Four Plus One
You already dealt with the ATMs. Now it's time for change.
Bryan Betancur
| Time Limit | 20 minutes |
| Size | 15x15 |
| Words | 78 |
| Fillable squares | 185 |
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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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Elitists
SNOBS
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One way to traverse a ballroom
WALTZ
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Quarterback Newton
CAM
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Quarterback whose name became synonymous with genuflecting
TEBOW
15
Previous to, in poetry
AFORE
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Slugger's stat
RBI
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Pal, in Peru
AMIGA
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Juking
FAKINGOUT
20
Journey following a bulbous path?
ROTUNDTRIP
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Stood
ROSE
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Pie place?
SKY
24
Main act preceder
OPENER
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___ up (absorb)
SOP
29
Affirmative vote
YEA
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It's heard at a hearing
PLEA
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Be patient
WAIT
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Journey up the steps of Machu Picchu?
STAIRTREK
39
Per person
AHEAD
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It's tapped at many a college party
KEG
42
"Us" director
PEELE
43
Journey to old Myanmar?
BURMARIDE
45
Broccoli ___
RABE
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Lots
ATON
47
ER personnel
RNS
50
"Pan's Labyrinth" (Guillermo del Toro film)
PAN
51
Team up, colloquially
COLLAB
54
Sounds of understanding
OHS
56
Off-Broadway analogue of a Tony
OBIE
57
Journey with a skeleton crew (literally)?
BONEVOYAGE
64
Communications with large audiences
MASSMEDIA
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"...then again..."
ORNOT
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Caregiver en route to a hosp.
EMT
68
Worries
FRETS
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Radio dial
TUNER
70
Ph.D. students, frequently
TAS
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Resource
ASSET
72
Descriptor for the circled letters
SPARE
DOWN
1
Betelgeuse, for one
STAR
2
Pixar hero or Verne antihero
NEMO
3
Article celebrating someone's life, for short
OBIT
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Phony
BOGUS
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Posh
SWANKY
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Drift, as an odor
WAFT
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Where travelers may come from
AFAR
8
Trickster of Norse mythology
LOKI
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Libyan capital
TRIPOLI
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State of meditative calm
ZEN
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Channel Sinatra
CROON
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Exercise improperly
ABUSE
13
Bishop's headdress
MITER
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Of more importance
GREATER
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Go from blonde to brunette, perhaps
DYE
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Offender, in copspeak
PERP
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Tool for collecting evidence, say
SWAB
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Location of Iolani Palace
OAHU
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Seaside attraction
PIER
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Invite to enter
ASKIN
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Cell phone precursor
PAGER
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Dishes sometimes wrapped in banana leaves
TAMALES
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Journalist Koppel
TED
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Gather
REAP
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Site of Napoleon's first exile
ELBA
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Acute
KEEN
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What experiments yield
DATA
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Bonnie and Clyde were two
ROBBERS
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Mo. in which Day of the Dead ends
NOV
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Photographer's sessions
SHOOTS
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One of Santa's nine
COMET
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Best-selling author Michelle
OBAMA
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Enumerates
LISTS
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It may be agave or chocolate
SYRUP
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Works by Neruda or Keats
ODES
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Evening, in adspeak
NITE
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Sunrise direction
EAST
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"Pitch Perfect" Kendrick
ANNA
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Suffix denoting an attendee
GOER
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To be, on the Seine
ETRE
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Painter's deg.
MFA
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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