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The Verified Answer for Sovereign land, so to speak is:
- SOIL
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Hint 1: Clue Explanation
▼“Sovereign land, so to speak.” The answer to this one was SOIL. I didn’t know why. I scanned XWordInfo.com for all the other gazillion clues constructors in The New York Times have used for SOIL. Nada. I dispatched Wordplay to the Flex Desk, the Times team that juggles thousands of articles each week in the post-copy-desk era. When I retrieved the file, I found an unexpected bonus, a comment in the margin that said: “For what it’s worth, “soil” is a sort of metonym for a given country’s territory — e.g., “The 9/11 attacks were the first offensive action by a foreign enemy on American soil since. …” So, effusive thanks to Eric Morse, whose modest flex cleared everything up.