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• a tentative attempt; an analytic or interpretive literary composition

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Answer: ESSAY

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• Emerson piece
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• "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," maybe
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• The New Yorker piece
• Swift's "A Modest Proposal," e.g.
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• SAT component
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• Pundit piece
• Piece of Bacon?
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• Philosophy class assignment
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• Part of some history exams
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• New SAT component
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• Grader's headache
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• Frank Rich piece
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• Five-paragraph response, perhaps
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• "In this ___, I will . . ."
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• "A Modest Proposal" e.g.
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Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Paper Hat

There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solve today's puzzle before reading further! Paper Hat

Constructor: Beth Rubin

Editor: Jared Goudsmit

What I Learned from Today’s Puzzle

• ANNA (57A: Disability justice activist Landre) ANNA Landre is an internationally-recognized activist and researcher. Her work calls attention to the "implementation gap," highlighting ways laws often fail in practice. ANNA Landre is currently a PhD student at the Global Disability Innovation Hub in London. She previously served as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in Washington, D.C., while completing an undergraduate degree at Georgetown University.
• CREPE (33D: Thin pancake similar to malawah) A malawah is a sweet, thin pancake flavored with cardamom. It originated in Somali. A CREPE is also a thin pancake. CREPEs originated in France, and may be sweet or savory.

Random Thoughts & Interesting Things

• CLUE (7A: Board game with Miss Scarlet) I enjoy playing many different board games, but if pressed to choose one game that is my favorite of all time, it would be CLUE . Nothing against Miss Scarlet, but Professor Plum is my favorite character. When I was young, Professor Plum was my favorite for the strategic reason that his starting space on the game board was the closet to the door of a room. Now when I play CLUE , I generally play the CLUE Master Detective edition, which was released in 1988 and features more rooms, more suspects, and more weapons. In this version, all characters begin in the same space. I still choose to play as Professor Plum.
• EAU (16A: Water, in French) We frequently see the French word for water used in the name of perfumes. For example, I have previously written about EAU de Luna and EAU de Space .
• I'VE (24A: "___ Been to the Mountaintop" (MLK speech)  "I'VE Been to the Mountaintop" was Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech, delivered at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee on April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated. In the speech, he said, "...I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land."
• ARABIC (25A: "Alif, ba, ta..." language) Alif, ba, and ta are the first three letters of the ARABIC alphabet. The basic ARABIC alphabet contains 28 letters, each representing a consonant. Vowel sounds are indicated by diacritical marks added to the letters.
• OIL-BASED (29A: Like the paint Van Gogh used for "The Starry Night") I wrote about Vincent Van Gogh's painting, "The Starry Night," a couple of weeks ago.
• MANO (32A: Hand, in Spanish) The phrase "MANO a MANO," which is Spanish for "hand to hand," is used to describe a direct competition or conflict between two people.
• GEM (37A: Jasper or opal) Jasper is a type of quartz. It has a number of different colors, which are the result of mineral impurities. Red is a common color for this GEM (caused by iron inclusions), but it may also be yellow, brown, or green. There are a number of different varieties of opal, broadly classified into precious (these GEMs display iridescence) and common (such as the milk opal or resin opal).
• ON SILENT (48A: Set to not ring or buzz) and JUST A SEC (60A: "Hang on one moment!") These two answers seem to go together nicely. "JUST A SEC ... I need to put my phone ON SILENT."
• ESSAYS (50A: Some Zadie Smith works) Zadie Smith is a writer of novels, ESSAYS, and short stories. Her most recent book, The Fraud , was published last year, and is a historical novel about the Tichborne case, a British trial in the late 1800s concerning a man claiming to be the heir to a family fortune. I enjoyed listening to Zadie Smith talk about her new book in this NPR interview .
• IN A (59A: Catch lightning ___ bottle) To try to "catch (or capture) lightning IN A bottle" is to attempt a particularly challenging or difficult feat, something that seems impossible. The saying dates back to the 1800s, and refers to Benjamin Franklin's experiments (conducted in the 1700s) that attempted to capture electricity from lightning and store it IN A jar.
• STL (70A: Soulard Market city (Abbr.) The Soulard Farmers Market , located in St. Louis (STL), Missouri is the oldest public market in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River. It was established in 1779, and is still operating today. Soulard Market is open Wednesday through Saturday year-round.
• CATAN (1D: Board game with ore, lumber, brick, wool and grain) It's been just a few days since we saw the game of CATAN referenced in a clue for the word ORES.
• OPERA (2D: Show such as "Porgy and Bess") Porgy and Bess is an OPERA composed by George Gershwin, with libretto by Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. It was first performed in Boston in September 1935, premiering on Broadway a couple of weeks later. The OPERA has been produced multiple times since then, including in 2019 at the Metropolitan OPERA in New York City. The live cast album from the Metropolitan OPERA production won a Grammy Award for Best OPERA Recording.
• BEA (11D: "Golden Girls" actress Arthur) BEA Arthur (1922-2009) portrayed Dorothy Zbornak on the TV series  The Golden Girls (1985-1992). Prior to that, she portrayed the character of Maude Findlay in the TV series  All in the Family  (1971-1972), and then in the spin-off series,  Maude  (1972-1978). BEA Arthur won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, one for Maude (1977) and one for The Golden Girls (1988).
• EDAM (19D: Cheese aka queso de bola) EDAM is a semi-hard cheese traditionally sold in spheres wrapped with red paraffin wax. It is named after the town in the northwest Netherlands where it was originally made. In Spain, the Philippines and some Latin American countries, EDAM is known as queso de bola, Spanish for "ball cheese."
• UVA (22D: Charlottesville sch.) Charlottesville, Virginia is the home to the University of Virginia (UVA). The abbreviation of school in the clue alerts solvers that the answer will be an abbreviation.
• OIKOS (34D: Greek yogurt brand) Dannon OIKOS is a line of Greek yogurt that has been on the market since 2007. Dannon is the American brand of the French food-processing corporation, Danone. I learned that fact when writing about a previous puzzle .
• EAST (47D: Chad-to-Sudan direction) Chad is a landlocked country in Africa. The capital of Chad is N'Djamena. EAST of Chad is the country of Sudan. Sudan is not landlocked, as it has coastline along the Red Sea. The capital of Sudan is Khartoum.

