Thursday, June 18, 2026

Mind-reading scan, in a way / THU 6-18-26 / Bona fide numbskull / Employee after working hours, on "Severance" / Chemical agent used to make frosted glass / Follower of "4" on a love note / Adrenaline surge providers / Big name in archery equipment / Chemical agent used to make frosted glass

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Constructor: Scott Hogan Relative difficulty: Easy THEME:  remedial cryptic clues  — theme clues are words referred to (cryptically) by t...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

British glam rock band of the 1970s / WED 6-17-26 / Rival of a Raven / Folkie DiFranco / Disney film set in a fictional Colombian village / Like Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, some say / Casino maneuvers carried out three times in this puzzle? / Fast-paced scam, such as the shell game / "___ the Day" (Thomas Pynchon's longest novel) / "Just What I Needed" band, with "the" / Geraldo Rivera uncovered his "vaults" on live TV

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Constructor: Jonathan Raksin Relative difficulty: Medium-Challenging [5D: Disney+ series whose name sounds like a compound conjunction = ...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Ancient Brit for whom a language was named / TUE 6-17-26 / Bluffer's giveaway / Very muscular, in slang / Like an image just begging to be captioned and shared / Charitable contributions, collectively / College-credit class that says sayonara to H.S.? / Crustaceans sometimes called "mudbugs" / Open some bubbly with a bang

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Constructor: Brad Lively Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: The OLD MAN AND THE SEA (36A: Hemingway tale about an elderly fisherma...
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Monday, June 15, 2026

Soft, warm, tingly feeling, in brief / MON 6-15-26 / Certain group of hip-hop performers / Cash crop of northern Brazil / Response to a series of complaints / Device that helps you make a point in class? / Revolutionary kitchen gadget? / Toy likely to be found at a pop-up store?

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Constructor: Eric Rolfing Relative difficulty: Medium (solved Downs-only) THEME: "SOMEBODY'S CRANKY" (59A: Response to a s...
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Sunday, June 14, 2026

End of a redundant legal doublet / SUN 6-14-26 / Fireball-throwing demons from Doom / Female-friendly fandom event / Asian rice porridge / Tom ___, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" satirist / Viola score symbol / Fast food chain whose name has two hyphens / Sam who putted croquet style until the U.S.G.A. banned it / 2023 Nobel-winning physicist L'Huillier / What a modest play has in common withe the answer to each italicized clue? / Jam band with a Ben & Jerry's flavor / Appropriately misspelled genre for Korn and Limp Bizkit

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Constructor: John Kugelman Relative difficulty: Medium THEME: "Limited Runs" — nonsense phrases made out of a "limited...
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