46a – My dad really wanted me to get an EBIKE when I started grad school, but I insisted on my good ole fashioned bicycle.Usually, since I’m a slow solver, it’s anybody’s guess where I’ll fill in first, but I was pretty top to bottom on this one. I really liked how open this grid was, and I felt like it flowed nicely, especially in the corners. It wasn’t until I went back and figured out AT PEACE WITH that the rebus became apparent. I first filled in OUTER SPACE for SPACE STATION, which fit perfectly, but it quickly became apparent that it was incorrect. BEQ recommended the paper version, and if I’d access to a printer, I’d have 100% done that, but the little aces in the applet are cute. I love playing cards, so I was pretty pumped to see the title of this grid. Theme: Each theme answer contains ACE as a rebusīrendan Emmett Quigley’s Crossword #1487, “Is This Your Card?” solution for Lastly, I wonder how many of us started reading, GECKO and put GEIKO in…īrendan Emmett Quigley’s Crossword #1487, “Is This Your Card?”-Darby’s review , STORKS was another punchy misdirecting clue. Sneaky! Other fun clues included, AMNESIA and, SIR even if the latter was a riff on the former. Got a “huh? oh?” moment early on with, EDIT. It’s unusual to only do three examples in a theme like this, but if it means the rest of the puzzle is better, I’m for it. , ANDMARKSTUDY is brilliant and the other two function:, AIDTOREST and, ENDSAHAND. I have never heard, nor I could I imagine a situation where I could, the phrase JUSTTAKETHEL, but it’s inferable I suppose. Today’s puzzle by Karen Lurie features letter subtraction, an L always from the opening letter of each phrase to be precise. Karen Lurie’s LA Times crossword – Gareth’s summary Kinda want to watch it!ģ.9 stars for me today. Have never heard of the movie Happiness nor its director, TODD Solondz, but it looks like an interesting movie. I think the P is a dangerous cross in those last two, especially for newer solvers. PILLOW is the only one of the group whose purpose is something completely different.įound the fill trickier than normal for Universal, particularly in the MODEL T / ADEPO / EP area. In the others, the definition of the “bedhead” word completely changes. PILLOW TALK seems to be a bit of an outlier as I’m pretty sure the definition of PILLOW doesn’t change from the base phrase to the altered phrase. I like how each of the “bedhead” words becomes a noun, where they were adjectives/verbs in the base phrase. The only gimme for me was BLANKET APPROVAL, because Linus is synonymous with BLANKET in my mind. Each city is embedded in a straightforward answer to a straightforward clue. No one wants to read my handwriting (anyone who’s judged my papers at ACPT is nodding). Since I solved on paper, I’m giving you Peter’s grid.
That’s kind of how I feel about this puzzle. On my third Google attempt to find the other two, I decided I wasn’t that interested. I know one for sure and I confirmed another. The red and blue squares contain the names of cities in France that (I presume) are part of the race. I solved on paper per Peter’s suggestion and I don’t think it was worth the ink to have the colored squares in the theme answers. Last week’s themeless seemed a bit harder to me than the recent run of Fireball puzzles. I only interpreted it as a synonym of “a great many” as opposed to the past tense of “slay.”īojan Koprivica’s Fireball Crossword, “Spin Cycle” – Jenni’s write-up This clue helped to make that SE corner a challenge. I did not think horses until after I filled in all the crossings. Sounds like a multi-headed toilet bowl cleanser.) (But the OREO is still a ripoff of the Hydrox, which-I gotta say-is a terrible name for a cookie. Apparently “Chelsea” is referring to the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan where Nabisco once had a factory. Here’s hoping we don’t see it again in a puzzle anytime soon. Apparently, the initials stand for centimeter-gram-second, and the system is a variant of the metric system. I don’t think I’ve ever seen CGS before in crosswords or IRL. I also liked LOYOLA, PROUST, and ACCOLADE. Some fun fill in the middle (away from the theme answers) in the form of MIDDLE CHILD and LIGHT SABERS. Throw in some Thursday-level cluing and this proved to be a somewhat meaty challenge. I definitely started with a few missteps before grokking the theme, but that added to the fun of the aha moment. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term “passion pit.” That made that last corner more of a challenge even knowing the theme by that point. It wasn’t until later that I realized what was going on. 13d. I thought that was a nice way to begin the grid until I had to remove it for the seemingly generic MANAGER. I actually tried PIT BOSS here at the start and it fit.
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