Crossword Puzzle Theme Synopsis

• MONEY ORDERS (3D: Bank-issued checks)
• CUT ME SOME SLACK (7D: "C'mon, I only made a little mistake!")
• BAG OF TRICKS (26D: Crafty person's repertoire)

The top word of each vertical theme answer (the one on top like a HAT) can pair with the word PAPER, giving us PAPER MONEY, PAPER CUT, and PAPER BAG.

I liked the use of the word HAT to point at the theme being in the top word of the vertical theme answers. It's a cute theme. Thank you, Beth, for this enjoyable puzzle.

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As part of College Confidential's essay series, we're sharing personal essays from students who were admitted during a prior college admissions cycle. The student who wrote this as her essay was accepted to the University of Michigan, and we are sharing it with her permission.

"What's a seven-letter word to describe a specialist in equine hoof care?"

After I typed "farrier" into the answer key, I sat back and surveyed my work. As the final clue in the custom crossword puzzle that I created for my state's equestrian association, it took a bit of coordination to get everything right, but I was able to create enough clues to make a puzzle of intermediate complexity, just as the client had requested.

Having a job creating custom crossword puzzles is one part trivia and one part strategy. Sometimes I get so into the client's request that I'll research a topic for hours, coming up with hundreds of possible clues on the specific subject I've been assigned to cover. But then when the time comes to design the "Across" and "Down" grids, I struggle to line everything up perfectly and have to scrap my well-established intentions and start over.

But that's part of the fun of being a crossword puzzle designer, which is how I describe myself on the business card that I hand out to pretty much everyone I meet. I started out making puzzles for fun, then I offered to make one for my brother's robotics team when I was 14. After that, his teacher asked if I could make one for his bowling league's Christmas party, and word began to spread from there. Before long, I had requests coming in not only from people in my local community, but from those in other states, regarding topics I didn't know existed.

For example, although I'd never considered how asphalt was made in the past, I learned phrases like "hot mix" and "aggregate" after making a crossword for a local paving firm. While pickleball had never been on my radar screen before, I picked up terms like "chop" and "backspin" while designing a crossword for the local seniors' community pickleball team. As my business grew, so did the skepticism from those who seemed to think I was pursuing an odd method of making money. Not only that, but people began offering opinions about how my self-employment would affect my free time.

"If you keep making crosswords for other people, you won't enjoy solving them anymore," my uncle warned me one Sunday as I completed the New York Times' crossword puzzle. But as I entered the phrase "Pick up the Pacer" in response to the clue "Give a ride to an Indiana hoopster," I knew he was incorrect.

