Words: 24 (9×9)
Average Length: 5.33
Hot peppers, hot cars, and two really cool places, along with some quirky clues. Enjoy!
Category: Themeless
1 Across was the seed for this one. Sandy and I were watching American Idol, for which Jelly Roll is acting as a mentor. Knowing nothing about Jelly Roll, I looked up what genre he mostly works in, and voilà – there’s 1 Across.
A couple of other notes: In Ecuador, they sometimes make 3 Down with popcorn. I’m a popcorn fan – it’s dinner, often enough – but not in conjunction with 3 Down. And, as promised in the note to the puzzle, here’s a link to My Back Pages.
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Themeless 101
Words: 72
Average Length: 5.25
19 and 52 Across were the seeds, 19 because it exists and is funny, and 52 for the clue. (The 52 Across answer was going to be part of a themed puzzle with the clue as the revealer, but I couldn’t come up with enough theme entries.)
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Themeless 100
Words: 70
Average Length: 5.40
A century of themelesses! (Hopefully it doesn’t feel like it takes that long to solve them ….) The seeds for this one were 6 Down (a joke I heard an Australian comedian tell last year) and 17 Down (I don’t remember where I came across the term, but I love it!).
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Themeless 99
Words: 72
Average Length: 5.36
I couldn’t construct my 99th themeless without using 20 Across as a seed! Then came the parallel entries at 4 Down and 26 Down and at 11 Down and 33 Down. Have fun!
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Themeless 98
Words: 72
Average Length: 5.25
The two grid-spanners were the seeds for this moderately challenging themeless. If you’ve never heard the song clued at 35 Across, here’s a link. It’s gorgeous.
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Themeless 97
Words: 40 (11×11)
Average Length: 5.15
The seeds for this midi were 20 Across (for giving new meaning to “political science”) and 5 Down. The latter came about because a couple of days ago, I heard an achingly beautiful cover by Kelly Clarkson, which you can listen to here. (I couldn’t resist the title, which is a mash-up of 5 Down and 15 Across.)
I know that politics is creeping into my clues, but with the creeps currently in charge of our country, I feel justified in shooting metaphorical barbs from time to time.
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