Growing Week: Saturday (Themeless)
◆◆ · By SporcleMirror · Published 2022-08-20T13:12:41.109Z
Constructor's Note
6D6DCrossword answer such as "PASTDUE" or "AFTERHOURS"?[---------] is another one of those phrases in the Crosshare database with no clue suggestions. Crossings should be fair.
The final boss. NOT recommended for new solvers.
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- So here's quite a strange coincidence... RAPSHEET was in yesterday's "Twice Weekly" puzzle by @wordswithwally. This grid was already fully constructed before the puzzle went live, so that was a completely accidental gimme for me.
- NW corner really troubled me and I loved all of the AHAs as I revealed and checked. Great puz!
- I shouldn't've attempted this first thing in the morning, but it was still a lot of fun!Lots of great clues: 20A20ALacy wear[----], 24A24AThey're often in good hands[----], 39A39ASPD in role-playing games, e. g. (quite fittingly)[----], 30D30DNumber after six[----]. Dory's literacy really is weird, isn't it? And glad February's midi theme was appreciated!. :)Thanks for the week of puzzles!
- The “for plot reasons” part of the clue has to do with when they find the mask that says “P. SHERMAN - 42 WALLABY WAY - SYDNEY”, I guess they would have no idea where to go look for Nemo if Dory couldn’t read.And while I did call this “the final boss” it’s not because it’s the last puzzle in this mini series, I still have a 15x15 to release as the Sunday puzzle. It’s just that this one is WAAAAY harder than the other 6, similarly to how the NYT works with Saturday vs Sunday difficulty.
- Whew that was a workout! By the end I was confident about the whole puzzle except the ALDA16AActor in mortal danger?[----]/TEA12D"___ if by sea"[---] crossing. Luckily running through the alphabet to fill the last square didn't take long!
- The TEA12D"___ if by sea"[---] clue is some kind of mnemonic about the word for “tea” in different languages (I think I’ve seen it in some other crossword). The ALDA16AActor in mortal danger?[----] clue is… straight up cryptic (mortAL DAnger)
- Great clues on 3D3DAffected by shifts?[-------------] and 10D10DCreature that doesn't need food or water, but does need air[-------------], and I also like the clue on ACES24AThey're often in good hands[----]. Fun puzzle!
- Seriously, this puzzle has only 5 completions without check/reveal, and the average time is 19:26. So it looks like you just crushed it! I need to know how you did that.
- kurtalert 16:05 · 2022-09-30T15:23:00.188Zrode the strugglebus on a handful of these - tricky!
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- 1A____ awkward
- 9AStay in touch with?
- 13AWords introducing a "concessive statement" (this one's for grammar nerds)
- 14AWax the wrong way?
- 15AWhat you have to locate in the most popular Sporcle quiz of all time
- 16AActor in mortal danger?
- 17ACritter that sounds like money
- 18ACozy room
- 19ACake's clichéd "secret ingredient"
- 20ALacy wear
- 22AThey're made up of blades
- 24AThey're often in good hands
- 26AMarch Madness org.
- 28APoetic tribute
- 29AQueenly title?
- 32AGust preceder?
- 33AGod that a racy literary genre is named after
- 34AMiserable condition in a saying
- 35AShort-tempered
- 37ARhino's weapon
- 39ASPD in role-playing games, e. g. (quite fittingly)
- 40A___ X or ___ Z
- 41ATake letters
- 44ADart
- 45APrint shop worker
- 47AIt was quite a fitting theme for Crosshare's mid-February midi crossword contest
- 48ALike Dory in "Finding Nemo" (because plot reasons, I guess)
- 49ANatives who call themselves "Núuchi-u" ("the people")
- 50AAppearing impossibly tall, in a way
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- 1DEarlobe ornament
- 2DVery, emphatically
- 3DAffected by shifts?
- 4DTV cousin whose name sounds like a pronoun
- 5DLatino's barbecue
- 6DCrossword answer such as "PASTDUE" or "AFTERHOURS"?
- 7DCharge that's on the house
- 8DApt units to measure your front lawn, for short
- 9DBe in store
- 10DCreature that doesn't need food or water, but does need air
- 11DUpsetting individual?
- 12D"___ if by sea"
- 19DWord before "party" or "finger"
- 21DPrez whose middle initial is just an initial and doesn't stand for anything
- 22DRecords that have to do with criminals and not musicians, despite the name
- 23DLeaves in stitches
- 24DDoes some series math
- 25DArcade machine feature
- 27DOne of Kirby's friends, who is an owl (and not a dove or a pigeon)
- 30DNumber after six
- 31DReply with
to sad news, say - 36DSome spreads
- 38DTechnical grammar term that can describe the "cr" in "cross" or the "w" in "word"
- 40DCanine shower
- 42DGroening or Damon
- 43DOdd bits
- 44DApt rhyme for "ACHOO!"
- 45DArafat's resistance org. found within "deployment"
- 46DPart of the "teardrop of India"'s name
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