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NOTE: Only in-person results are included in stats, error data, and score list
Clues and Answers
ACROSS
1
Spoke like Cindy Brady
LISPED
7
It's part of the healing process
SCAB
11
NYC airport
JFK
14
Punctually
ONTIME
15
Symbol of stubbornness
MULE
16
"It's no ___!"
USE
17
Billiards shot with a nuclear amount of english?
ATOMICMASSE
19
Any of the Appalachians: Abbr.
MTN
20
Participant in a flame war
TROLL
21
Adele, e.g.
ALTO
22
Male breaker, more properly
BBOY
23
Southwestern Native American people
HOPI
24
European capital that's home to the Akershus Fortress
OSLO
25
Anthropomorphic turtle from the Super Mario Bros. series, familiarly
KOOPA
26
District 2 tribute who's the main antagonist of the first "Hunger Games" book (he's named for a Roman statesman)
CATO
28
"The Pinkprint" singer Nicki
MINAJ
30
Coming into one's own
BLOOMING
34
Sea nymph of Greek mythology
NEREID
37
Politico Paul
RON
38
"Ooh, goose liver! My favorite!"?
ITSPATE
40
"___ Many Cooks" (viral comedy short originally aired on Adult Swim in 2014)
TOO
41
Pasta sometimes colloquially called "scroodle noodles"
ROTINI
43
Most slender
SVELTEST
45
Word before salad or blend
HOUSE
47
Prince Albert's can?
ARSE
48
Twists, as facts
SKEWS
50
Blue blood's vessel?
VEIN
52
Mars' Greek counterpart
ARES
56
"Buenas tardes"
HOLA
57
Lagerfeld of fashion
KARL
58
Smack down, biblically
SMITE
59
Org. for cavity fillers
ADA
60
Cry after being turned to gold by an epée?
MIDASTOUCHE
62
Grier of "Jackie Brown"
PAM
63
Has loans, say
OWES
64
Org. whose 2014 Rookie of the Year was Kyle Larson
NASCAR
65
Just manage, with "out"
EKE
66
Sagacious
WISE
67
Prepares, as diehard solvers do for crossword tournaments
TRAINS
DOWN
1
Hesitant
LOATH
2
Survey course, for short
INTRO
3
Find out how low you can go?
STOOP
4
Racetrack that hosts the Preakness
PIMLICO
5
Jannings who won the first Best Actor Oscar
EMIL
6
National Tomato and Winter Squash Mo.
DEC
7
"All the ___ Things" (Blink-182 hit of the early 2000s)
SMALL
8
Made-to-order
CUSTOM
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To boot
ALSO
10
Sacramento daily
BEE
11
A giant leap for elephant-kind?
JUMBOJETE
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Photography setting that affects depth of field
FSTOP
13
Nairobi's nation
KENYA
18
Layers of rock?
MASONS
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Tusked animal
BOAR
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Fancy term for an ear infection
OTITIS
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Prepares to be knighted
KNEELS
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Stereotypical high-school perfectionist's bane
AMINUS
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Laborer who's often unpaid
INTERN
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Draft reply
BRR
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Prince Albert's can?
LOO
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Where to find that perfect sheen at the fabric store?
ONTHELAME
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Modern surveyor's aid: Abbr.
GPS
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Google : Android :: Apple : ___
IOS
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Part of an ellipsis
DOT
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Benefits
AVAILS
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Grinnell's state
IOWA
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Olympics squad in red, white and blue
TEAMUSA
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Ducks
EVADES
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Pentagon, for one
SHAPE
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___ moment (photographable occasion)
KODAK
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Render invisible
ERASE
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Christina of "Buffalo '66"
RICCI
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Hawke of "Boyhood"
ETHAN
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Prophets
SEERS
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Fruit often found in fruit tarts
KIWI
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Take off
SOAR
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Trim, in a way
MOW
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"Rizzoli & Isles" network
TNT
Stats
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Puzzle 1 20:00 15x15 |
Puzzle 2 30:00 15x15 |
Puzzle 3 45:00 20x19 |
Puzzle 4 15:00 15x15 |
Puzzle 5 40:00 17x17 |
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| Mean percent correct | 95.39% | 93.91% | 95.34% | 96.66% | 81.36% |
| Mean error count (incorrect or empty squares) | 8.34 | 11.03 | 14.44 | 6.38 | 44.74 |
| Mean incorrect (but filled) squares | 1.87 | 3.33 | 3.48 | 1.54 | 12.17 |
| Mean empty squares | 6.47 | 7.7 | 10.96 | 4.84 | 32.57 |
| Mean allotted time used | 61.0% | 55.8% | 50.7% | 55.1% | 67.7% |
| Mean solve time | 12:12 | 16:43 | 22:49 | 8:16 | 27:05 |
| Mean time per correct square | 4.24s | 5.91s | 4.63s | 2.69s | 8.32s |
| Fastest solve | 4:20 | 5:47 | 8:08 | 3:05 | 7:32 |
| Fastest error-free solve | 4:20 | 5:49 | 8:08 | 3:05 | 7:32 |
| Mean score | 1196.9 | 1606.9 | 1999.4 | 835.1 | 3235.2 |
| Best score | 260 | 349 | 488 | 185 | 452 |
| Worst possible score | 7130 | 7730 | 12500 | 7130 | 10100 |
| Number of error-free grids | 52 | 39 | 56 | 67 | 40 |
| Number of unfinished grids | 25 | 23 | 15 | 16 | 40 |
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