For me, creating crosswords is just as fun as solving them – maybe even more so. When I look at an empty crossword grid, it must be the same way a farmer feels when viewing an open field. I see all of the possibilities and potential before me as a challenge and a gift. The world is mine to create, and each word that I put on the page is like a seed planted in the dirt. It doesn't have just one sole purpose. It feeds into the rest of the clues, providing much-needed vowels and consonants to the words that will intersect it.

Although I haven't yet found a way to work "cruciverbalist" into a crossword, I hope to make it happen someday, because that's the word that describes me. I'd like the clue for it to be listed first when I get to design the ultimate puzzle — one for a crossword enthusiast's association. I can see it now: "1 Across: A person who is skilled at solving or creating crossword puzzles."

Certainly the crossword enthusiasts will smile as they complete that clue, content in the fact that someone "gets" them. I'm smiling just thinking about it.

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NYT Mini Crossword today: puzzle answers for Friday, April 26

Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for!

A bite-sized version of the New York Times’ well-known crossword puzzle, The Mini is a quick and easy way to test your crossword skills daily in a lot less time (the average puzzle takes most players just over a minute to solve). While The Mini is smaller and simpler than a normal crossword, it isn’t always easy. Tripping up on one clue can be the difference between a personal best completion time and an embarrassing solve attempt.

Just like our  Wordle hints and Connections hints , we’re here to help with The Mini today if you’re stuck and need a little help.

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Below are the answers for the NYT Mini crossword today.

NYT Mini Crossword answers today

• Imperfection in a diamond – FLAW
• Bit of cheek makeup – BLUSH
• Tall and lean – LANKY
• Compulsions – URGES
• Something shared by wetlands and woodwinds -REED
• Roadside emergency marker – FLARE
• Glute-strengthening exercise – LUNGE
• The “A” of FAQ – ASKED
• Fundamental reasons – WHYS
• Zoom call effect for a distracting background – BLUR

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Hasbro has announced it is collaborating with The New York Times to create a Wordle: The Party Game, the board game adaptation of the uber-popular mobile word game. The gameplay is the same, but it's being brought to players "in an all new way that's perfect for game night with family and friends," according to a press release.

In this version of Wordle, one player is designated as the Wordle Host in each round and writes down the secret five-letter word. The other players have to compete against each other to guess the word in six tries or less, with the winner being the player that scores the fewest points by the end of the game.

New York Times has introduced WorldeBot, a companion tool that will analyze your performance in Wordle.

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There are some days when Wordle players get different answers depending on the browser they're using to play the game. Today happens to be one of those days, but for a vastly different reason. The New York Times revised today's Wordle answer because of its unintentional connection to the Supreme Court's impending ruling on Roe v. Wade.

The original answer to Wordle 324 was supposed to be "fetus." Wordle founder Josh Wardle scheduled that solution to show up today over a year ago, long before The New York Times bought the game at the height of its popularity in January. Everdeen Mason, editorial director for New York Times Games, said in a statement that it changed the answer to something entirely different because of its proximity to the Supreme Court's draft opinion that leaked last week and contained a proposal to overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling, which sent shock waves across the country.

Bringing a Social Movement to Life

The author Adam Hochschild recommends books that vividly illustrate moments of great change.

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Occasionally you read a book that changes your sense of what a book can do. For me, that title was Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost , which recounts the history of Belgium’s brutal colonial rule over the Congo and how an early-20th-century human-rights campaign managed to bring world attention to the atrocities taking place in the name of profit. I went on to read all of Hochschild’s other books, and each one achieved the same difficult feat: bringing narrative flair to the story of a movement, whether the 19th-century abolitionist struggle in England or the republican cause taken up by Americans in the Spanish Civil War. What Hochschild does is not easy. He uses the conventions of a fiction writer to make the push for human rights extremely readable. It was a thrill to have him write an essay this week on a new book by David Van Reybrouck, Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World , about that nation’s independence struggle—Hochschild says the book “fills an important gap.” I took the opportunity to talk with Hochschild about some other books he’d recommend, especially those focused on moments in history when people manage to accomplish great change.

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Gal Beckerman: Besides your own work, what are some books you recommend that do a good job presenting the dynamics of activism and making change?

