The wise old scholars of Pi Day Town hand you some mysterious circular grids.
One sage hid something in this mosaic, but she dropped it and the pieces went everywhere.
The presence or absence of a shaded trapezoid on a piece is simply to facilitate cutting it out and not intended to be clueful.
Clues
- Verb with “all hope”
- “That was no ______ !”
- What Darth Vader does to deals
- Where some current flows
- Dvořák opening?
- Durin’s Bane, e.g.
- Common transaction on Catan
- Film superhero most recently portrayed by Ben Affleck
- Color of a Federal Reserve Board “Book”
- Sony discontinued this in March 2016
- It might be good when it’s sick
- Howie Mandel and Alex Trebek
- Salmon with a big bill
- Steals a dance partner from (3 wds.)
- Wine receptacle
- In math, it has a point?
- Surname of father and daughter with adjoining stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Instrument that puts a Minotaur in play, in Magic: The Gathering
- Biblical seamstress
- Moved away from the shore
- “Speak, friend, and ______”
- Class act?
- Give the same fate as Hagrid or Scamander
- Northern hemisphere?
- Takes no notice of
- Charged particles
- Wrinkle-free
- Brassica oleracea cultivar
- Surgical instrument with a journal named after it
- Starbucks order, perhaps
- Densely populated world capital originally known as “King’s Island”
- Grupo known for a namesake beer
- Last word in yoga
- How one might serve #32 (2 wds.)
- _____ Boogie
- First or third
- Brando’s understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire
- A chef’s is refined
- Company whose 2019 Color of the Year is Living Coral (“this life-affirming shade invites us to reach out and touch”)
- Evelyn Glennie is a notably deaf one
- Strait of Malacca danger
- Palindromic M*A*S*H character
- College student’s go-to meal
- NIN frontman
- First American woman in space
- “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” group
- Wielder of Durendal
- Bee town
- Storm, Imp, and their ilk
- Savage, for one
- Another name for dinkel wheat
- Recordholder for most Academy Award acting nominations
- Hurt, as a hallux
- Holy city?
- StarCraft race known for its “rush”
One sage found a marvelous clue for you, but some parts of this grid were too small to contain it.
Clues
- Shakira’s 1995 Latin Pop chart-topper (2 wds.)
- Big place for a Little House?
- One of the Homoioi
- Structural motif first identified in the aspartic protease family (2 wds.)
- Black & Decker or DeWalt
- Member of a Russian-Finnish group associated with the Komi
- Designer who patented the Spiral Mushroom System (2 wds.)
- In some parasitic infections, developmental stage following trophozoite
- Organic particle effects plug-in once made by DigiEffects
- Only world capital with two time zones
- Smart aleck’s remark
- Ladder-like part of a ship’s rigging
- Amend soil, as to help your rocket or courgette crop grow
- The Arkansas and Illinois, vis a vis the Mississippi
- “Finding” follower
- There’s one in NW12
- It opens with Nicole Kidman saying “Now children, are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.” (2 wds.)
- Marine celebrity? (2 wds.)
- Forbes venture capitalist ranking (2 wds.)
- Most limp
- Having thin handles (hyph.)
- Cold-blooded creature
- Placed at a base
- Reindeer-herding dog
- Michael Phelps, e.g.
- Maker of avant-garde hip-hop, like Open Mike Eagle (hyph.)
- Put into beforehand
- Not yet rejected by a lover
- ℤ in ℝ, e.g. (2 wds.)
- Epithet for a rural town, perhaps
- Aligned with the nave, rather than the altar
- Makes a Lenten promise, e.g.
- Soaps up again
- Kind of commutative algebra mapping, or best possible Cheers character? (2 wds.)
- Small celestial objects or planetoids
- Like the number one, in song
Outer Ring
- 5 mL
- Mass. 9 or U.S. 20
- Sick
- Merlin’s nemesis Madam ______
- Editorial insertion marks
- Runner Sebastian
- In the middle, in Middlesex
- Kendall/MIT, e.g.
- Copy another’s exam
- Golf ball’s position
- Antipodean parrot
- Scott Pruitt’s former dept.
- A toorie bunnet
One wise old left you a mes, but he was very self-effacing about it.
Clues
- Sanntleman’s headwear
- Italian supermini launched in 1983 (2 wds.)
- _____ least (2 wds., uncommon)
- At a certain year of one’, from the Latin
- A Schengen vits you into one (abbr.)
- Newncy headquartered on Canary Wharf
- Requested but not yet received, as goods by a businesnt (2 wds.)
- He’ophysics professor at MIT
- Company founded by Alexandros Bakatselod 27
- Eliorgiou, e.g.
- For a short time (2 wds.)
- Force (someone) to deal with (2 wds.)
- Made a certain shot, in hockey
- Imputed, as a fault (obs.)
- Moved or passed quickly
- Administer, as a do
- Welcome gas station sign, for a driver with a flat (2 wds.)
- Device for preparing meat for sau
- With “net,” denotenerator/consumer on an electric grid
- Decisive vote for a party’nda
- Term for “free practice” in judo
- On paper, like the works of Le
- Point to accesographical area, perhaps
- Bannais wines and other spirits (2 wds.)
- James Shakeshaft and Alasdair Beckett-King podcast
- Magazine where Jamee worked after college
- States attained by Japanese s
- Like Matchbox or Corgi cars (hyph.)
- Theologian and who wrote the Serenity Prayer
- Pas from Britain to France
- Federer or Nadal (in uncommon u)
- The seed of canary grass (var.)
- Like a target of PETA’nts, clothing-wise (hyph.)
- Karagheusian factory alluded to in Springsteen’s “My Hometown” (2 wds.)
- More like a light vi
- Say or do again
The sages didn’t give you any instructions about what to do with this grid. Or did they?
Clues
- One piece at the beach?
- Simian
- On the Edge author Michael
- Towel fabrics
- Second shot
- Capital whose name comes from the Maasai for “cool water”
- Game featuring Zz Badnusty
- Stepped aside, in a way
- Dispute
- Stole from a deacon
- Niña, for one
- Head of Global Creative Strategy at Facebook (2 wds.)
- C20H14NO4+
- Enter as a crab might (2 wds.)
- Place with two rulers
- Sheet material
- Most common variety of WWII U-boat (2 wds.)
- Carrying on
- Vandal, often
- Like a trencherman’s plate
- Confused (3 wds.)
- Photojournalist Lynsey
- Toothless and Mushu, e.g.
- Raptors’ home
- Comic by Kagari Tamaoka
- Appointed as, as a government position (2 wds.)
- Office component
- Heartfelt
- Picked up the tab
- Atmospheric gases cleaned to remove almost all impurities (2 wds.)
- Most steeply angled golf club that is not a wedge (2 wds.)
- Final gesture of approval (2 wds.)
- Prior portrayer
- Coastal village (2 wds.)
- Like wine or cheese that improves over time
- Laughed nervously