Words: 74
Average Length: 5.14
As befits the title/theme, I jammed this grid chock-full of theme entries. I hope you find it tasty and satisfying!
Category: Themed
Words: 12 (6×6)
Average Length: 5.50
Here’s a medium-difficulty grid with some elementary music theory and a Dolly Parton song that, in my opinion, is one of the best songs ever.
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I just learned the original puz link may be broken. If so, please try the alternate.
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Libra-rians
Words: 72
Average Length: 5.19
This one shouldn’t be too tough, but don’t fall! I was happy to work in 60 Across – my team’s glory days ended (temporarily, right?) four years ago, but they went out with a bang! And I just realized the unintentional but at least slightly amusing symmetry between 1 Across and 66 Across.
Words: 10
Average Length: 4.80
Don’t get lost in 1 Across. (“Danger, Will Robinson” – and if that means something to you, you’re at least as old as I am!) Please enjoy, and come back Sunday for a medium-difficulty themed puzzle.
[Photo: see 1D; taken in the Hungarian Parliament, July 2023]
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Rapturous Reading
Words: 70
Average Length: 5.34
I like books in the way Justice Kavanaugh likes beer. I read a hundred or so a year (not sure what % of his beer consumption that is, but it’s roughly 1000% of mine, being more of a Scotch aficionado). When I saw this marvelous quote from 34 Across I thought, as kids today, or yesterday, or possibly last month, say/said: “it me.” Hence the puzzle.
Words: 10
Average Length: 4.60
I guess I could have posted this in either April or September (as you’ll see once you solve), but as we are once again beset by smoky air, heat, and hurricanes, this is as good a time as any. If any solvers have personal knowledge that the clue for 5 Down is wrong, please let me know!
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Literally MMA
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English Muffing
Words: 74
Average Length: 5.00
English, notoriously, is a perverse language, where a word’s spelling may be an ambiguous guide to its pronunciation. Fertile fodder for this grid, as I hope you’ll agree.
Please check out my poetry site, It-Could-Be-Verse.com, and my travel blog, PuffinlessTravel.com!
Words: 11
Average Length: 4.73
I’ve seen this concept done as a word ladder, but a mini-puzzle doesn’t allow for such sleight of hand. Nothing fancy here; I clued 1 Down the way I did because that show perfected the technique of starting out fabulous, keeping it up for three seasons, then cratering. Just my opinion, of course.
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