Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Verdant privacy features / TUE 12-9-25 / Pigmented rings / Asahi Super Dry or Kirin Lager / Termites, for an aardwolf / Gossip, in slang / "Edie & ___: A Very Long Engagement" (2009 documentary) / Music app named for a figure in Greek myth

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Constructor: Kate Hawkins Relative difficulty:  Medium  THEME: HEDGEROWS (35A: Verdant privacy features ... or a punny description of the...
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Monday, December 8, 2025

Gesture suggesting "I see what you did there" / MON 12-8-25 / Wyoming skiing mecca / Center of a stone fruit / Stuff on an artist's palette

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Constructor: Dan Kammann and Zhouqin Burnikel Relative difficulty: Medium-Challenging (solved Downs-only) THEME: DIGIT (40A: Finger or t...
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Sunday, December 7, 2025

Future birthplace of Captain Kirk / SUN 12-7-25 / Sister to Lex Luthor / Arabic greeting and farewell / One chain x one furlong / A urinal, according to Duchamp / Solos at a party / Crazy Horse and fellow tribespeople / Russian crepes / Personification of England, Scotland and Wales / Trees commonly confused with birches / Bit of letter-shaped hardware / Farm-share program, for short / Alter, as a T-shirt for a Phish concert, say / It's often rapped but never spoken

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Constructor: Kate Jensen Relative difficulty:  Medium THEME: "Original Thinkers" — puns describing inventors or discoverers of...
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Saturday, December 6, 2025

Side effect after a BBQ meal, informally / SAT 12-6-25 / Having a good aura, in slang / Classic arcade game with a pyramid / Ratty is one in "The Wind in the Willows" / Portrayer of Glinda in 2024's "Wicked," to fans / Singer with the top 10 albums "Crash" and "Brat" / Warning preceding some "madness" during March Madness / Source of rhythm in electronic music / Title film character with a "lucky fin" / Chinese surname transliterating "Zuo"

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Constructor: Marshal Herrmann Relative difficulty: Easy THEME: none   Word of the Day: RENÉ Coty  ( 20D: Former French president ___ C...
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Friday, December 5, 2025

1944 Pacific battle site / FRI 12-5-25 / Home to Kotoka International Airport / Age at which you just learned something you should have realized before, facetiously / Mohamed ___, Egyptian soccer star / Subject of the Bouguereau painting "The Abduction of Pscyhe" / Image that's just over a foot, informally / Where much of "Brokeback Mountain" was filmed /

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Constructor: James McCarron Relative difficulty: Easy THEME: none   Word of the Day: LEYTE  ( 53A: 1944 Pacific battle site ) — Leyte ...
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