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I also liked that each answer has a different altered vowel sound. What did all y’all think about this? Did it work for you? I thought it was a nice gimmick, and it took a bit of puzzling before the “a-ha” fell. 58A “What you need to get the starred clues to fit their answers” SOUTHERNDRAWL.48A “*Poe” (Poor) FLATBROKE (Which made me think of this song, The Kindness of Strangers, sung by an Australian, but pronouncing poor as poe…).The clue for 20A, DANTESINFERNO, “*Hail” is actually “Hell”, but is spelt in such a way as to mimic a Southerner pronouncing it, thus “Hail.”

I don’t know anything about Marti DuGuay-Carpenter’s background… Is she a Southern belle? The theme is a clue/answer reversal theme with a tricksy twist, which will soon become clear: Marti Du Guay Carpenter’s Los Angeles Times crossword – Gareth’s Review From his Wikipedia page, he appears to be a recent popular author. Weird! BANANASLUG was only vaguely familiar to me it must be one of the coolest names for a sports team though! The one answer I had no clue about was DAVEEGGERS. There was a photograph in a wildlife book that made one look a lot bigger and scarier, and somehow because the balrog was scary, they got linked. Because of this, I have a rather strange mental association of balrogs and ratels. I wouldn’t get Gandalf a gag gift if I were you! My older brother read Tolkien to me when I was quite young. It was originally written by South African Solomon Linda, as Mbube, meaning “Lion” in Zulu, in 1939 he didn’t copyright it at the time.Įlsewhere, I like the symmetrical pairings of G answers GAGGIFT and GANDALF. Crossing it is TOKENS, clued as the singers of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”. The last entry has perfect bottom-of-the-grid letters (E’s, N’s, Y’s) without being boring and staid like say RESTLESSLY. The bottom-left stack is no less impressive MASTERKEY (with a smart clue, “Super item?” referring to an apartment super), ALPHABET, CIAAGENT (possibly a bit adjective/nouny, but it looks cool), and HENNESSY. It makes me think of my nextdoor neighbour growing up, who called it “canine pepper!” PRICELESS is perhaps not as cool, but completely legit, and provides common letters that allow the downs to all be good solid answers, ECOL excepted.

HAS A HELPING OF HUMBLE PIE CROSSWORD CLUE PLUS

Have a look at the stacks in the top-right and bottom-left, 3X8 and 1X9 might not sound the most impressive, but there’s not a 3-letter answer to be found there, which makes it quite a chunk of white-space! The top stack has the aforementioned SPACEJAM, plus COCACOLA and OKAYOKAY. The top-right filled itself in in short order, from there it was the tiny constricted middle, bottom-left, top-left, bottom-right, where, as you can see, I finished at RAMEN. I started with 7A, SPACEJAM, a gimme because of the year, I actually watched that on the big screen. This puppy is chock-full of answers that plain delighted me. That said, I don’t think difficulty should come into things when it comes to judging the merits of a crossword puzzle. 5:55 is among my fastest Friday times ever. This 34 block / 70 entry themeless played more like a slightly tough Wednesday than a Friday for me. Today’s crossword is by Joel Fagliano, who made quite a splash at the recent Orcas. (Actually, I volunteered.) I’m recently unemployed after 7 years of being a varsity student, so it’s not like I don’t have time at the moment!

Gareth here today Amy’s with the rest of the word nerd herd at the ACPT, so who’s left to hold the fort? Muggins.

Has a helping of humble pie crossword clue