Total | Debut | Latest | Collabs |
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57 | 2/20/2006 | 10/13/2024 | 35 |
Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Variety |
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6 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 18 | 3 |
Rebus | Scrab | Debut | Fresh |
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3 | 1.62 | 263 | 68% |
BRAD:
The old adage of "good longer stacks start with the stacking of useful shorter stems" was especially true here, as I realized ONLINE went nicely atop GOLDEN, and what remained was to pick compatible tails. Doug liked LIE DETECTOR in the stack and added MALL COP; he's also responsible for those two great clues.
We tried a few design configurations in the middle and realized we'd have to have some long vertical entries too or the word count would tip over into 72 or 74. BOXER BRIEFS won out over other –EFS we tried. I had just been doing some work in the trenches at the end of the alphabet on my word list, so new addition WAX TABLET helped matters a lot, facilitating ___ FAMILY.
And we had to decide whether or not to have the vertical 15s, rather than going with SEWELL or NEWELL or LOWELL or whatever. TO A FARE-THEE-WELL had actually been on my list of possible seed entries. But did we ever take some ribbing for it (fewer people seemed to recognize it than I expected) — and since the puzzle appeared the Saturday before Lollapuzzoola, some of the ribbing was in person! Still, I think this was a grid most solvers were quite happy with.
1 S | 2 O | 3 T | 4 H | 5 A | 6 B | 7 E | 8 R | 9 D | 10 A | 11 S | 12 H | 13 E | 14 R |
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15 W | H | O | 16 O | N | C | L | O | U | D | N | I | N | E |
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17 E | P | A | 18 R | I | C | K | Y | N | E | L | S | O | N |
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19 E | L | F | 20 M | A | N | 21 H | A | N | S | 22 M | R | T |
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23 T | E | A | R | S | 24 B | A | L | E | 25 K | A | M | A |
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26 S | A | R | I | 27 W | O | R | F | 28 A | N | S | E | L |
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29 O | S | E | 30 W | A | X | T | A | 31 B | L | E | T | |||
32 P | E | T | 33 M | I | C | E | 34 M | A | E | W | E | 35 S | 36 T |
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37 H | I | T | O | R | 38 M | I | S | S | 39 R | P | I |
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40 G | 41 O | E | T | H | 42 B | A | L | K | 43 M | S | R | P |
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44 A | R | E | A | 45 O | R | L | Y | 46 T | I | V | O | S |
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47 S | S | W | 48 G | A | I | L | 49 W | O | N | O | U | T |
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50 L | I | E | 51 D | E | T | E | C | 52 T | O | R | 53 I | T | E |
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54 O | N | L | I | N | E | F | O | R | U | M | 55 C | U | R |
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56 G | O | L | D | E | N | S | P | I | K | E | 57 E | P | S |
Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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