Adam Hochschild: One of my favorite books—and one of the great nonfiction works of the 20th century—is George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia . In 1936, Orwell volunteered in the Spanish Civil War to fight fascism. But once in Spain, he found two things he didn’t expect: the most far-reaching social revolution Western Europe has ever seen, and a war-within-the-war as other parties in the Spanish Republic crushed these changes. No reader can forget Orwell’s description of what it feels like to be hit by a bullet: like being “at the center of an explosion.”

Beckerman: The book you reviewed exposed me to Indonesia’s independence movement for the first time, I’m ashamed to admit. Are there any books that did that for you—opened you up to a new part of the world or a history you didn't know about?

Hochschild: One piece of history I long knew too little about was the Philippine War of 1899–1902. Gregg Jones’s Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial Dream is a good narrative introduction. And Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream 1899–1999 , edited by Angel Velasco Shaw and Luis H. Francia, is an extraordinarily rich collection of documents, photographs, film scripts, poetry, and more.

Beckerman: Are there works of fiction that you think offer an important lens on human rights?

Hochschild: If Not Now, When? is the best of the two novels by the great Italian writer and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi, who devoted most of his writing life to nonfiction about the Holocaust. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is an unforgettable portrait of human suffering in the Great Depression, and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle , set in a meatpacking plant, gave us the Pure Food and Drug Act. However, that was not the intention of Sinclair, who was more concerned about labor rights. “I aimed at the public’s heart,” he said later, “and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

Beckerman: Finally, do you have one book you might press on a young writer looking to work in the same narrative-nonfiction vein as you?

Hochschild: To me, Robert Caro is our greatest living nonfiction writer. Start with his first book, The Power Broker , about New York City’s parks and the highway czar Robert Moses. You don’t have to be a native New Yorker like me to appreciate this massive demolition job on the man who laced our glorious city with ugly freeways and had a lifelong contempt for Black and poor people. It’s a masterpiece of storytelling and one of the best books about the exercise of power ever written.

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If you’ve ever taken a standardized test in your life, you’ll recognize the format of the Chilean writer Zambra’s book immediately. The author grew up under the Pinochet dictatorship, and in this work, based on the structure of the Chilean Academic Aptitude Test, he uses multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blanks, and long sample texts to confront the authoritarian instincts that underlay his own education and that continue in many rigid, exam-based educational systems today. Its many questions begin to create a creeping sense of dread and nihilism, and that mood comes to a head in the last section, which is made up of three short stories and a series of questions about each. Yet even with these dark undertones, the book is both a quick read and hilarious. You may have thought that you never wanted to encounter fill-in-the-bubble-type tests again, but rest assured, Multiple Choice does all the work for you; it’s brilliant, and well worth your time.  — Ilana Masad

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Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, No Resolution

There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solve today's puzzle before reading further! No Resolution (Freestyle)

Constructor: Dena R. Witkes

Editor: Amanda Rafkin

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Comments from Today’s Crossword Constructor

Dena: Working with the USA TODAY editing team is an educational process and I hope that goes both ways. My initial instinct was to push back on the editor's clue for 12D, but I saw the brilliance in including something that might be a gimme to some (despite it being completely out of my wheelhouse.) One of the only clues I pushed to keep was 1A on account of this puzzle being published on 4/19. Happy Bicycle Day!

What I Learned from Today’s Puzzle

• MONAE (44A: Multi-hypenate Janelle) Janelle MONÁE is a singer-songwriter-rapper-actor. This I knew. I especially enjoyed her performance in the 2022 movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery , in which she portrayed twins Andi and Helen Brand. What I learned from this clue is the word "multi-hyphenate," which is used to refer to a person with several different jobs. It is particularly used in reference to those in the entertainment industry, but can be used in other contexts as well. I typically describe my current profession as crossword constructor, editor, and blogger. Perhaps it's time to admit that, like Janelle MONÁE, I am a multi-hyphenate, and say I am a crossword constructor-editor-blogger.

