I enjoyed this one about as much as yesterday's: parts of it sang, parts of it croaked. Promoting youth and new blood is one thing, providing a consistently superior product is quite another. or even a Krozelesque stunt puzzle than some of these not-quite-ready-for-prime-time efforts. I'd rather see the quality of Berry, Wilber, Silk, et al. I get depressed when I see this much junk fill in Fri-Sat themelesses that are supposed to be the best of the week. The 11-stacks were great if I could've ignored the downs running through them: HAHAS, OLAN and OLIN, TYRO, JONY, EKE, ZICAM etc. Had -CAFE and had to really think about it. From FRAG, I ran across grid via GET THE WRONG IDEA and then up to NE, where I briefly struggled with MCCAFE (I don't.
w/ a grenade" distinction between "assault" and "kill" seems at least moderately important). (Dictionaries are telling me that FRAG actually means "kill a commanding officer, usu. And that's what happened, though I wrote in FRAK for 22D: Assault, as a commanding officer, and had No Idea who that Canadian Bob guy was. Always great to have the top letters in place in any bank of answers-drastically increases the likelihood you'll be able to drop the Downs and finish off a section expeditiously. if/when I get them, they'll have given me the front end of that central grid-spanner. I've got the first letters, so there's a higher probability I'll get them than any other answer in the grid, at least at first glance and b. and the NW was pretty much done in a couple minutes.įrom here, the obvious move is to check out the F and B crosses in FBI CASES, so I did that. than 56, but plowed forward anyway) and that mostly-right answer got me RIME, which made it easy to see MERRIEST, which made for an easy hop from B-M. I threw BIB down immediately, though I wasn't certain.
ANOTCH and ORLESS are really too long to be partials, but I did a (mainstream!) puzzle yesterday that had ONAANDE and MYDUST in it, so it's hard for anything to faze me much right now. I don't know what a BARREL CHAIR is, but then again I don't know who Sir JONY Ive is, either, and I'm being mocked on social media for it right now, so maybe BARREL CHAIRs are as ubiquitous as iPhones and I've just been blind. "Nice stack" is now making me laugh because it sounds like an objectifying, sexist remark, but isn't.
I guess that is a lot of damage for one stack to cause, but it *is* a nice stack. I MEAN, REALLY, that is a nice NW stack, even if you do have to go through BARIC (?) and HAHAS (ugh) and the weird crosswordese twins OLAN and OLIN to get it. The stacks are sparkly and worth the occasional bump and bruise in the shorter crosses.
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