Charlie Savage

Any inexperienced person might be informally be called a newb(ie) in many contexts, but feel like the version specific to gamer subculture is usually spelled “noob” or “n00b” rather than “newb”

As a former resident of South Beach when I worked for The Miami Herald, I can attest that the Florida city with a South Beach neighborhood is Miami Beach, a separate municipality from the city of Miami across Biscayne Bay - different mayor, different police force, etc. Same school system across Miami-Dade County though (one of my old beats).

"Dominates Slangily" should not be OWNS but rather PWNS. One of the definitions of "own" may be to have power or mastery over, as in wanting to own one's own life, but if it is clued in terms of slang, it is necessarily a reference to the term online gamers have popularized for trouncing an opponent, and that version is spelled with a p. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pwn" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pwn</a>

I got going in the upper right quadrant and so when I got to 21 across (“pop quizzes?”) saw _ _ _ _ _ NITYTESTS That seemed to solve perfectly to a rather crassly ribald joke I couldn’t believe had made it through editing.