Showing posts with label Ashton Anderson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ashton Anderson. Show all posts
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Alpine folk dress / SAT 3-26-22 / Ostinato provider in Ravel's Bolero / Sight from Maui's west shore / Classic song with the line Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci And lots of wavy hair like Liberace / Repeated voice role for Steve Carell / Horizontal group hug session

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Constructor: Ashton Anderson and James Mulhern Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: none   Word of the Day: Charles ALSTON  ( 38D: ...
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Friday, October 15, 2021

Crowdsourced Q&A site / FRI 10-15-21 / Composer Anton who used the 12-tone technique / Main component in the Chinese street food jianbing / Classic neo-grotesque typeface / Candy cooked until it reaches the hard-crack stage / Children's classic originally written in German / Zippy resort rental

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Constructor: Ashton Anderson Relative difficulty: Medium THEME: none   Word of the Day: jianbing  ( 23D: Main component in the Chi8nes...
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Friday, November 13, 2020

Ancient undeciphered writing system / FRI 11-13-20 / Wikipedia articles that need expanding / Hijiki or arame in Japanese restaurant / Successful shot from downtown in basketball lingo / Prominent feature of babirusa deer-pig

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Constructor: Sawyer Tabony and Ashton Anderson Relative difficulty:  Easy-Medium (high 5s, w/ sleep still in my eyes) THEME: none   Word...
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Friday, June 23, 2017

Baby animal in parable in II Samuel / FRI 6-23-17 / Subject of 1984 mockumentary / Edible seed of pumpkin squash / Verdi opera set in fifth century

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Constructor: James Mulhern and Ashton Anderson Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: none   Word of the Day: PERCALE ( 20D: ...
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Friday, July 31, 2015

Lower leg woe, slangily / FRI-7-31-15 / Turn awkward, as a relationship / "reading room"

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Constructors: James Mulhern and Ashton Anderson Relative difficulty: Easy, I bet, but I was getting up and making martinis and drinking ...
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Lakers commentator Lantz / SAT 12-13-14 / Mackerel variety on Hawaiian menus / 1958 #1 hit whose only lyric is its title word / Title girl in literature's Prairie Trilogy / Fashion designer Knowles mother of Beyoncé / Anderson of sitcomdom / Kebabs sold curbside

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Constructor: James Mulhern and Ashton Anderson Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: none Word of the Day: Langston Hughes...
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Friday, August 1, 2014

Ultra 93 vendor / FRI 8-1-14 / Winner of inaugural Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent / First talking pet in American comics / Boorish member of Round Table / First substitute on basketball bench / Indian novelist Raja / It means sulfur island in Japanese / Deity with more than 16000 wives / Catchphrase for paranoid

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Constructor: Ashton Anderson and James Mulhern Relative difficulty: Medium THEME: none Word of the Day: AI WEIWEI   ( 16A: Winner...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

1996 Rhett Akins country hit / SAT 4-5-14 / Cro-Magnon orphan of literature / Debut Peter Tosh album rallying cry for pot smokers / Internet traffic statistics company / Fictional home five miles from Jonesboro / Singer with 1996 triple-platinum album Tidal / Historical figure aka Marse Robert / Lodging portmanteau / While all artists are not chess players all chess players are artists

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Constructor: Ashton Anderson and James Mulhern Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium (also possibly anywhere from Medium to Challenging, depe...
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Friday, December 28, 2012

Birthplace of Natalie Portman / FRI 12-28-12 / Sabre ou pistolet / Failure of imagination per Graham Greene / Like bars that are often near horses / Hard to block jumper in hoops / Quaker makers / Critter with humanlike fingerprints / Brandy alternative / Pale Blue Dot author / Spitfire landing locale

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Constructor: Ashton Anderson Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: none Word of the Day: JEJUNE  ( 1D: Dull ) — Not inte...
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