Showing posts with label Jeffrey Wechsler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeffrey Wechsler. Show all posts
Monday, August 12, 2019

Sharp's counterpart / MON 8-12-19 / Image in Jurassic Park logo informally / Mountaineering spike

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Constructor: Jeffrey Wechsler Relative difficulty: Medium (2:59) THEME: O, B — all the themers begin with the sounds of those le...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Eponymous physicist Ernst / WED 3-13-19 / Mythical figure known for ribaldry / Legendary Manhattan music club / Lineage-based women's grp

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Constructor: Jeffrey Wechsler Relative difficulty: Medium (oversized 16x15 grid, 4:46) THEME: OBLIQUE REFERENCE (60A: Indirect co...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Old Chevy model renamed Sonic / WED 9-12-18 / Literally small ovens / Literally thousand leaf / Attribute for my girl after five foot two in 1920s tune / Historic political visitor to Pearl Harbor on 12/27/16 / Like about 17% of land in Holland

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Constructor: Jeffrey Wechsler Relative difficulty: Challenging (5:23) (3rd slowest recorded Wednesday since April) THEME:  FRENCH ...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Alice's cat in Through Looking Glass / WED 6-20-18 / Small Eurasian songbird / Goes by livery taxi / Firecracker goes in one / Religious leader usually sporting beard / Real dogs eat meat sloganeer

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Constructor: Jeffrey Wechsler Relative difficulty: Medium (4:59, slowish for me, but I'm getting over a cold and my eyes are dry and...
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Thursday, July 27, 2017

Game animals to some / THU 7-27-17 / Out of place obstetric / Nabisco brand since 1912 / Genre for Philip K. Dick / Singer DiFranco / Cleopatra's Mines / Right-hand page / Sunshine Skyway Bridge / "Wind in the Willows" creature / "Playboy of the Western World" playwright

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Constructor: Jeffrey Wechsler Relative difficulty: Medium (10:00 exactly) THEME: HOLD DOWN THE FORT -- three across entries ...
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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Why Japanese tipplers anticipate afterlife / THU 4-20-17 / Designation for UK vessels / 1952 Bernard Malamud novel / Organic jewelry material

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Constructor: Jeffrey Wechsler Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: Eh? — familiar phrases are clued as if one of their silent...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Early historian of ancient Rome / WED 3-22-17 / Fresh air's opposite / Kid's transport literally / Present location when visiting boondocks / Figure of underground economy / like n r phonetics / brief period in nuclear physics / big brand of kitchen knives

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Constructor: Jeffrey Wechsler Relative difficulty: Me dium-Challenging (theme easy, fill ... ?) THEME: "litera l" depic...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Batman villain known as queen of cossacks / THU 9-22-16 / Palazzo architectural gem of Renaissance / Summit on Crete where Zeus was born

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Constructor: Je ffrey Wechsler Relative difficulty: Medium THEME: puns involving foreign numbers — Theme answers: SEPT PIE...
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Bygone Ottoman rulers / THU 1-14-16 / Immortal flower in Paradise Lost / Dog attacking newsstand / Longtime Law order actor / Boyfriend singer to fans / Features of urban ancient Rome

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Constructor: Jeffrey Wechsler Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: THE BEATLES ( 53A: Group whose songs get spoonerized in 1...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Tourist island in Gulf of Naples / WED 5-13-15 / Marijuana psychoactive component / Donna of Clinton's cabinet / Piedmont wine / Akio who co-founded Sony / Alternative to boeuf or jambon / Bake as shelled egg / Eyelashes scientifically / zoom zoom sloganeer

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Constructor: Jeffrey Wechsler Relative difficulty:  Easy THEME: ORSON WELLES  ( 61A: Noted director/actor born in May 1915 ) — hi...
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