In Search of Lost Time
It's the end of an era... and the beginning of a new one.
Neville Fogarty
| Time Limit | 25 minutes |
| Size | 17x17 |
| Words | 98 |
| Fillable squares | 242 |
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NOTE: Only in-person results are included in stats, error data, and score list
Clues and Answers
ACROSS
1
Goes into la-la land
SPACES
7
Adobe Acrobat Reader files
PDFS
11
"The Dark Side of the Moon" triangle
PRISM
16
Pain in the butt
HASSLE
17
Café au ___
LAIT
18
Hole-digging device
AUGER
19
Secure movie rights for a haboob?
OPTIONDESERTSTORM
22
Yes, in Lyon
OUI
23
___ la la
TRA
24
BBQ applications
RUBS
25
Uncle, south of the border
TIO
26
"Power Metal" and "Far Beyond Driven" court cases?
PANTERASUITS
30
Meat, for a carnivore
DIET
31
Car amenity used in winter
HEATER
32
"Quite the opposite!"
NOTSO
33
Tag
LABEL
36
Long-eared thief in New Super Mario Bros. U
NABBIT
40
With 82-Across, Canadian actor who played Jason Seaver on "Growing Pains"
ALAN
41
Smudge on a Scantron form?
ERASURETHING
47
Fa follower
SOL
48
North Carolina school
ELON
49
Playground challenge
DARE
50
What a cow says
MOO
51
Art from an office fill-in?
TEMPPAINTING
54
"Me too!"
SAME
55
Melt, as fat
RENDER
56
Word clued as "Modern messages" in a 1995 New York Times crossword
FAXES
57
___ O'Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub's "24" role
CHLOE
60
1987 Dustin Hoffman bomb
ISHTAR
64
Laundry room accumulation
HEAP
65
Music groups featuring the merchant of Venice?
ANTONIOBANDS
71
"There's a mouse in here, and I'm freaking out!"
EEK
72
H H H
ETAS
73
Put two and two together, maybe?
ADD
74
Jr.'s jr.
III
75
Therapy for a closet organizer?
SHOERACKTREATMENT
80
Golden Horde member
TATAR
81
Online giggle
HEHE
82
See 40-Across
THICKE
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Attacks, as gnats
SWATS
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Praising poems
ODES
85
Superfluity
EXCESS
DOWN
1
Salt-N-Pepa title that's repeated in a Betty Everett title
SHOOP
2
___ New Guinea
PAPUA
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John who was Patty Duke's third husband
ASTIN
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TV franchise that had a "Cyber" show
CSI
5
"Calling America" band, familiarly
ELO
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Nissan sedan
SENTRA
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Make happy
PLEASE
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"___ Rheingold"
DAS
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Guy with a few Food Network shows
FIERI
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Emulate a model
STRUT
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Quarterback's throw
PASS
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Something groovy?
RUT
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Phrase shouted by "Face the Music" contestants
IGOTIT
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Sum of the terms of an infinite sequence
SERIES
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Japanese agent created by John P. Marquand
MRMOTO
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"Phooey!"
DRAT
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Cable channel with "Angie Tribeca" and "Conan"
TBS
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Not now
THEN
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Lengthy swimmer
EEL
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Brunch vessels
URNS
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Does once?
DOTH
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nick@___
NITE
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Make it to the end
LAST
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35-Down ingredient
ALOE
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Soothing stuff sometimes made with 34-Down
BALM
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Car company whose logo resembles an Euler diagram
AUDI
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Raisin ___
BRAN
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Frozen floater
BERG
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Lust for life
ELAN
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___ rage
ROID
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Youngest Brontë sister
ANNE
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Big name in big screens
IMAX
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Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ending city
NOME
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"Anything ___"
GOES
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French for "sword"
EPEE
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Stage piece
PROP
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Tony! Toni! Toné!, e.g.
TRIO
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"Waitress" composer/lyricist Bareilles
SARA
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So rad
FAB
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Where pirates keep their booty
CHESTS
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TV show with Buck Owens
HEEHAW
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Like Crazy Horse or Sitting Bull
LAKOTA
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Critter catchers
SNARES
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Seek's counterpart
HIDE
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As of right now
TODATE
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"One Day ___ Time" (2017 Netflix reboot
ATA
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___ Cheesier (old Doritos flavor
NACHO
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Voiced disapproval
TSKED
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Sister-in-law's daughter, perhaps
NIECE
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Tiny tennis shots
DINKS
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Bing results
SITES
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Makes a mistake
ERRS
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Take in bacon, maybe
EAT
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First word of 78-Down's clue
THE
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"The Audience Is Listening" co.
THX
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Open ___ night
MIC
Stats
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Puzzle 1 15:00 15x15 |
Puzzle 2 35:00 19x14 |
Puzzle 3 35:00 18x18 |
Puzzle 4 45:00 19x19 |
Puzzle 5 25:00 17x17 |
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| Mean percent correct | 99.49% | 94.08% | 97.52% | 96.39% | 96.32% |
| Mean error count (incorrect or empty squares) | 0.93 | 13.15 | 6.44 | 10.64 | 8.91 |
| Mean incorrect (but filled) squares | 0.18 | 3.7 | 1.55 | 1.73 | 1.18 |
| Mean empty squares | 0.76 | 9.44 | 4.89 | 8.91 | 7.73 |
| Mean allotted time used | 33.4% | 55.0% | 40.6% | 44.3% | 44.5% |
| Mean solve time | 5:00 | 19:15 | 14:12 | 19:55 | 11:06 |
| Mean time per correct square | 1.65s | 5.53s | 3.36s | 4.2s | 2.86s |
| Fastest solve | 2:40 | 7:12 | 5:29 | 7:55 | 4:44 |
| Fastest error-free solve | 2:40 | 7:14 | 5:29 | 9:15 | 4:44 |
| Mean score | 399.3 | 1732.9 | 1187.9 | 1742.9 | 1100.0 |
| Best score | 160 | 434 | 329 | 555 | 284 |
| Worst possible score | 6890 | 9260 | 10400 | 12050 | 9260 |
| Number of error-free grids | 104 | 66 | 84 | 67 | 81 |
| Number of unfinished grids | 3 | 40 | 12 | 15 | 18 |
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