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Constructor: Tracy Gray

Relative problem: Easy

THEME: “MY BAD!” (62A: “Oopsie!” … and a touch to the ends of 18-, 25-, 39- and 50-Across) — theme reply ends with phrases that *can* imply “error” (however do not within the themers themselves):

Theme solutions:

• OLE MISS (18A: ‘Bama rival)
• DEPOSIT SLIP (25A: Bit of banking documentation)
• SAN ANDREAS FAULT (39A: Cause of many California earthquakes)
• HONEY BOO-BOO (50A: Former moniker of actuality TV youngster star Alana Thompson)

Word of the Day: CHAPPAQUA (11D: Town in Westchester County, N.Y., the place the Clintons dwell) —

Chappaqua ( CHAP-ə-kwah) is a hamlet and census-designated place within the city of New Castle, in northern Westchester County, New York, United States. It is roughly 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City. The hamlet is served by the Chappaqua station of the Metro-North Railroad‘s Harlem Line. In the New York State Legislature it’s inside the New York State Assembly‘s 93rd district and the New York Senate‘s fortieth district. In Congress the village is in New York’s seventeenth District.

Chappaqua was based by a gaggle of Quakers within the 1730s and was the house of Horace Greeley, New-York Tribune editor and U.S. congressman. Since the late Nineteen Nineties, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have lived there. (wikipedia)

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First of all, congrats to the NYTXW on three days in a row with puzzles by solo ladies. In a simply world, this might imply the NYTXW had SHOT PAR (three to 4 solo ladies in per week being roughly what one should anticipate), however given their horrible monitor file, effectively, good for them. And as for at present’s puzzle, yeah, OK, this’ll do. It’s not probably the most thrilling theme idea, however it’s bought a cool / uncommon mirror symmetry format, with OLE MISS being in a very unexpectedly thematic place, in order that was a enjoyable factor to find. Funny that we simply had “MY B!” for a solution on Saturday, after which bam, right here it’s, in its longer (extra “formal?”) incarnation, because the Monday revealer. I cringed at HONEY BOO-BOO as a result of that present simply looks as if the worst type of exploitation TV, and I’d reasonably not keep in mind it, however I do not know what different reply is on the market that ends with BOO BOO, or some slangy equal, so I can tolerate a small cringe in a coherent and curiously offered themer set. The fill is available in a bit on the stale aspect, however not inedibly so. And although I do not give a rattling the place the Clintons dwell, I feel CHAPPAQUA is a colourful geographical entry—a really good use of an extended Down.