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Mini 52 - 7×7

· By Sendhil Revuluri · Published 2024-05-02T03:34:41.256Z

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Enjoy! Feedback welcome as always. Cover picture from Macrovector / Shutterstock.
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  • heron 🤓1:46 · 2024-05-02T04:52:36.584Z
    nice! love the minitheme. great clue on FOAM as well! the double I part of ETALII was pretty tricky--thought i had something wrong there the whole time haha
    • AuLeaf 🤓1:46 · 2024-05-02T16:45:45.090Z
      I had the opposite problem, wondering what I had wrong when suddenly I realized it might be ET ALII instead of ET ALIA
    • John Larsen 🤓1:03 · 2024-05-02T12:58:04.822Z
      Love the clue for FOAM.
      • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-05-02T20:10:24.991Z
        Thanks and thanks for solving!
      • Jack M 🤓1:06 · 2024-05-02T14:46:23.566Z
        fun, thank you!
      • kurtalert 🤓39s · 2024-05-02T15:18:50.187Z
        I always screw up ET ALII- I swear, it always has to go in as ET ALIA first. Along with ELIA KAZAN, who I'm eternally convinced is called ELIE until the crosser forces me to realize that I have, yet again, screwed his name up. There's just something about the II/IA endings that I can't wrap my brain around.
        • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-05-02T20:11:04.171Z
          I agree… "Latin be weird" would be my summary :)
          • Larry Edelstein 🤓1:06 · 2024-05-03T01:34:32.282Z
            sitting here now I'm still not sure which is which
          • An Ephemeral Collation 🤓1:23 · 2024-05-02T15:41:01.279Z
            Never heard of 13-A, which slowed me down a little owed to the validity of multiple last letters at 4-D - guess I have some research to do!
            • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-05-02T20:16:21.882Z
              Thanks for solving! I was worried it was too misdirective (since back in the day Garmin mainly made GPS devices and navigation stuff for boats and such) so this is helpful feedback… I'm constantly missing the too-tough crossings! More practice needed. (I wish there was a way that construction software gave you a lens into clue difficulty as well as fill score… then one could highlight entries that are hard, and see intersecting hard slots.)
            • Hydrologist Guy 2:40 · 2024-05-04T16:55:53.671Z
              Enjoyed it! Thanks for constructing!
              • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2024-05-04T18:03:42.805Z
                Thanks for solving!
              1A
              "Smooth Operator" singer
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              Across
              1. 1A
                "Smooth Operator" singer
              2. 5A
                Big brand in wearable technology
              3. 7A
                Certain Ukrainian
              4. 9A
                Film (loosely) based on T-Boz's experiences as a youth, starring T.I., and with an appearance by Killer Mike
              5. 10A
                In the style of
              6. 11A
                Parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes
              7. 13A
                Big brand in wearable technology
              8. 14A
                Sanskrit honorifics
              Down
              1. 1D
                Brilliant
              2. 2D
                Tummy muscles
              3. 3D
                What Expelliarmus does
              4. 4D
                And others, in Latin
              5. 5D
                It may have a memory or give a close shave
              6. 6D
                Conference badges
              7. 8D
                Flatbread traditionally baked in a tandoor
              8. 12D
                Shapiro of NPR or Melber of MSNBC
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