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Stella Zawistowski’s USA Today crossword, “Room at the Bottom”-Matthew’s write-up Coming to 55d RMS, I realize that there are a lot of acronyms and initialisms in this crossword.I know I’ve mentioned it in these pages previously. I still use the adjective crepitant to describe it since first encountering it in a novel many years ago. Preceded by shrimp, canned tuna, and salmon followed in the top ten by Alaska pollock, cod, crab, catfish, pangasius, and scallops. Bestowal would have been a more accurate choice, but would have somewhat ruined the misdirection. In English it’s practically a bound morpheme, appearing in the phrase poet manqué. Ooh, I’ve just found the throwback helmet and it’s magnificent. Was briefly wondering if there was a variant spelling of BRONY. If I’m not mistaken, white burgundies are still pinot noir grapes. Despite the German name being a direct COGNATE (41a) of white burgundy, I believe it’s a different varietal. Nevertheless, there were enough clues that were straightforward *enough* to verify crossings and get things rolling-and continuing-rather easily. Took a run-through to notice that 62a STEIG wasn’t cartoonist/author William but STING. Time would have been even a bit faster had I not erred at 50d by putting in SWORE rather than SWORN. This one bent to my will rather easily, and surprisingly. Anyone else have ABAFT first?Īnna Stiga’s Newsday crossword, Saturday Stumper - pannonica’s write-up

55a NAMES Bywaters is also a name, but not of the same sort. 69d Military mind game, for short] PSYOP might also qualify. The answer seems like a reply, which is not how crossword clues work.

Favorite clues, back-to-back: 18a TOUR.

Not a WOW theme, but it gets the job done. REPLYING IN BED ( lying in bed, which also works for the clue). In fact, they’re inserted quite openly into original phrases, altering their meanings. They aren’t so secret, these agents, or REPs. My one beef is that it’s a bit too easy for Saturday!ĭavid Alfred Bywaters’ Wall Street Journal crossword, “Secret Agents” - pannonica’s write-up

61A feels fresh as a clue for that old standby, EGO.

is sneakily referring to the fact that 1-Across refers to herself, that’s, like, mega- META.

27A for CRIME reminds me that I’ve heard excellent things about the book and should get around to reading it at some point.

This clue neatly honors Sojourner Truth for making a speech about important ideas while referring instead to a work by another writer so as not to imply that AIN’T I A WOMAN is verbatim from Truth. A fellow constructor tipped me off a while back that Truth’s famous speech probably ought not be referred to by that name, given that it comes from a transcription of the speech that might not accurately represent Truth’s own speech patterns. Some interesting points and highlights from this puzzle: So do we think C.C.’s being self-referential in starting this puzzle with CCS at 1-Across? I wouldn’t put it past her. Burnikel’s Los Angeles Times crossword - Stella’s write-up He was the spoiled rich kid in the Nancy comic strip, too.Ĭ.C.

Did not know this, as I don’t think my local newspapers ran Katzenjammer Kids on the funny pages. Apparently fulling means “to shrink and thicken (woolen cloth) by moistening, heating, and pressing.” Did more than two readers of this blog already know that word and get it right away? That is a deep cut in English vocabulary. Most dictionaries don’t include this word, but American Heritage Dictionary tells us it’s someone working at a newspaper desk.

#Standing like wonder woman say crossword tv#

“Commanders”? Dudes… Have you never read nor seen on TV The Handmaid’s Tale? You could have chosen a much better name. I entirely forgot the Washington Football Team had finally chosen a new name, and that it was this. Can’t say I’ve seen this exact word before, but who doesn’t like pinball? Tough one, eh? A striking grid to approach when it was blank-all that long fill bumping up against the nine-row diagonal line of blocks.įave fill: JUMP FOR JOY, the entirely-new-to-me BIDENOMICS, slangy SITCH(uation), ACTIVE DUTY military, a VASECTOMY clued as a, CLUE IN, FALL ISSUE (, as in the pages are bound into magazine form and the issue may run in the July-August-September period), PUTS ON HOLD (we hate being put on hold), “ UP IS DOWN,” JUICE BAR, Andrea DEL SARTO (subject of a Robert Browning poem), OSCAR BID, and Cyndi Lauper’s ode to masturbation, “ SHE BOP.”