Omar who serves as deputy chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
7A
Oscar-winning actress Davis
Down
1D
Lead-in to -graph (a printing technique) or -phone (a prehistoric percussion instrument)
2D
Like the traditional numeral system of the Yuki people of California, who count on the spaces between their fingers rather than on their fingers themselves
3D
Oscar-winning actress Davis
4D
Grocery department whose name is a shortening of an English borrowing of a German borrowing of a French borrowing of an Italian word derived from a Latin word meaning "___ghtful"
5D
Surname of famously colorful character Roy G.
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The Talented Ms. Davis
โ ยท By Sommersmith ยท Published about 1 month ago ยท Crosshare's Daily Mini for 2/22/2025
Fun, thank you! This is an impressively coherent mini. I figure you started with 3D/5A/7A given your title, and then you got 1A/4A in there as well. But I think I most liked how you clued 1D.
Very kind, thank you! You're right that the trio of actresses came first, and 1A/4A fell into place very fortuitously. I had a lot of fun cluing the puzzle overall so I'm really glad you enjoyed solving it!
From Marcia Ascher's book Ethnomathematics (2017): "There is an often-repeated idea that numberals involving cylces based on ten are somehow more logical because of human fingers. The Yuki of Califronia are said to believe that their cycles based on eight are most appropriate for exactly the same reason. The Yuki, however, are referring to the interfinger spaces."