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Growing Week: Saturday (Themeless)

◆◆ · By SporcleMirror · Published 2022-08-20T13:12:41.109Z

Constructor's Note
6D 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.
Checking for previous play data...

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  • SporcleMirror constructor · 2022-08-20T13:44:17.060Z
    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.
    • spikeydlux 10:57 · 2022-08-20T22:23:30.141Z
      NW corner really troubled me and I loved all of the AHAs as I revealed and checked. Great puz!
      • kieranjboyd 🤓13:17 · 2022-08-20T23:23:50.797Z
        I shouldn't've attempted this first thing in the morning, but it was still a lot of fun!
        Lots of great clues: 20A, 24A, 39A, 30D. Dory's literacy really is weird, isn't it? And glad February's midi theme was appreciated!. :)
        Thanks for the week of puzzles!
        • SporcleMirror constructor · 2022-08-21T04:16:23.148Z
          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.
          • kieranjboyd 🤓13:17 · 2022-08-21T10:20:48.115Z
            I was wondering why the boss had come early!
        • Sommersmith 🤓17:42 · 2022-08-21T15:00:23.900Z
          Whew that was a workout! By the end I was confident about the whole puzzle except the ALDA/TEA crossing. Luckily running through the alphabet to fill the last square didn't take long!
          • SporcleMirror constructor · 2022-08-21T15:26:55.814Z
            The TEA 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 ALDA clue is… straight up cryptic (mortAL DAnger)
          • JeffsPuzzles 🤓6:26 · 2022-08-21T19:19:08.435Z
            Great clues on 3D and 10D, and I also like the clue on ACES. Fun puzzle!
            • SporcleMirror constructor · 2022-08-22T00:38:45.809Z
              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.
            • Adam 10:31 · 2022-08-26T19:41:30.007Z
              I love the clues in this!
              • kurtalert 16:05 · 2022-09-30T15:23:00.188Z
                rode the strugglebus on a handful of these - tricky!
                Play today's daily mini crossword
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                ____ awkward
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                Across
                1. 1A
                  ____ awkward
                2. 9A
                  Stay in touch with?
                3. 13A
                  Words introducing a "concessive statement" (this one's for grammar nerds)
                4. 14A
                  Wax the wrong way?
                5. 15A
                  What you have to locate in the most popular Sporcle quiz of all time
                6. 16A
                  Actor in mortal danger?
                7. 17A
                  Critter that sounds like money
                8. 18A
                  Cozy room
                9. 19A
                  Cake's clichéd "secret ingredient"
                10. 20A
                  Lacy wear
                11. 22A
                  They're made up of blades
                12. 24A
                  They're often in good hands
                13. 26A
                  March Madness org.
                14. 28A
                  Poetic tribute
                15. 29A
                  Queenly title?
                16. 32A
                  Gust preceder?
                17. 33A
                  God that a racy literary genre is named after
                18. 34A
                  Miserable condition in a saying
                19. 35A
                  Short-tempered
                20. 37A
                  Rhino's weapon
                21. 39A
                  SPD in role-playing games, e. g. (quite fittingly)
                22. 40A
                  ___ X or ___ Z
                23. 41A
                  Take letters
                24. 44A
                  Dart
                25. 45A
                  Print shop worker
                26. 47A
                  It was quite a fitting theme for Crosshare's mid-February midi crossword contest
                27. 48A
                  Like Dory in "Finding Nemo" (because plot reasons, I guess)
                28. 49A
                  Natives who call themselves "Núuchi-u" ("the people")
                29. 50A
                  Appearing impossibly tall, in a way
                Down
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                  Earlobe ornament
                2. 2D
                  Very, emphatically
                3. 3D
                  Affected by shifts?
                4. 4D
                  TV cousin whose name sounds like a pronoun
                5. 5D
                  Latino's barbecue
                6. 6D
                  Crossword answer such as "PASTDUE" or "AFTERHOURS"?
                7. 7D
                  Charge that's on the house
                8. 8D
                  Apt units to measure your front lawn, for short
                9. 9D
                  Be in store
                10. 10D
                  Creature that doesn't need food or water, but does need air
                11. 11D
                  Upsetting individual?
                12. 12D
                  "___ if by sea"
                13. 19D
                  Word before "party" or "finger"
                14. 21D
                  Prez whose middle initial is just an initial and doesn't stand for anything
                15. 22D
                  Records that have to do with criminals and not musicians, despite the name
                16. 23D
                  Leaves in stitches
                17. 24D
                  Does some series math
                18. 25D
                  Arcade machine feature
                19. 27D
                  One of Kirby's friends, who is an owl (and not a dove or a pigeon)
                20. 30D
                  Number after six
                21. 31D
                  Reply with 🤣 to sad news, say
                22. 36D
                  Some spreads
                23. 38D
                  Technical grammar term that can describe the "cr" in "cross" or the "w" in "word"
                24. 40D
                  Canine shower
                25. 42D
                  Groening or Damon
                26. 43D
                  Odd bits
                27. 44D
                  Apt rhyme for "ACHOO!"
                28. 45D
                  Arafat's resistance org. found within "deployment"
                29. 46D
                  Part of the "teardrop of India"'s name
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