fokifestival.blogg.se - Heaps kudos on crossword clue

In my neighborhood, that restriction is reserved for the arteries within a half mile of Wrigley Field around game time. Like 58A, this sounds like it's about appliance repair, but it's not: ORS, or operating rooms, are. Never heard of, but LIAM is a guessable Irish name (and the lovely name of my cousin's baby boy). Ornithology! The is a CREST atop its head. has an even cooler first name than Grandpa Walton: ERSKINE. ZEB! I never knew Grandpa Walton had a name. EAT ONE'S HAT is a great phrase, balancing out ONE OVER PAR in the grid. It would be lovely if the RESERVISTS had no war to attend. As with the GNU clue, I like the new twist on an old 3-letter answer. Were you thinking of baseball? Bzzz! Gotta love having three consecutive clues that aren't about sports but might fool sports nuts.

Nice to see a fresh (if gruesome) GNU clue. But out on the savanna, a lion might bring down a GNU. are you thinking of sports, the Detroit Lions? Bzzz! The Lions are terrible at scoring. Speaking of potty words, PEE is clued as 44D: because P is the last letter of "top." Heh. Speaking of Scrabble, in a Lexulous game (that's the loose facsimile of Scrabble on Facebook) tonight, I bingoed by playing DOODIES, and twigged the S off CRAP so that CRAPS and DOODIES cross. Three Zs, three Qs, a pair of Ks, and an X? Me like.

The high-octane Scrabbliness of the fill.

Last, there's JAZZERCISE at 1A, clued as a, and the clue weirdly echoes 61D, TAE, or of Menlo Park, Thomas A. Yesterday's Hinmorwitz puzzle had three answers including UP, and so does this one: To REUP is to in the military, clues ANTES UP, and to away your nuts is to STORE UP. Then there was Bob Klahn's Saturday NYT monster, 12/27/07, in which clued OCHLOCRACY. There, in Byron Walden's tournament finals puzzle, it was clued as. What do I mean by the latter? It goes beyond ZOLAESQUE, which was the dramatic linchpin answer in the 2005 ACPT and the documentary Wordplay. Part of it feels super-fresh and part of it feels like a retread or homage with old answers. Tell your friends! (The smart ones.)Īlan Olschwang's New York Times crossword See the Fireball subscription page for details. For more money, Peter will work the answer of your choice into a puzzle. For just $10, you can get one puzzle a week, mostly hard themeless crosswords by Peter himself, for pretty much all of 2010.

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