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6 puzzles by David W. Tuffs
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Sun 3/12/2023 This and That
REPELSWAPBOPJABAT
IRULEPOCOCUBAOLLIE
GIRLSCOUTLEADERSTORE
ICEEMINIANDSOHOOF
DABFOLDINGTHELAUNDRY
RAINSALIAERABAO
LEIFFINEBEEBAND
WEDDINGCRASHERATONCE
RODEORCASOPAHURKEL
ANODYNECREVASSE
PEGHEAVENONEARTHHOT
GETSEVENPAYHIKE
COCOAERINASSETAGRA
ABHORSBLACKFORESTHAM
BARNABSARODPEAS
AMYOILPESOIBARS
LASTPLACEFINISHESALI
CLOTSETINNEERAKON
TREKSTABLOIDMAGAZINE
MARYIISEEMUIRCUTER
ITSONTEDPSSTALERT

David Tuffs, of Pacific Grove, Calif., is a master's student in Linguistics at the University of California Santa Cruz. He's writing a thesis on negative verb forms in Mixtec, an Indigenous language in Mexico. To find potential theme answers for this puzzle, he used Java and a database of English phrases, then worked to get the most elegant examples. This is David's sixth puzzle, and second Sunday, for The Times.

Wed 11/9/2022
GRANSKIMSJEST
OOPSTITANEXPO
FATALATTRACTION
ADEIRKGOTTI
SISTERACTMAPLE
TETETARTOER
TABREYNOLDS
TOTALRECALL
ICANTSEEOBI
ALPSARAVAMP
NADALDAREDEVIL
VANESETEIRE
SINGININTHERAIN
PECSIDAHOPRAT
FRETPAPASMYMY
Thu 8/11/2022
BLOCASAPATARI
MATTBRIDEMELON
WITHOUTSINBAILS
SCOURGEENLISTEE
LABGUESTHOST
MATHLETEDIO
OAHUARTOOOPAL
THEBREADPANDIE
SOLISTOICBERT
EGOWETNOSES
FIREBRANDFAX
ADORABLEOATCAKE
CABINTRANSLATED
THINKEVICTROTI
SONGSREDDSPOT
Sun 4/10/2022 ORDERING SECONDS
HOTTAMALETAFFYCSPAN
ASIAMINOREMILEOPERA
ROCKIDOLSMOVIETROPES
ESSEWISEPREPOGRES
MIENSTEPSONIT
POWERSTRIPMIRYSAL
ISHITSAMESSDEADSPOT
VSIGNESCAPEESIHEAR
OILPALMKNEXSTORMY
TEESIMDBKLUMESPYS
PEANUTALLERGY
JADENCLAPTHOUBAMA
SAVORSGRUBWETONES
INLETEGYPTIANWOODY
SEASHORESTONEAGEDIE
TBTDIMEMIDDLESEAT
OPENSPACERIDE
HIALLTIERISITTOME
MENTALLAPSEBLACKSTAR
PREENATEITMANHATTAN
GAZESGENRESTAYLOOSE

David W. Tuffs, of Pacific Grove, Calif., is a fourth-year linguistics student at the University of California Santa Cruz. In his spare time he writes for his school's satirical newspaper, Fishrap Live!

This is his third crossword for The Times, and his first Sunday. Planning the theme involved "manually sifting through endless lists" of words — which sounds tedious, but he enjoyed doing it.

Wed 10/20/2021
EMSGALCHIAPET
SAIDIDOHENDRIX
ORLANDOORALIST
BREDISPOWEN
EINSSEAMARGUE
SETFANTASYLAX
ODDJOBACTMEET
ORANGERED
SHOTBAOEASTLA
TOVVAINESTRAW
PIECEFINSKAVA
RIGAARFAVER
ORDEALSORCHARD
DIURNALLEONINE
EMBASSYLEXLEE
POW Thu 9/2/2021
ADDEDODDSAMPLE
DRONELIEOBERON
ZENGARDENWIDEST
AKAASTINDINER
IMIGHTPROSECUTE
CONEYFIONAIPO
ENGAWOLGINS
STABLEMATE
JOTSVINGSRO
YERTPAINUPTON
WEATHEREDAYEAYE
HONDAONEALTSA
IMLATEENDLESSLY
NEUTERACESPEWS
ENCASESENPANEL
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