26:24.352Z

    Thanks so much!

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• kurtalert 🤓1:42 · 2024-05-10T18:45:45.411Z

  8A and 3D would have been the hardest clues on their own- I got 3D with a few crossers, but I don't think I would get a single letter of 8A without the downs! I don't know much about Lorde- other than Royals- so I was coming in fairly blind in that regard!

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-05-10T20:28:55.579Z

    Thanks so much for the (unassisted!) solve and the feedback. I tweaked the clue for 3D (which hopefully makes it easier, as intended) and added a helper link for 8A.

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• Larry Edelstein 🤓1:31 · 2024-05-10T20:56:22.863Z

  make me think a lot

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  • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-05-10T23:05:00.464Z

    You're welcome? Sorry? Maybe both? In any case, thanks for solving!

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