Showing posts with label jake halperin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jake halperin. Show all posts
Monday, January 22, 2024

Trait of the fabled fisherman's wife / MON 1-22-24 / Inexperienced gamer, informally / British publishing house founded in 1935 / Bodily response to something eerie

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Constructor: Jake Halperin Relative difficulty: Medium (with one particularly hard part for this Downs-only solver) THEME: BIRDS AND BEE...
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Thursday, February 24, 2022

Both consonants in "geek" phonetically / THU 2-24-22 / Parties with smokers / Emulate the Lonely Goatherd / One observing the holiday of Arba'een / Montgomery retired WNBA star / Particle with a superscript / Band with first platinum-selling double album

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Constructor: Jake Halperin Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: doubled letters — two-word answers that become self-descriptive when...
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Thursday, August 12, 2021

It's found near a trap / THU 8-12-2021 / Sch. with a campus in Narragansett / Michelle who was FIFA's Female Player of the Century / It was once sold medically under the commercial name Delysid / Home to the oldest continuously functioning university in the Americas (since 1551) / Channel with the slogan "Boom."

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Constructor:  Jake Halperin Relative difficulty:  medium (slightly tipsy 3:45) THEME: CALLS IT LIKE IT IS [ What each asterisked clue'...
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Thursday, April 8, 2021

Galactic conquerors of film / THU 4-8-21 / Second staff in many an orchestral score / Emerald is a variant of it / 2003 #1 Outkast hit / Drink originally called blanc-cassis / Futuristic delivery device / Physics Nobelist who developed an early model of the atom

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Constructor: Jake Halperin Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: boating puns — yes, you read that correctly; actually, it's ...
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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Memorable launch of April 11, 1970 / THU 12-3-20 / College named after a Scottish island / 2007 heist film sequel / Parenthetical comment after an ambiguous witticism

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Constructor: Jake Halperin Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium (untimed) THEME: UNLUCKY BREAK (57A: Bad fortune ... as suggested by 19-, 30...
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Thursday, February 6, 2020

Domination in slang / THU 2-6-20 / Fragrance since 1932 / Title partner of Hobbs in hit 2019 film / In Old Mexico In Old Santa Fe / Target for holistic healing / Portmanteau fruit / Port SSE of Suez Canal / Travel for bigheaded person

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Constructor: Jake Halperin Relative difficulty: Medium, I think (time was somewhere in the 7s, but I was going slowly, taking notes, so ...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Cost-controlling W.W. II org / WED 12-11-19 / Grease song with aonomatopoeic lyrics / Australian wind instrument / Penner of line language is wine upon lips / Fiesta finger food

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Constructor: Jake Halperin Relative difficulty: Medium (?) (solved on paper) THEME: THEN AND NOW (62A: Phrase in an article on gr...
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