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Well, less than two days ago, I made sure you knew that Boots was DORA THE EXPLORER's monkey sidekick. (Ouch.) I think David Kahn should have another book of his crosswords and call it Wrath of Kahn.Īlan Olschwang's themeless LA Times puzzle includes a central triple stack crossed by a fourth 15-letter entry. While solving Mel Rosen's CrosSynergy puzzle, "Films of Ire-Land," I made a mental note to mention here how it always cracks me up when people misspell khan as the surname Kahn.and then it turned out that the puzzle actually included WRATH OF KAHN instead of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. "Place for debauchery" = STY, as in the second definition here. Up above, "couple in a date" = SLASHES (as in "today is 4/29/06"). "Beauty spot" = SALON is obvious, and yet sneaky-like many of the clues in this puzzle.
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In the lower right corner, a total gimme ("Actor Wass" = TED-he first gained fame on Soap and later played the dad on Blossom) helped crack open that area. Two tricky 3-letter words in the center: "puffer's place" for SEA and "Media center?" for DEE.
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"Winning full house, for short" = ACES OVER cute to have that crossing BETTERS (which isn't "bettors," though). The museum was founded because so many tourists from Japan were making pilgrimages to Austin anyway the Filipinos and Hawaiians are also huge Spam fans, of course.) "Leaf sides" - RECTOS. (I've not been to the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota, but have a family friend who retired from the Spam-producing plant nearby. Moving downward on the left, "NHL'ers, e.g." = ICE SKATERS (not HOCKEY TEAM). "They bring tears to one's eyes" = DUCTS, of course. "Taking a grand tour, say" = IN EUROPE, which I recently decided ought to be called the "In Continent." Which brings us to the entry just below it, CASCARAS-the dried bark of the "buckthorn trees with medically useful bark" is used in laxatives. "Caterpillar engager" for ALICE is clever. I approached the puzzle this afternoon with some trepidation between the applet standings and a fearsome migraine, what hope did I have of a Googleless finish? A decent hope, as it turns out perhaps there's an advantage to be gained in already having the headache, rather than obtaining it in the course of doing this puzzle? Going from corner to corner, let's take a look at what's worthy of mention in this beasty (and there's a lot). Wonderful NYT puzzle by Robert Wolfe! Seeing the spread in applet solving times-an impressive 7:00 for Byron Walden, a handful of other folks at roughly double that time, and Tyler Hinman at nearly 10 minutes behind Byron. Plenty of good fill worked in amid the many theme/rebus entries-EL NORTE and EGOMANIA, to name a couple. I can't say I'd seen URANIC before, but "pertaining to element 92" seems straightforward enough.
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The '60s TV series LAREDO was, apparently, a "light-hearted action" show. Slightly surprising to find an obscurity in the top row (Italian film director ELIO Petri-wonder if he was a dish?), but with PILLSBURY BAKE and OXYMOR in that section, you take whatever works.
Extra bonus points to the constructor for the elegant consistency of across = OFF, down = ON (as Byron noted), even if up = ON for all my light switches.
This one's like a Thursday puzzle wrought large, and that's always a good thing. In the unchecked center square, ON/OFF reads across as is in the other spots, the across answer uses OFF (as in ENDER) and the down answer uses on (as in BEAC). Solving Elizabeth Gorski's Sunday NYT crossword was an on-again, off-again experience, with 14 squares containing ON/OFF.