EGRET! OK, I clearly have nothing left to say about this puzzle. ESAI ESAI had a farm, EIEIO! And on that farm he had an. All of these every bit as "good" as EAT LUNCH. EAT LUNCH comes damn close to EAT A SANDWICH perfection. I typically use EAT A SANDWICH as the (made-up, never actually seen) paradigmatic "green paint" phrase (that is, a phrase you might say in conversation but that is not nearly strong enough to stand alone as a crossword answer). EAT LUNCH is up there with the dumbest longest answers I've seen. Not sure how I can be such a big NO DICE! fan and such a non- NO SOAP! fan, but here we are. ![]() NO SOAP is a SNERD-era expression, but I got it easily because I've been doing crosswords forever and it's a phrase I've come to expect from crosswords (and literally only crosswords) ( 105A: "Outta luck!"). I spelled CUTIE thusly, instead of the way the grid wanted (i.e. Needed most every cross to get COIL, largely because "spring" has so many different possible meanings ( 20A: Spring feature). I didn't know that NEWTS "scurried," but now I do, I guess ( 7D: Scurriers near streams). Nothing horrible, really, just absolutely average fill, as far as the eye can see (oh, except STLEOI, which is, in fact, horrible) (16D: Canonized fifth-century pope called "the Great"). But most of the grid is pretty much just paint, drying. Oh, and I liked the clue on SWEATERS (39D: Ugly ones sometimes come out in December). ![]() the far east, where BODY ODOR and SCIATICA are doing a little DOSIDO of sadness. I do like the ailments section of the grid, i.e. information that allows you to orient yourself somewhat. It's like when the pilot suddenly announces your ETA after you haven't been paying attention for a while-it's interesting information, perhaps slightly surprising (you were really into the third season of "Gilmore Girls" and lost track of time), but, you know, it didn't make you laugh or think or anything. Not in that aha rush kind of way that you're supposed to get the theme. Like a joke you have to explain to someone and then they "get" it but not really. Had to go back and see the cluing pattern. Word of the Day: ANAIS Mitchell ( 121A: _ Mitchell, creator of the Tony-winning musical "Hadestown") -Īs for the puzzle-Finished this one superfast and sincerely had no idea what the theme was, even after I was done.
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