Random Thoughts & Interesting Things

• ACID (1A: Drug that's "dropped") LSD, commonly known as ACID, was first synthesized in 1938, by a Swiss chemist named Albert Hoffman. Several years later, on April 19, 1943, Albert Hoffman took a dose of LSD, and experienced the first documented ACID trip. The day is referred to as "Bicycle Day" in reference to Albert Hoffman riding a bicycle home from the lab (accompanied by his lab assistant).
• SUB (21A: Classroom temp) Temp here is short for "temporary" rather than "temperature." The use of the shortened form temp in the clue alerts solvers that the answer will also be a shortened form – in this case, SUB for substitute.
• SHIATSU (27A: Japanese "finger pressure" technique) SHIATSU techniques include massage, acupressure, assisted stretching, and joint manipulation. SHIATSU, which became popular in the twentieth century, evolved from another Japanese style of massage known as anma, which dates back to the 1300s. SHIATSU means, "finger pressure" in Japanese.
• SOY (31A: Tempeh protein) Tempeh is made from fermented SOYbeans, and is a good source of protein.
• TED TALK (47A: "Ideas worth spreading" lecture) TED TALKs originated at the TED Conference in 1984. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED TALKs present an idea in 18 minutes or less. Many TED TALKs are now available for viewing online, with the tagline, "ideas worth spreading." This has been the tagline for TED TALKs for about 20 years, but earlier this month, TED TALKs unveiled a new tagline: "Ideas Change Everything." I like it.
• SIREN (68A: Temptress of Greek mythology) In Greek mythology, a SIREN was a creature who used their enchanting singing voice to lure sailors to shipwreck on their islands. Originally, SIRENs were described as a combination of a woman and a bird, but over time their appearance came to be described as women with fish tails who lived in the sea, also known as mermaids.
• OLDER (12D: Like Taylor Swift's album "Lover" vis-a-vis "Midnights") Taylor Swift's albums, Lover and Midnights , were released in 2019 and 2022, respectively, making Lover the OLDER of the two albums. Both Lover and Midnights are OLDER than The Tortured Poets Department , Taylor Swift's 11th studio album, which was released today.
• ROSA (26D: Montgomery bus boycott icon Parks) The Montgomery bus boycott was a protest against the policy of racial segregation on Montgomery, Alabama buses. The boycott began on December 5, 1955, four days after ROSA Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus so a white person could sit down. The Montgomery bus boycott lasted until December 20, 1956, when a Supreme Court decision declared laws that segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
• IDA (34D: NAACP co-founder ___ B. Wells) IDA B. Wells (1862-1931) was an investigative journalist and a co-founder of the NAACP.  In 2020, IDA B. Wells was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching."
• TONES (41D: The Thai language has five) Thai is the official language of Thailand. Thai is a tonal language, that is, various TONES are used to distinguish the meaning of words. A single word may be said with different TONES, and each TONE will change the meaning of the word.
• EMMY (48D: TV award that Zendaya has two of) Zendaya is a model, actress, and singer. Her two EMMY Awards are for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, which she won in 2020 and 2022 for her portrayal of the character Rue Bennett on the TV series Euphoria.
• SCATS (50D: Improvises like Ella Fitzgerald) During her career as a jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) earned the nicknames "First Lady of Song," and "Queen of Jazz." Among other things, she was known for her SCAT-singing , improvising melodies and rhythms with wordless syllables.
• ASTRO (52D: The Jetsons' dog) The Jetsons is an animated TV sitcom that originally aired from 1962-1963, and from 1985-1987. The Jetsons are a family living in Orbit City in the future. The show's theme song introduces the family that live in Orbit City in the future: "Meet George Jetson / His boy, Elroy / Daughter Judy / Jane, his wife." The Jetsons' dog is ASTRO the Space Mutt.
• REEFS (53D: Structures made of coral or sunken ships) REEFS are ridges of material lying beneath the surface of a body of water. Coral REEFS are comprised of living organisms. The colonies of coral are held together by calcium carbonate they secrete. REEFs provide habitat for other marine creatures. Artificial REEFS can be formed by objects such as sunken ships.
• SUN (65D: Connecticut WNBA team) The Connecticut SUN is a professional basketball team established as part of the WNBA's expansion in 1999. The team was originally established as the Orlando Miracle. In 2003, the Mohegan Tribe purchased the team, and moved it to the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, renaming the team the Connecticut SUN. 

Crossword Puzzle Theme Synopsis

There's no theme today, as this is a freestyle, or themeless puzzle. The title, NO RESOLUTION, is a nod to AGREE TO DISAGREE (39A: Copacetic way to end an argument).

In addition to the answers I've highlighted above, I also enjoyed I NEED A HUG, LIFE PARTNER, and STARTER HOME. The grid-spanning AGREE TO DISAGREE is a fabulous answer. Thank you, Dena for this excellent puzzle.

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