37A OH NO! – Surprised the famous speed skater isn’t referenced here!.25A GATTACA – Anybody else spell it GATTICA like I did at first?.1A RAGU – Who is R&B Foods, you ask? This website explains all, but basically the “R” is for Ragu and the “B” is for Bertolli.
I will stop raving incoherently now and examine a few clues more closely! Barry makes excellent themeless puzzles, and this one is no different. HENBANE at 42A didn’t come to me as quickly as I would like, or the time may have been even better. Time was just over 7 minutes, so not bad, especially since I wasn’t really racing through this one. Another very solid LAT puzzle, with great fill and clues.
I still was able to start in the upper left and slowly work my way around the puzzle to the eventual end. I will explain in the comments, but it’s a good clue. Silk’s LA Times crossword – Derek’s write-upĪs is usually the case, One Across is slightly difficult. This town of 15,000 hosted some post-WWI treaty negotiations in 1925.īarry C. Plural HES, I’d always prefer a possessive HE’S clue. LONGING EYES feels entirely contrived to me. The plural DRUG WARS feels a little off-I saw Sicario and there was a lot about Mexican and Colombian cartels, but I’m not recalling this phrase. On the down side, DO TO A TEE, while legit, looks sort of ugly in the grid.
SPEED READER OF A SORT WSJ CROSSWORD SERIES
I know Sha Na Na is a retro (and mostly forgotten) pop-culture reference, but at least that BOWSER is completely fact-based.įavorite fill includes good ol’ ACID-WASH, SELFIE STICK, MADE IN CHINA, “HOW’S LIFE?”, PYRENEES, “BRING IT!”, MOONROOF, SERIES FINALE, and ROSE CEREMONY. Ha! On Tuesday, I made fun of the NYT puzzle for using “Bowser” to mean “generic dog,” and now we see that the editor was just setting us up to accept BOWSER clued as if this is what people actually name dogs. The “jump” sort of vault, not the “bank safe” type. I first thought of airline pilots and the verb. I think this works both for air pockets and for clothing or bag pockets that happen to be empty. NY Times crossword solution, 2 6 16, no 0206įirst up in this 70-worder: Clues of note.
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