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◆ · By Cory Calhoun

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  • FrankieHeck 🤓7:59 · 2024-12-07T20:07:45.654Z
    Looks like I currently have 26 of your grids and 11 metas to go! Your themeless grids are playing out for me the way I think a great crossword should. I get maybe a fifth (or less? wild guess) of it filled in with the first pass. Then each following pass gives me a word or two. Not much, but just enough to give me another word or two the next time, and the next time, until I've managed to fill it all in without looking anything up, and then I feel smart. Somehow smarter than if it all came easily right away. If that makes sense.
    • Cory Calhoun constructor · 2024-12-07T22:23:42.654Z
      Dang, thanks, I'm flattered! Themelesses are the hardest to construct, because "everything is fill" yet "nothing is fill," so I try to make as many of the answers and clues as interesting as I can... but also to make them clean as possible, without too much obscure or difficult trivia, nor too many partials. I've submitted a few themelesses to LA Times in the past (they politely said no, but only because they're the hardest to get published, as the grid has to be super-spotless... no partials, very little obscure answers, etc.) So it's nice to hear this about my themelesses... I've definitely been working on them more over time, so grateful for the feedback! Cheers.
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    Letterman's grown a long one since retiring
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    Across
    1. 1A
      Letterman's grown a long one since retiring
    2. 6A
      They often accompany car models
    3. 11A
      Vietnamese noodle soup
    4. 14A
      More seasoned
    5. 15A
      Maine-to-Florida hwy.
    6. 16A
      Take a load off
    7. 17A
      Meaty Mexican meal
    8. 19A
      Arboreal "Lord of the Rings" creature
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      Free-speech rights org.
    10. 21A
      "I figured it out!"
    11. 22A
      Speedometer, e.g.
    12. 24A
      Bit of chemistry-class equipment
    13. 28A
      Old "This is only a test" org. replaced in 1997
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      Father figure?
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      They run between shows
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      Leave in a hurry
    17. 35A
      ___-retentive
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      Possessive pronoun
    19. 38A
      "The Good Wife"'s Carrie or "The Music Man"'s Robert
    20. 41A
      "And you?" in Acapulco
    21. 42A
      Prefix with -gon
    22. 44A
      Little troublemakers
    23. 45A
      Pre-Mayan civilization
    24. 47A
      Typos
    25. 49A
      "What was ___ was saying?"
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      Light-reactive dyes used to find car-lubricant leaks
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      Kind of colony
    28. 56A
      D.C. setting
    29. 57A
      Polishes off
    30. 59A
      Song syllable
    31. 60A
      Miraculously ... or how things are meant to appear when saying what's in this puzzle's circles
    32. 64A
      The Beavers of the Pac-12, briefly
    33. 65A
      Ivy League school, informally
    34. 66A
      Jovovich of the "Resident Evil" films
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      Bit of butter
    36. 68A
      Display
    37. 69A
      What 'do' "is," in song
    Down
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      Fett in "The Mandalorian"
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      Common word on yard signs
    3. 3D
      Artist with the best-selling album of the 21st century
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      Stood firm, perhaps
    5. 5D
      "___ and the Women" (2000 Richard Gere film)
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      Chinese pork option
    7. 7D
      Take ___ at (try)
    8. 8D
      Campground franchise letters
    9. 9D
      Butt
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      Neptune or Poseidon, e.g.
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      Richard Bachman for Stephen King, e.g.
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      Meetup via an app based on mutual Facebook friendships
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      Web-footed mammal
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      Breakfast staple
    15. 23D
      Jessica of "Sin City"
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      Recipe abbr.
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      Polishes
    18. 27D
      Xbox space-war series of games
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      However, briefly
    20. 31D
      The other way around
    21. 32D
      Sally Ride or Mae Jemison, e.g.
    22. 33D
      "Fine, stay angry"
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      Egyptian cobra
    24. 36D
      "Star Trek: TNG"'s Jean-___ Picard
    25. 39D
      ___ Ora, British singer on Iggy Azalea's "Black Widow"
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      "Don't look at me!"
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      Soprano's song, maybe
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      Concert depicted in the film "Bohemian Rhapsody"
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      Soothes, as one's fears
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      ___-bitty
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      "High-five!"
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      Put off until later
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      "Life ___ a dream"
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      Two under par
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      Subway or stadium entrance feature
    36. 58D
      Traumatize
    37. 61D
      Drain
    38. 62D
      U.N. working-conditions agcy. founded in 1969
    39. 63D
      Combat sport in a cage, briefly
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