Breaking the Internet
◆ · By Brian Callahan
Constructor's Note
This week's AVCX Classic puzzle is a "cheeky" offering from @kieranjboyd and myself. And...it can be yours for the low, low price of $1 (hit me up on Discord - I might even buy it for you
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).Thanks for solving! A full archive of my puzzles can be found at OlioGrids.com or at crosshare.org/oliogrids.
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Apple products with Mini and Nano models
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Across
- 1AApple products with Mini and Nano models
- 6AActress Suvari of "American Beauty," "American Virgin," and "American Pie"
- 10A"___ As I Wanna Be" (1996 Dennis Rodman autobiography)
- 13AMany a dish at the Cheesecake Factory, e.g.
- 16ACtrl+S command
- 17AThe American Dialect Society's 2023 "Word of the Year" meaning "the gradual degradation of an online platform or service's functionality, as part of a cycle in which the platform or service first offers benefits to users to attract them, then pursues more and more profits at the expense of users" (Dictionary.com)
- 19ANotion
- 20ASays "This was all my idea," say
- 21A"The Joy Luck Club" author Amy
- 22ASome carpenter jeans
- 23ATaters
Down
- 1DLock in a victory
- 2DBamboo-eating bear
- 3DSurname of either star of "It Takes Two," "Passport to Paris," and "Winning London"
- 4DPersian Gulf capital
- 5D___ Lanka
- 6DSlipknot genre
- 7DTwo-wheeler with a motor
- 8DLike ATMs at one's own bank, typically
- 9DNot quite right
- 10DChinese tech giant
- 11DSteer clear of
- 12DMakes an impression?
- 14DAddams Family cousin
- 15DSecretly include, in an email
- 16DDance move
- 18D"...kews, ___, esses..."