Is There a Fee for Emotional Baggage?
Warning: This puzzle may cause a Berning desire to travel to Switzerland.
Angela Olson Halsted
| Time Limit | 20 minutes |
| Size | 15x15 |
| Words | 78 |
| Fillable squares | 187 |
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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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Eats
HAS
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Result of guitar practice, probably
CALLUS
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Coleslaw, for one
SIDE
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___ blonde (grayish hair shade)
ASH
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Bless, in a way
ANOINT
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Apple tablet
IPAD
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Brazilian city in a Pablo Cruise song
RIO
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A few years ago, I decided to go on a singles trip to South Korea. It was there I met ...
MYSEOULMATE
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"Spider-___: Far From Home"
MAN
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Acronym for Jed Bartlet on "The West Wing"
POTUS
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A Doll's House playwright Henrik
IBSEN
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Canadian diva Celine
DION
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Santa ___, California
ANA
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Our first trip together was in the Czech Republic. We had a huge list of places we wanted to see, but our guide there kept us within a realistic schedule. I guess you could say she was pretty ...
PRAGUEMATIC
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Desi name akin to Rex
RAJ
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Started again, as a candle
RELIT
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Major for a future Fed employee
ECON
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"Ciao!"
TATA
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Royal name in Norway
OLAV
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"___ you a little old for this?"
ARENT
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Gosling of the "Hey Girl" meme
RYAN
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Part of a window
PANE
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Stitch's pal
LILO
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"___ bleu!"
SACRE
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Airport code on Australia's east coast
SYD
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On our flight to Canada, he tried to skip the airline's safety presentation, but I told him we ...
OTTAWATCHIT
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How many it takes to tango
TWO
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Information in a spreadsheet
DATA
48
Apt surname for a birder
CROWE
51
Build a sun porch, e.g.
ADDON
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331⁄3, for an LP
RPM
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Sadly, our trip to Italy is where it all fell apart. He left me halfway through the vacation, so for the rest of the time I just cried and ...
ROMEDAROUND
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Director Spike or bassist Geddy
LEE
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"It's clear to me now"
ISEE
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"Bodak Yellow" rapper whose name comes from a bum brand
CARDIB
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Manuscript readers: Abbr.
EDS
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Like an axle needing repair
BENT
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Sophisticated
CLASSY
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One-named "Cheap Thrills" singer
SIA
DOWN
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"First do no ___" (phrase frequently attributed to Hippocrates)
HARM
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Continent home to most people
ASIA
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Rhimes's production company
SHONDALAND
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Sleep in a tent, say
CAMPOUT
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"Tennis, ___?"
ANYONE
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In need of direction
LOST
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"In ___ of flowers ..."
LIEU
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Some, in Spanish
UNOS
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Poker legend Ungar
STU
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The lion king in "The Lion King"
SIMBA
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Potables actually first brewed in England, for short
IPAS
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June 1, 2019, for one
DATE
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Genesis garden
EDEN
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Nickname that omits "oln"
LINC
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"___ up" ("It's no use")
IGIVE
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BTO's "You ___ Seen Nothing Yet"
AINT
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Kudos
PROPS
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Pass along
RELAY
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Consideration for some scholarships
MERIT
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Amtrak's East Coast express train
ACELA
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So far
TONOW
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Singer of "Georgia on My Mind" and "Hit the Road Jack"
RAYCHARLES
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Pioneering game company
ATARI
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Jackson inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019
JANET
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Parcel of land
TRACT
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Silicon Valley's Palo ___
ALTO
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What you might be on if your flight is overbooked
STANDBY
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Had debts
OWED
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Apollo Creed's son
ADONIS
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Short message to one's followers
TWEET
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Item purchased by a parent-to-be
CRIB
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Ceremonial flower on "The Bachelor"
ROSE
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Sign of the future
OMEN
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Disappearing sea
ARAL
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Bilingual cartoon explorer
DORA
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Flops
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Mani's partner, in a spa
PEDI
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Arizona spring training home for the Cubs and the A's
MESA
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UVA and UNC are in it
ACC
Stats
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Puzzle 1 20:00 15x15 |
Puzzle 2 30:00 17x17 |
Puzzle 3 35:00 17x17 |
Puzzle 4 35:00 16x15 |
Puzzle 5 20:00 15x15 |
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| Mean percent correct | 99.84% | 99.56% | 97.13% | 96.1% | 99.72% |
| Mean error count (incorrect or empty squares) | 0.31 | 1.08 | 6.89 | 7.88 | 0.52 |
| Mean incorrect (but filled) squares | 0.22 | 0.31 | 1.78 | 2.61 | 0.3 |
| Mean empty squares | 0.09 | 0.76 | 5.11 | 5.27 | 0.23 |
| Mean allotted time used | 35.6% | 37.8% | 54.4% | 57.3% | 41.1% |
| Mean solve time | 7:06 | 11:21 | 19:03 | 20:02 | 8:12 |
| Mean time per correct square | 2.29s | 2.77s | 4.9s | 6.19s | 2.67s |
| Fastest solve | 2:42 | 3:27 | 5:24 | 4:47 | 3:00 |
| Fastest error-free solve | 2:53 | 3:27 | 5:24 | 4:47 | 3:00 |
| Mean score | 524.3 | 801.8 | 1516.9 | 1565.9 | 570.8 |
| Best score | 173 | 207 | 324 | 287 | 180 |
| Worst possible score | 7310 | 9710 | 9800 | 8660 | 7250 |
| Number of error-free grids | 163 | 163 | 132 | 144 | 169 |
| Number of unfinished grids | 1 | 4 | 24 | 23 | 3 |
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