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• JeffsPuzzles 9:16 · 2025-05-08T12:53:24.231Z

  This was tough! I finished it with an error (CIC instead of OIC) then had to think about the revealer for a minute before I understood the trick. The concept is well-executed, but I'm not sure the revealer, even with literal in bold, gets the point across. Or it could just be that my morning coffee hasn't kicked in yet. Still a fun solve with some cool fill and cluing (I especially like the clue for TAT). Thanks!

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  • Moose Dixon costruttore · 2025-05-08T14:56:54.363Z

    Thanks for solving. I’m open to changing the revealer clue. What would you suggest?

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    • JeffsPuzzles 9:16 · 2025-05-08T17:59:22.416Z

      It's difficult because you'd have to get across the idea that the last word in the answer and then the first word follows under. I'm not coming up with anything better. It's quite possible other solvers won't have the same difficulty I did.

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      • Sendhil Revuluri 11:29 · 2025-05-08T19:48:48.047Z

        I had the same difficulty in the same place (as well as a couple other squares that didn't click for me but made sense right afterwards, which I take to mean they were great hard clues). Agree on TAT as well!

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• Moose Dixon costruttore · 2025-05-08T22:13:42.440Z

  @JeffsPuzzles @sendhil

  I changed the 57D clue to . Better or worse?

  ___ underneath, how 5D, 10D, 14D, 24D, and 27D should be parsed to make sense

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  • MaddAddams 37:26 · 2025-05-09T19:46:07.931Z

    I figured out the trick, solved most of the puzzle and then still got tripped up in the SE corner for a time. Didn't help that I was unfamiliar with 56D or 60A. I would normally expect 'UNDER' to be the solve, not the clue for a revealer

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• chickenhaiku 45:58 · 2025-05-08T23:05:48.937Z

  Waay too subtle for me. Even with Jeff's explanation, it took while to make sense of the themers.

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  • Moose Dixon costruttore · 2025-05-08T23:57:22.580Z

    Thanks for solving and sorry for the lack of clarity.

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• Shae 🤓26:03 · 2025-05-09T01:46:24.587Z

  I liked it, good challenge.

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  • Moose Dixon costruttore · 2025-05-09T02:48:51.672Z

    Thank you.

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• suppity 58:20 · 2025-05-09T07:17:41.326Z

  I thought making the revealer bold was a good solution! It clicked right away when I looked at the "underdog" clue.

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  • Moose Dixon costruttore · 2025-05-09T11:38:39.450Z

    Thank you. I’m glad the clue is easier to understand.

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• RitaInk 15:38 · 2025-05-09T12:03:40.403Z

  That was a tough one. It was good.

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  • Moose Dixon costruttore · 2025-05-09T12:29:11.719Z

    Thank you.

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• MrMegaGenesis 12:39 · 2025-05-10T15:32:06.070Z

  Got the better of me, but a good puzzle anyways!

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  • Moose Dixon costruttore · 2025-05-10T16:52:44.532Z

    Thank you. Tomorrow’s should be easier.

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