On the Walk
Please, no meowing.
Angela Olson Halsted
| Time Limit | 15 minutes |
| Size | 14x14 |
| Words | 70 |
| Fillable squares | 164 |
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NOTE: Only in-person results are included in stats, error data, and score list
Clues and Answers
ACROSS
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Cake ingredient at a seafood restaurant
CRAB
5
Throat-clearing noise
AHEM
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It comes after Oscar in the NATO alphabet
PAPA
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Suffix for billion or Frigid
AIRE
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Volcano output
LAVA
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Unknown author, for short
ANON
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Dispersed quickly
SCATTERED
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"___ Rhythm"
IGOT
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Hummus brand
SABRA
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Knocked up, slangily
PREGGERS
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Swiss peak
ALP
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Contest near the end of "Hamilton"
DUEL
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Holiday that doesn't require a plane ticket
STAYCATION
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Hazard at sea
FOG
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Actress Turner of "Peyton Place"
LANA
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Sire's partner
DAM
35
Something you shouldn't tell a woman on the street to do
SMILE
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Banish
EXILE
39
D.C. baseball player
NAT
41
Food inspection org.
USDA
42
Sense of humor
WIT
43
Animal Control employee
DOGCATCHER
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Alda who played Hawkeye on "M*A*S*H"
ALAN
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Homer Simpson exclamation
DOH
49
Barbaric
INHUMANE
53
Noodles probably found in a college dorm room
RAMEN
57
Lion's den
LAIR
58
Bluegrass bass player's technique
PIZZICATO
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Fancy pajamas fabric
SILK
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Farm measurement
ACRE
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___ Rock Cafe
HARD
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"___ fair in love and war"
ALLS
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Enjoy a good book
READ
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Home of Iowa State University
AMES
DOWN
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Mama of the Mamas and the Papas
CASS
2
Costa ___
RICA
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Many a Middle East native
ARAB
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Deception, perhaps
BETRAYAL
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Pub offering
ALE
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Instrument that evokes heaven
HARP
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Even one time
EVER
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Got by
MADEDO
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Satchel in the Baseball Hall of Fame
PAIGE
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Aquatic creature that may be silver, gold, or zebra
ANGELFISH
11
Below average, as grades
POOR
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Industrious insects
ANTS
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Mineral with a hardness of 1 on the Mohs scale
TALC
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"Sun's out, ___ out"
GUNS
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Bachelor's digs
PAD
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Killed, in Biblical parlance
SLEW
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Big yellow vehicle in a Joni Mitchell song
TAXI
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Clarence Thomas accuser in 1991
ANITAHILL
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Drink mix brand often associated with NASA
TANG
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Non-PC desktop
IMAC
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"Ye ___ Shoppe"
OLDE
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Stuff in a camper's backpack
GEAR
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Girl in Granada
MUCHACHA
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Dutch cheese or the town for which it's named
EDAM
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(Just a) little bit
TAD
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Even (with)
ONAPAR
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Singer Amos
TORI
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Observes an online forum without contributing
LURKS
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Ingrid's "Casablanca" role
ILSA
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Hammer's target
NAIL
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Friendly
NICE
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Vox editor-at-large Klein
EZRA
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"Just the facts, ___" (phrase Joe Friday never actually said)
MAAM
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To be, in Toulouse
ETRE
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Assents silently
NODS
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26th of 26 in England
ZED
Stats
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Puzzle 1 15:00 14x14 |
Puzzle 2 30:00 15x16 |
Puzzle 3 35:00 19x19 |
Puzzle 4 35:00 15x15 |
Puzzle 5 25:00 15x15 |
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| Mean percent correct | 99.54% | 97.77% | 98.06% | 95.87% | 96.79% |
| Mean error count (incorrect or empty squares) | 0.75 | 4.47 | 5.68 | 7.9 | 6.19 |
| Mean incorrect (but filled) squares | 0.15 | 1.0 | 1.44 | 2.35 | 0.96 |
| Mean empty squares | 0.61 | 3.47 | 4.24 | 5.55 | 5.23 |
| Mean allotted time used | 38.2% | 43.2% | 52.9% | 55.8% | 52.1% |
| Mean solve time | 5:43 | 12:57 | 18:31 | 19:32 | 13:01 |
| Mean time per correct square | 2.11s | 3.98s | 3.87s | 6.4s | 4.18s |
| Fastest solve | 2:30 | 3:53 | 6:29 | 5:06 | 4:07 |
| Fastest error-free solve | 2:30 | 3:53 | 6:29 | 5:06 | 4:07 |
| Mean score | 429.9 | 1020.8 | 1442.2 | 1613.5 | 1155.2 |
| Best score | 150 | 233 | 389 | 306 | 247 |
| Worst possible score | 6320 | 8300 | 11390 | 8330 | 7790 |
| Number of error-free grids | 144 | 129 | 112 | 109 | 126 |
| Number of unfinished grids | 5 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 16 |
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