Maybe there just aren’t any other good 4-letter options? Feels weird that I was able to fill this in right away. Would have preferred a ‘perhaps’ qualifier here. I feel as if I should’ve known this immediately. But when I hear it said that way unironically … Sometimes it’s fun to rhyme this with myopic. Completed this as SAY(-) SO without looking at the clue, which necessitated hunting it up after the grid was completely filled in, to achieve a correct notification. Better read without the definite article, but then the pun/misdirection is lost. 5d THE PIANO, symmetrical to 90d TRUE GRIT.The trigram TEN is inserted, to wacky effect. Zhouqin Burnikel’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Perfect Game” - pannonica’s write-up Who’s got the Hercules song stuck in their head now? (I did not realize how much that movie got stuck in the head of folks about 10-15 years younger than I am until I saw Gottmik of Drag Race S13 claim Sundial Guy as her inspiration for this lewk.) I am here for clues with esoteric-seeming vocabulary that actually contains enough information (the “vini” in “vinifera,” in this case) to suss things out. I think I saw Coco in theaters about three weeks after it came out and “Frozen Adventure” was already gone. This is not actually a highlight except that it made me remember with a snort how that not-short “short” was so audience-detested that it was quickly pulled from its pairing with Coco. 54A is NON-APOLOGY, which, like FEATURETTE, feels evergreen and yet not something I’ve seen a million times before.39A is a great, if not tricky enough to slow me down, clue for ALLERGEN.37A is a fresh-feeling angle on LEAVE A NOTE.This is a great example of the kind of entry I wish there were more of in puzzles: I don’t think I’ve ever filled it in in the tens of thousands of solves I’ve done in my lifetime, and yet that is not because it’s a piece of pop culture whose 15 minutes were happening while the puzzle was being submitted and are already over by the time the puzzle runs. “Quaint”? You calling me old? Because I totally put coins in arcade slots back in the day. (2:28? C’mon, it’s Saturday.) Some highlights: The clues, although there are some gems, leave something to be desired - namely, difficulty. Los Angeles Times 10/15/22 by Enrique Henestroza Anguiano I learned why this week, from the Netflix series Never Have I Ever: Both CalTech and MIT have beaver mascots because the animal is “nature’s engineer.” CalTech teams are the Beavers, though.Įnrique Henestroza Anguiano’s Los Angeles Times crossword - Stella’s write-up But their mascot is a beaver rather than an engineer. Turns out to be some old woman-hating nonsense, god forbid someone wreck the magical powers by having a daughter along the way.įave fill: MAGIC SHOP, “IT WASN’T ME,” CAN’T UNSEE, ATHLEISURE, PORSCHES (not that I’d ever heard of the ), SPACE CADET.Ĭan’t unsee but wish I could: APISHLY, ASIMMER. 1015Ĭool grid, with those quad-stacked 9s and sort of a racetrack flow through the puzzle.įirst up: Did we all laugh when (“Chalice? Grail? Goblet?”) turned out to be a CODPIECE? More importantly, why aren’t athletic cups called codpieces? It’s a piece to protect your … cod. NY Times crossword solution, 10 15 22, no.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |