I prefer NUM as an interjection along the lines of yum and (the one I don’t like) nom. Not a fan of plural spelled-out letter entries. Characters typographically speaking, not dramatically. Apparently he’s the most famous HERLIHY available at this time? No idea who this guy is, and knowing pop culture is part of my job. (No abbreviation cue in the clue, oddly.) And here I was thinking the answer would be HEEL, or SPUR. Which I shouldn’t have, because it’s also the name of my BFF’s mom! Anyway, if you’re a fan of The L Word (the erstwhile Showtime drama featuring lesbian characters), keep your eyes out later this year for the sequel’s 8 episodes. I knew where the N belonged but forgot the rest.
I can’t help thinking that the women who work at or own dairy farms are really not keen on the terms dairymaid and milkmaid. I think the Eastern towhee is the one my family spotted once. I’d have done better with a fill-in-the-blank bird, though apparently the rufous-sided towhee has been subdivided into two different birds now. I sort of flailed here, taking a stab at RUBOSE and RUBOUS (which might not be words at all). Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region – Photo of the Week – Male eastern towhee at the Quabbin Reservoir (MA)Uploaded by Snowmanradio, CC BY 2.0, Linkĥ7a. Petersburg, Russia.īy Bill Thompson of U.S. There’s a Chicago street by that name, along with the cultural institution in St. ADORER, EVENER, and SQUARER were a bit jarring with the awkward -ERs, though. There wasn’t much spice in the non-theme fill. I tell ya, FIVE TIMES FAST is excessive! Please let me know if you can wrangle that with any of these tongue twisters. I hadn’t really seen the puzzle title before I started the puzzle, so it took me a while to grok the theme. The yellow themers are THREE FREE THROWS (I can’t say it 3 times), REAL RARE WHALE (can’t say 2x), SHOE SECTION (2x), UNIQUE NEW YORK (1x), IRISH WRISTWATCH (1.5x), and SHE SEES CHEESE (1.5x). The blue revealer is FIVE TIMES FAST, and really, my tongue twister requirements are just to say it three times fast. No idea how the puzzle really is on the difficulty spectrum.Īnyway! At least the app highlights the theme for me so I don’t have much to explain. Remind me not to ever solve a 21×21 puzzle on my phone! I was genuinely astonished that I didn’t have a bunch of typos at the end, because I had caught and fixed maybe 25 of them as I went along. I was out to dinner a couple hours after the puzzle came out, and figured I should get started on the puzzle on my phone. Lee Taylor’s New York Times crossword, “That’s a Mouthful”-Amy’s write-up I’m just noticing now (after making added letters red in the theme answers) that the sizes go up then down symmetrically! S M L XL XL L M S. I liked the bite and the unexpected revealer that helped me understand the theme. As in the band, not the actual police.ģ.8 Stars from me. Despite having watched this punt-fest only a week ago, I paused for quite a while trying to remember who played the Patriots. “Sandwich” being the historic town in Kent County, England. Perhaps you thought this clue was OBSCENE? Get your mind out of the gutter! It’s been a while since I’ve taken part in or seen a good ol’ fashioned mooning. If FIAT were clued as the car, I probably wouldn’t have had to run the alphabet in order for Mr.
Does anyone call them PEA JACKETS? Google seems to think that they’re more often referred to as PEA COATS, but alas COATS was claimed by another theme answer and PEA JACKETS is enough of a thing to pass.Fun, right? STANK TOPS feels grammatically off with the clue though I can’t pinpoint why, but I still find it to be one of the more colorful theme answers. Although I’ve never heard of BOBBY SOCKS, it was inferable and there’s something very enjoyable about the resulting BLOBBY SOCKS. My favorite entries were BLOBBY SOCKS and STANK TOPS. Aha moment!īobby socks! I don’t think they’d look that good on me… Once the revealer fell into place, it made a heck of a lot more sense, and it explained that two letters (XL) were added to a couple of base phrases. And although I had P?SSI?E CLOTHING, I just couldn’t see PLUS SIZE. It didn’t help that I had spelled BLUME incorrectly (Bloom). But as I traveled southward in the puzzle and tried to figure out the hidden message, I had SML?LM?.
I thought for certain this was an “add a letter” theme where the added letters would spell something clever once solved. WaPo crossword solution * 2 10 19 * “Fashion Accessories” * Birnholz