![]() ![]() And this looks like one I wish I'd tackled.ĭevious theme that actually meets the 'back down' conceit. 'Never on Sunday', as you know-too doggone expensive for a paper solver, and ordinarily it's just busy-work-but I always take a peek here. a biggish announcement: "American Red Crosswords" will be available for your iPhone/iPad very soon. Donate money to the Red Cross and get a mess of good puzzles. by Patrick Blindauer, intro by Will Shortz), you should do that. If you haven't yet downloaded " American Red Crosswords" (24 original puzzles from the country's top constructors, ed. Get to work, commemorative crossword constructors! I'm sure you'll have competition. PEZ turns 100 in 14 years (76D: Candy since 1927). I can't remember ever watching one, but I'm aware of its existence-good enough ( 67D: Postseason football game played in Mobile, Ala.). I don't know if SENIOR BOWL is original or not, but it feels so, and I liked it for that reason. REYES, however, was considerably easier ( 5D: Four-time baseball All-Star Jose). Actually I pulled BEHA- from my bag-couldn't remember if last letter was "R" or "N." The only expression I associate with Roberto DURAN is "No mas!" so 123A: Boxer nicknamed "Hands of Stone" took a good bit of effort. Managed to pull BEHAN out of my crossword bag o' tricks ( 32D: "The Hostage" playwright, 1958). Two seconds later I realized my considerable error (it's Louisa May ALCOTT). My favorite wrong answer of the day was at 6A: Best-selling author who served as a nurse in the Civil War. Got started quickly with FIFER at 1A: Drummer's accompanier (took me somewhat longer to get ( ARNAZ)). Don't know that word ( 77A: Talks without sincerity). Miniver in "Sanford & Son"), but mainly my slowness was due to tricky / vague cluing and failures of pattern recognition. Miniver"! I'm glad you put that in the clue because otherwise I might have confused her with the Mrs. There was some stuff I didn't know, like CLEM (38A: Mrs. But that's about the only vomitous thing in the grid. It's still terrible, but now it's irksome and hostile. I despise ARS - it's terrible fill, and a cutesy "?" clue is about the worst thing you can do to terrible fill. Fill manages to be fairly solid despite demanding theme. I think the cluing difficulty may have been slightly elevated as well. Couldn't think of right words to go in missing slots much of the time-what does one do to a white flag (I could think only of RAISE)? Likewise, couldn't come up with the GIVE part of (reversed) GIVE SOME GROUND for a while. Shouldn't have been, once I grasped the concept, but it was. Something about its structure made it tougher-than-usual.
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