Like Mo Yan, she was a Literature Nobelist (1993).ĭaylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half. This passage is by TONI MORRISON, born Feb. Are ECCO shoes exported? If not, I may be one of the lucky few to know the name - I bought a comfy pair the last time I was in Copenhagen. That was enough to make that section unsolvable, so – dang. I’ve never heard of Kelly CHOI (and kept alternately putting in and taking out “Ripa” there), for the life of me I couldn’t come up with SESH, and I had no idea about TREE GODS. The area that felled me was the SW corner. I agree with Rachel now that it’s all over – it is a clever theme, well executed. I’m also one of those who didn’t get the theme while solving, so multiple demerit points today. Sad to say, I was not on this puzzle’s wavelength, resulting in a DNF. Alas, this is not it.įlogging the deceased equine again, but I don't like the revealer in the middle. The puzzle as a whole had some good crunch for a Thursdee, but give me the 5-star meal on Fridee or Saturdee and leave Thursdee to creative shenanigans. And all the clues worked with all the entries, so I have to admit that kicks it up a notch or two.Īnd yet.no joy in Slothville. Well, at least the clues and answers made sense in both directions.so there's that. I don't ski - is that what the getup is called? Seems odd.Īs for the theme, you gotcher TV-in-the-circles trick, fill all of them in and wait to get around to the clues for all the "fun". There is only the one.but, one looky-loo clue is 2 too many.Īnd oh, dear God! Please tell me they didn't do that at 46A! ARGH!! Why don't we just CLEAVE CHE and leave it at that, hmm? Anyways, this is a long paragraph to say that this theme grew on me immensely over the last hour or so. Another impressive thing about this theme is that the themers *aren't* symmetrical, which I think some people might count against this grid, but I actually think this adds an extra layer of complexity to placing the black squares. If I had to bet, I'd say this was probably the starting point of the theme for the constructor, who may have noticed the similarities in their names and occupations and built this theme around it (I'm going to read constructor notes after I write this post, so I'll hopefully know whether I'm right soon enough). But CARTER/ CARVER! The sheer cleverness! President Jimmy CARTER, who sold his peanut farm to avoid the possibility of maybe someday appearing to be in violation of the emoluments clause, and George Washington CARVER, the scientist and inventor known for his work with peanuts, are both s. I think TARNISH/ VARNISH is probably the weakest pair, just because they are so closely related, and yet received such an underwhelming clue. I revisited the first circled square I had confidently stuck REMOTE into and realized, aha! If you parse "Separate" as a verb in, then REMOVE works here too!Īnd so, much against my will, I began to love this puzzle. And then I became slightly cranky again, because I doubt that -ISH qualifier is necessary a party after the Oscars is straight-up LATE! But the cleverness of the gimmick had begun to sink in. Oscars parties ARE (presumably, though I have never been to one to confirm) LAVISH. And, almost against my will, I chuckled. "Oh, it's one of *those* puzzles," I thought, crankily deciding to use the T for ANTI-TAX instead of having the delusional ANTI-VAXshow up on my screen. I think it's entirely possible that some solvers will finish this puzzle without detecting the theme at all, even with the revealer! And when I finally did notice the theme, I felt pretty lukewarm about it. As can sometimes be the case with Schrödinger grids, I straight-up didn't notice that there was anything going on with the circled squares until I got to the very last theme entry. Starting out, I was confused by this puzzle.
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