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◆ · By Chris Derrick · Published 2022-06-27T04:17:50.081Z

Constructor's Note
This puzzle makes a lot more sense if you're familiar with 90s NYC hip hop.
This is my favorite puzzle that I have made so far. I am pleased with how I was able to work the various album titles into the grid -- it took a long time. I sketched this puzzle out in a notebook while sipping a beer at a neighborhood spot. There was a hip hop Pandora or Spotify playlist on in the background and it sparked this idea. I wish I could get all four Outer Boroughs represented rather than using Brooklyn twice, but there just wasn't a good fit from The Bronx - CD
Chris Derrick
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  • Mike D 3s · 2022-06-27T18:03:26.498Z
    Nice!
    • sss 🤓7:15 · 2022-06-27T17:47:09.875Z
      10A?
      • Chris Derrick constructor · 2022-06-27T22:37:33.597Z
        10A was an error from an earlier work-up of the puzzle. Thanks for catching it.
      • Nick M 12:13 · 2022-06-28T02:43:00.042Z
        Made me think!
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        Old French bread?
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        1. 1A
          Old French bread?
        2. 6A
          Virtuoso banjoist Fleck
        3. 10A
          Had outstanding debt
        4. 14A
          From the Latin "I hear"
        5. 15A
          Muscle car emission
        6. 16A
          "___ ___ chance!"
        7. 17A
          Queens, 1991
        8. 20A
          Sea eagle
        9. 21A
          Part of a plan
        10. 22A
          West Wing workers
        11. 23A
          Google's web conferencing platform
        12. 24A
          1963 Paul Newman film adapted from a Larry McMurtry novel
        13. 25A
          Staten Island, 1993
        14. 32A
          Real cards
        15. 33A
          ___ Against the Machine
        16. 34A
          Parts seller: abbr.
        17. 36A
          Rooney or Kate
        18. 37A
          Children's doctor?
        19. 39A
          Bohemian, perhaps
        20. 40A
          Will Smith title role
        21. 41A
          1965 Beatles film
        22. 42A
          Fess up
        23. 43A
          Brooklyn, 1997
        24. 47A
          Music genre prefix
        25. 48A
          Forum patrol, briefly
        26. 49A
          Sri Lankan language
        27. 52A
          One-time Mercury model
        28. 54A
          One of Baltimore's favorite sons
        29. 57A
          Brooklyn, 1996
        30. 60A
          Tuscan river
        31. 61A
          Wight or Skye
        32. 62A
          Pull some strings?
        33. 63A
          Butt out?
        34. 64A
          Those folks over yonder
        35. 65A
          Maravich and Buttigieg
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          Dylan sang of its simple twist
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          German industrial valley
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          Yemeni port city lending its name to a gulf
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          Zip
        5. 5D
          Bradley and Gary of Hollywood
        6. 6D
          Something to catch or save
        7. 7D
          Ages and ages
        8. 8D
          Put aboard
        9. 9D
          Part of MOMA
        10. 10D
          One of the Haudenosaunee nations
        11. 11D
          Natalie of "Rebel Without a Cause"
        12. 12D
          French 101 verb
        13. 13D
          ___ Inn
        14. 18D
          Hone
        15. 19D
          Word with cuisine or couture
        16. 23D
          Zuckerberg's organization, now
        17. 24D
          Greets emphatically
        18. 25D
          Humorist Bombeck
        19. 26D
          Pop music's Horan
        20. 27D
          Gate at a Shinto site
        21. 28D
          Go ballistic
        22. 29D
          Existed
        23. 30D
          "___ Rae"
        24. 31D
          Pick up the hints
        25. 35D
          Ancient lore
        26. 37D
          Straphangers desire
        27. 38D
          Rivendell dweller
        28. 39D
          Gator or Power, for two
        29. 41D
          Secure method for logging into Windows
        30. 42D
          Began to make sense
        31. 44D
          Donald of "Scrubs"
        32. 45D
          Badge
        33. 46D
          Understudy's aspiration
        34. 49D
          British streetcar
        35. 50D
          Dynamic start?
        36. 51D
          Hand in Havana
        37. 52D
          Merit badge holder
        38. 53D
          Up to it
        39. 54D
          Get the ball rolling?
        40. 55D
          Stage award from "The Village Voice"
        41. 56D
          Summers on the Seine?
        42. 58D
          Undesirable thing to find in your hair
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          The loneliest number, per a Harry Nilsson song
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