Split Personalities: Harper's, February 2021

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ChrisKochmanski
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Split Personalities: Harper's, February 2021

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Another fun Richard E. Maltby, Jr. variety cryptic. Got the magazine in the mail today and did the puzzle this afternoon. Just checking the Harper's website, I don't yet see the puzzle there -- the January puzzle seems to be the last one posted. Either way, you need to be a subscriber.
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Still awaiting magazine....might be Tuesday at the earliest for me for either the magazine or website update.
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And the website updated.
Downloaded the puzzle (as I still await the physical magazine)
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I did this one in one sitting, which is unusual for me. Very enjoyable as always.
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Agree...just wrapped it up myself.
Nice night cap this evening.
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Wrapped this one today, lots of fun as always.. But could someone explain the wordplay on 1 Down to me please? Thanks!
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Fun puzzle as always, but did anyone else notice a mistake/misspelling in one of the down entries? The last time I found a mistake in one of these was the month I won the drawing for the free 1-year Harper’s subscription, so keeping my fingers crossed!
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I’m thinking you’re right, and that 14D is misspelled as clued. Perhaps Mr. Maltby meant to indicate that the entry was a variant, but didn’t. An oversight? Whatever the case, I wish you good luck with history repeating itself.
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Going back to last month’s puzzle, Fantasyland — the one with those pesky blank squares. I figured out how to fill the blanks, but it turns out I missed a rather large fantasy land: Heaviside Layer, rising SW to NE on the diagonal. This was the largest hidden entry, and I completely missed it, filling the box in with “z” — completing “Oz,” begun by the “o” above and to the left. I wonder if that occurred to anyone else?
I think I completed Split Personalities correctly.
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