Fish McNuggets would be fun, especially if McDonald’s described them as Cod Piece(s).ĭo Boomers solvers hear The Marshall Tucker Band singing Can’t You See or am I alone there? I struggled with Artsiness being clued Pretentious Display, wanting Artsy Mess. Back in the day when refs called traveling but might miss a subtle punch in the face.
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Hakeem, who played in my all-time favorite NBA final, the 1986 series between the Rockets and Celtics. Magic Shop C., same) and Risk Taker had me all Asimmer. It's a beauty.Īfter my initial panic attack at seeing the grid, there was much to love here. Just didn't have enough high points for me. It was a proper Saturday workout for sure. This is very much a case of my aversion to the physical form of the grid coupled with my highly personal, probably idiosyncratic distaste for much of the content of the grid, as well as the cluing.
What's the last place I would ever find myself, question mark? That's right, a MAGIC SHOP (1A: Tricky spot to be in?).
And things fell from there, but not with any great revelations. And those three new letters, oddly, broke the whole quadrant open. Finally (finally!) I got *some* god to fit in the -AS section ( ATLAS!). Thank god I knew HAKEEM, or I'd really have had no traction in that corner. My guess is that most actual RISKTAKERs have zero awareness of that concept. Figured "Fortune favors the brave" was the motto of some org. Then there's the other end of the spectrum-the topic I know nothing and care nothing about: PORSCHES! (9D: Taycan and Macan) And corporate logos ("implied" umbrella?!?). "Scanning" is common to lots and lots of lyric poetry it's not particular to the "sonnet." So deflating to get such a general term after getting such a specific clue.
this is probably more than you want to go into right now.). I guess SCANs just means "has a regular meter." This is obviously a case of my being (way) too close to the material. *All* poetry in the period that I teach (~1300-1700) SCANs (of course early on in the period you still have the odd alliterative poem, but. and I'm out." I deal with poetic meter in detail, all semester long, and yet I've never once asked myself if a poem SCANs or not. And yet faced with the clue 6D: What classic sonnets do, I had no idea. From Petrarch to Donne, I really do have the sonnet form covered. I teach "classic sonnets" (not a term I'd use) every single semester. Very appropriate that one of the very few answers I had up there was IRKS (and *that* was a total guess). I've heard it used metaphorically, I guess, but, well, it's no ATHLEISURE (one of the few longer answers outside the SE that I was excited to see) ( 26A: Fashion trend embraced by Fendi and Versace). SEVENTH SON? ( 27D: Potentially prophetic child). But it was hard to get excited about much else in the grid. From YESMAN around to CODPIECE, that corner works really really well. The whole stack of Acrosses at the bottom is solid, especially " IT WASN'T ME" and CAN'T UNSEE, which are wonderful. Here, there is just the one less-than-stellar answer ( LIM.) and that answer makes possible a whole array of great longer answers. At its best, it's pretty good-that SE corner on its own is really impressive, and impressively smooth. When your grid requires you to use APISHLY (!?!), a word no human being has ever actually used and which even the clue doesn't seem to know the meaning of ( 12D: How an imitator or silly person acts), the rest of that grid better be sterling, and of course is demanding grids like this it never is. These low word-count, super-segmented, boxy, essentially four-part (four-quadrant) puzzles are always more Hard than they are Fun, and today's was no exception. I took one look at this grid and knew it wasn't going to be my cup of tea. Short write-up today as I have things to do before I head up to Ithaca and hang out with a certain all-star crossword constructor (and lovely human being).
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