Constructed by: Aidan Deshong
Edited by: Will Shortz
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Today’s Reveal Answer: Minesweeper
We’re playing the classic videogame Minesweeper today, with “MINE” occupying some rebus squares. We also have numbers 1 and 2 in some black squares, telling us home many MINES touch those squares. Clever …
- 62A Classic computer game whose players avoid hazardous items in a grid … as suggested by this puzzle? : MINESWEEPER
- 17A How something distinctive appears : PROMINENTLY
- 22A Shortage of a sort : FAMINE
- 25A Cardinal’s honorific : HIS EMINENCE
- 44A Part of a list at an awards show : NOMINEE
- 69A Sabotage : UNDERMINE
- 4D Ad ___ : HOMINEM
- 24D Only video game to sell 300 million copies : MINECRAFT
- 26D Selfish cry before an evil laugh : MINE, ALL MINE!
- 49D Figure out : DETERMINE
- 53D On the horizon : IMMINENT
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Bill’s time: 12m 10s
Bill’s errors: 0
Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies
Apologies for my recent absences. I am travelling in Europe, somewhat unexpectedly. I will be doing my best to keep up with puzzles and posts, but might “go missing” occasionally until I get back home to California.
In the meantime, I will be trying to at least write these abbreviated posts.
Again, apologies, and thank you for your understanding.
Bill
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Complete List of Clues/Answers
Across
1A “That so?” or “Uh-huh, that’s so” : YEAH
5A Abbr. that often follows a comma : ETC
8A Hardly anyone counts on this anymore : ABACUS
14A Shakespearean villain : IAGO
15A Zip : NIL
16A Wine and dine : REGALE
17A How something distinctive appears : PROMINENTLY
19A Any member of a band dubbed “The President’s Own” : MARINE
20A Leveled the playing field, say? : MOWED
21A Fight night sites : ARENAS
22A Shortage of a sort : FAMINE
25A Cardinal’s honorific : HIS EMINENCE
27A Suppose : RECKON
29A Feel 41-Across : AIL
30A ___ Summitt, legendary women’s basketball coach : PAT
33A Asian city one can view within Instagram? : AGRA
34A Among others, for short : ET AL
37A Well-informed : AWARE
39A Writer Zora ___ Hurston : NEALE
41A See 29-Across : ILL
42A Its hands might be near one of yours : WATCH
43A Common daytime spots for first dates : CAFES
44A Part of a list at an awards show : NOMINEE
46A Biker’s selection : GEAR
47A Doc seen for sinusitis : ENT
48A Austin summer hrs. : CDT
50A Board meeting handout : AGENDA
52A Discusses at length : GOES INTO
55A Pin number? : TEN
56A Literary detective whose final case is in 1975’s “Curtain” : POIROT
59A Sounds heard in haunted houses : MOANS
61A What might prompt someone to close a window : UPDATE
62A Classic computer game whose players avoid hazardous items in a grid … as suggested by this puzzle? : MINESWEEPER
66A Eye, slangily : PEEPER
67A Actress Long : NIA
68A “You’ll ___” : LIVE
69A Sabotage : UNDERMINE
70A Lift a finger, so to speak : TRY
71A Output of a social media algorithm : FEED
Down
1D Sound from a puppy : YIP
2D Balance aid : EAR
3D What might come after many years? : AGO
4D Ad ___ : HOMINEM
5D Interweave : ENTWINE
6D Scrabble rackful : TILES
7D Half of a noted crime duo : CLYDE
8D Renowned house at Milan Fashion Week : ARMANI
9D Cousin of a Danish : BEAR CLAW
10D Match, as subject and verb : AGREE
11D Biblical person who says “My punishment is greater than I can bear” : CAIN
12D Bone with a radial notch : ULNA
13D Candy company known for its chocolate and butterscotch : SEES
18D Neighborhood in N.Y.C. or L.A. : NOHO
22D Home of the most Literature Nobelists in history : FRANCE
23D Greece’s largest airline : AEGEAN
24D Only video game to sell 300 million copies : MINECRAFT
26D Selfish cry before an evil laugh : MINE, ALL MINE!
28D Moolah : KALE
30D One of four awarded to Bill Nye : PATENT
31D Crane’s place, maybe : ARCADE
32D Where the film “Argo” is set : TEHRAN
35D Features of some windows : TINTS
36D Spanish phone greeting : ALO
38D Job listing info : WAGE
40D Moped alternative : E-SCOOTER
45D Erode : EAT AWAY
49D Figure out : DETERMINE
51D Out of the park : GONE
52D Certain Kool-Aid flavor : GRAPE
53D On the horizon : IMMINENT
54D Polite refusal : NO, SIR
56D ___ platter (Chinese restaurant offering) : PU PU
57D Doing business : OPEN
58D Carded : ID’ED
60D The “s” in the acronym “scuba” : SELF
63D Pizza, e.g. : PIE
64D Christmas ___ : EVE
65D Like Malbec wine : RED
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