Relative difficulty: Medium
Theme: No theme
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Word of the day: Wonk (6A: One who's deep in the weeds of policy):
- a student who spends much time studying and has little or no social life; grind.
- a stupid, boring, or unattractive person.
- a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner: a policy wonk.
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This was a charming themeless puzzle with some solid fill. The grid looks fairly typical for a midweek puzzle - with dinky little three letter answers for downs in the SE and NW and full-length downs in the middle. The best fill - and cluing - is featured smack dab in the middle with VNECK (6A: Sweater type that exposes the t-shirt).
Some of the other fill (GOBI, OVENS, VWS) feels pretty mundane but at least isn't relegated to the category of true crosswordese a la ELO or NNE. The cluing for EVEN (5A: Tied, as a score) is meh (Even Stevens, anyone?). I've never before heard of the word of the day, either - WONK (6A: One who's deep in the weeds of policy), but the crosses were adequate to fill it in, and it's fun enough that I'm not upset.
This took me 29 seconds - got caught up on WONK so had to switch to the downs, but I didn't look back after that, so we'll call it medium difficulty for a Wednesday.
Thanks for reading and see you next time.
Signed,
Sam Austin, King of Mini CrossWorld
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