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The last surviving member of the Ramones, Tommy Ramone, died last week. Minor flourish with repeated clue for a pair of three-letter vertical answers, ELM and OAK.Īlas, the ledger doesn’t balance, is weighted by the distractive frass, and this was a disappointing solve overall.īrendan Quigley’s blog crossword, “Themeless Monday”īEQ crossword solution, 7 21 14 “Themeless Monday” KOOL-AID is kind of nifty centered in Column 8.

On the positive side of the ledger, I appreciated the triple-seven stacks vertically in the northeast and southwest, though the collection of letters isn’t exceptional: ICEBERG/ SCIENCE/ SLANDER and NEVADAN/ AVARICE/ DOGGONE. Also, a sizable smattering of place and product names, which I’ll spare you and me the litany of recitation.Ībbrevs.: ECCL, BPOE, UAL, ARG, ETO, PAC, CIA, RBIS, HMOS, MLS, NNE, DAS. But perhaps I’m being 55a SNARKY (which I’ve never used in the sense of the clue, but which m-w gives as the first sense I prefer the second sense, of sarcastic and impertinent). Names: People: 21a ARP, 23a BEN, 29a HUGO, 40a NADAL, 60a DIOR, 68a GEENA, 2d ECO, 6d BABE, 8d CONAN, 9d ANDRÉS, 47d ELY 56d ALBEE honestly, I’m surprised that 49d wasn’t clued as for DOTCOM. Hindi & Urdu kamarband, from Persian, from kamar waist + band band First Known Use: 1616 (m-w.com).ĭespite the well-evident theme, my biggest impression both during and after the solve was that this crossword was a compendium of names and abbreviations. A brief investigation turns up no appropriate alternatives. Despite this, it’s the only non-noun in the quintet. More often seen in adjectival form, as spellbound. Contra the other four themers, this entry isn’t a single word, but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt as a hyphenated noun. In this iteration, it’s words ending in B*ND. The venerable if not hallowed vowel progression theme makes another Monday appearance. Lila Cherry’s Los Angeles Times crossword - pannonica’s write-up It’s actually more polished than plenty of other puzzles that get published, so Mr. This puzzle might mark the constructor’s debut. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.” And when your disease is kicking your ass and you can’t fight, you rest and let other people fight for you. This Slate article includes the video of ESPN sportscaster Scott’s speech and also unpacks the valuable ways that Scott dismantles the usual rhetoric about “battling cancer.” “When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer. He received the Jimmy V Perseverance Award for the way he is living with cancer. If you missed it, I hope you’ll watch Stuart Scott’s speech online. I also liked seeing ESPYS just a few days after this year’s Espys telecast. Likes: CREOLE, CLAMBAKE, CREW CUT, BAR-HOP, BLEARY, DURAN Duran (I wonder if the constructor originally had this clued as boxer Roberto Duran, cross-referenced to the “No MAS!” answer), FIVE A.M., PICASSO, and D.C. The sewing crowd likely knows this one well, but I find myself wandering amid TOILE, TULLE, MOIRE, and that other 5-letter fabric I am forgetting. Maybe you live near a bunch of narrow inlets and people bandy about RIAS all the time. Perhaps all the physics and engineering people know the word, but I know it from crosswords. The tough-for-Monday words are as follows: Picked that one up from a South African friend. HIDDEN, SECRET, and CLASSIFIED all connote privacy. “Back” is loosely used, no? Chicago’s papers end with the sports sections, not classifieds. The theme, though, was a basic four-piece theme that didn’t overcrowd the grid:

Author umberto crossword clue plus#

There were just two words in those corners, plus a handful of others, that felt supra-Monday in their difficulty.

0721Ī little surprised to see those fat stacks of 6s in the northwest and southeast corners in a Monday puzzle. NY Times crossword solution, 7 21 14, no. I like the way the crazy-spelled title signals the crazy-spelled name, so I didn’t mind the “wait, ‘Easy’ is in the title” overlap. I thought they were Price Pfister but apparently they dropped the Price in 2010. Been a while since I watched any Tubbies. The Noo-Noo is good at cleaning up stuff like large-volume pink yogurt, I believe. Presumably Peter tapped a database to find suitable phrases with the right word counts. Nice meta, straightforward once you cotton to what you need to do. They would have been 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, etc., spelling out the first however-many digits of pi, hooking up with the “Easy” in the title.

Turns out I was making it more difficult than it needed to be, and I just needed to write down the lengths of all the words in the theme answers. Then this one came along and I drew a blank on proceeding. Well, I’d complained before that the occasional Fireball contest puzzles were usually too easy, with metas only as hard as a Matt Gaffney’s Weekly Crossword Contest week 1 puzzle. Fireball crossword solution, 7 17-20 14, “Easy” Does It