Anyone here successfully make it through that one? And if I did, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have finished. I never had to read Ulysses while working on my English degree. Finally, a glance at the title made me realize the word “back” had been removed from familiar phrases to create the theme entries. The theme entries seemed familiar, but obviously they weren’t quite right. Jeffrey Wechsler’s Universal crossword, “Back Out”-Jim P’s reviewįor whatever reason, I didn’t take note of the title before completing the grid. This was such a fun puzzle, and I had a great time starting my day with it. 67a – My first thought with bounce houses goes to stitches because I got stitches from one, but a LEAK is much more common, I think.This was also one of several hunger-inducing clues in this puzzle, including BARBECUE, 66a IFTAR, 2d FAVA, COLAS, CHIP (though clued as related to poker), and MENU (as related to spas but still). You can learn more about it and check out the recipe here.

41a – OFADA stew is typically made with red peppers and a variety of meats and is served with rice and banana leaves.

Would definitely recommend spending some time with both of these poets. Mary Lambert is the author of Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across. Sina Queyras is most recently the author of My Ariel and MxT, among several award-winning volumes and seem very cool.

14a – My first thought was ALTOS, since I know that Mary Lambert is a singer (and I quite like her music), but POETS was a great discovery.

I think that this works well here, given that the northwest is where we start a puzzle, and I loved filling in BARBECUE and OVERSTAYS (as I always do with longer answers). The little change in symmetry leaves us with a more wide open corner in the upper left part of the grid and a tighter corner in the bottom right. YOU’RE THE BEST is also such a fun answer.įill-wise, this is only slightly asymmetric, with two additional black squares added under YOU’RE THE BEST.

I also thought that this one was very CLEVER and especially adored the use of BRAILLE DISPLAY because accessibility is super important. I’ve been living this week with the number of puzzles with Down theme answers. Theme: The last–and lowest–word of each theme answer can go before “case.”īrooke Husic’s USA Today crossword, “Lower Cases” solution for It features in a lot of iconography as well, as you might imagine.īrooke Husic’s USA Today crossword, “Lower Cases”-Darby’s write-up The one that Buddha famously sat under, Ficus religiosa. Just recently rewatched The Emperor’s New Groove. Some of the pricey modern automated ones advertise that they are odorless. We have a commenter who has mentioned that the singular of INUIT is INUK, so perhaps this inclusion will please them and others. Probably most famous for her role in Goddard’s À bout de souffle ( Breathless). Again, that isn’t an indictment, just an observation. This feels as if it’s been done before, possibly multiple times. Do you know a solid connection between buns and nets?Įmet Ozar & Matthew Stock’s Los Angeles Times crossword - pannonica’s write-up I think this is about a hair bun, but I can’t be sure. As in “the name a person is known by on the street” and not the name of a thoroughfare. Terrible fill! Partly because it’s a French word that most Americans will never encounter, and partly because I hate the whole anise/licorice/fennel flavor family. What a great clue! Daryl Hall of pop/soul fame, and his closest collaborator, John OATES. An older guy I had half a crush on used to sing it to me when I was 12.) (A far better “Amie” song is the 1975 tune below, by Pure Prairie League. Unexpected to cross a Dutch band’s song with 12d. Apparently the band’s Dutch and they never had another hit in the US. Never heard of the song, nor the band Tee-Set. 0729įave fill: BASIC CABLE, “IT’S ME AGAIN,”, TAMRON Hall, “I SPOKE TOO SOON,” “DRINKS ARE ON ME,” APRIL FOOLS, PLOT DEVICE, RIM SHOTS, BAG OF TRICKS, “COME ON DOWN!,” and POOH-POOH. NY Times crossword solution, 7 29 22, no.

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