Sunday, July 6, 2025

Popular chocolate biscuit from Down Under / SUN 7-6-25 / Mario's dinosaur sidekick / Trickster of Greek myth / Closest world capital to Miami / Onetime wealthiest family in Europe / Typical patty melt specification / Breaking maneuver / Of extremely unreliable quality, in slang / "Midnight's Children" author, 1981 / Word with bullet or toilet / Philosopher who wrote "The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape"

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Constructor: Zhou Zhang and Kevin Curry Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: "Escape Room" — the puzzle is modeled on an e...
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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Record-keeping device made of strings and knots / SAT 7-5-25 / Glass production / Brendon of Panic! at the Disco / French musician/composer ___ Tiersen / Fortnite developer / Dance move that slid into English as "sashay" / Getting in one guess, as Wordle / Subject of the books "Jonathan Loves David" and "Take Back the Word" / Dance move that slid into English as "sashay" / Eerie phenomenon when a robot seems too lifelike

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Constructor: Tracy Bennett Relative difficulty: Medium THEME: none   Word of the Day: QUIPU  ( 46D: Record-keeping device made of stri...
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Friday, July 4, 2025

The "p" in Paddington Station? / FRI 7-4-25 / What comes before B? / Gossip, informally / Rapper who won his first Grammy with "King's Disease" / Hefty herbivore / RIghtmost column on the periodic table / Tree goop / Put a pilot back into action? / Nickname for basketball's Mike Krzyzewski

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Constructor: Colin Adams Relative difficulty: Easy  THEME: none   Word of the Day: CHIN  ( 50D: Gossip, informally ) — intransitive ve...
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Thursday, July 3, 2025

State park in the Santa Monica Mountains / THU 7-3-25 / Portuguese currency before the euro / Swerve, as an airplane / Pac-Man ghost with the shortest name / Losing roll in a casino / School of higher learning, in Britain / House cry that sounds like a horse cry

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Constructor: Adam Wagner Relative difficulty: Easy THEME:  BLINKERS (60A: Directional signals that flash on and off, as suggested by the ...
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