Boaz has shown in this debut that he has the chops. The grid is clean. The two marquee spanners – DON’T ANSWER THAT and CITATION NEEDED – are terrific and fresh. Best of all, I believe, was the cluing, through which Boaz’s personality shined. Time and again today I resisted putting in an answer because either there were several possibilities, or because I was simply and totally flummoxed. But every time, eventually, when the answer filled in, it made perfect sense. That’s very good cluing. Boaz went the extra mile in the cluing, and here are two examples. • MOTTO has shown up in the major crossword outlets more than 100 times, but never clued by contrasting the language of state mottos. • He took a dry answer, APTLY, and made it dazzle with the Vin Diesel clue. So, he has the cluing knack. Upper tier, iMO. Boaz, I learned from your notes at XwordInfo that you’ve been making puzzle for less than a year and a half. Wow! I also learned that you’ve got another themeless in the queue. I’m greatly looking forward to that after today’s splendid outing. Thank you. This was a jewel!
"He took a dry answer, APTLY..." Lewis, After Nancy's rant (sorry, exposition) yesterday about "pop culture" clues for non-PPP answers, I await her counterpoint on the Vin Diesel clue for APTLY. ####
@Lewis Thank you for your kind words! Both of those clues were in fact mine, though kudos for the editing team for smoothing out the wording for the latter. I like to consult clue databases when clueing short fill so I can try to make sure the angle I came up with might be new to solvers. Thrilled to see it worked out!
Tried the front door. Went around to the side and finally crawled in the window. But I got here! Love a puzzle that stares at me, with just…white, empty squares. Then just one- NOLTE, and it all opened up! Woo-hoo!! I reached the summit! Or should I say, the…never mind. Lovely challenge. Solid clueing. Fantastic.
This was a fun Friday with some clever clues. I liked eyed food, informally for TATER. I was a little slow to get the top third until I came up with DONTANSWERTHAT, which unlocked everything for me. We’ve been having some substantial work done on our 100 year old house to bring it up to date (and code) including plumbing , wiring painting, refinishing floors and more. The hope is that we will be able to age in place, but the chaos is perhaps hastening the aging process. Taking time to do the puzzle after day is done and the dust has settled is a welcome respite.
@Marshall Walthew Sincere sympathy! But it will be wonderful in the end. Our son and his wife bought a 1920's house in Seattle; one of his first acts was to have the entire place rewired (long overdue)...over $20K. Yikes.. I think he's still repairing the holes and painting "in spare time."
That one was work. A satisfying solve, but I need to lie down now.
This is a great example of my favorite sort of Friday: lots of punny and ambiguous clueing that made for a challenging solve, but without any deliberately obscure entries that force the utilization of crosses (e.g. “apologue”), or any that still *look* hard even once the grid has been filled in (such as ZTILE). Not that I’m knocking either of the above two entries — I love a good Saturday. But this was exactly my kind of Friday :) Thank you, Boaz!
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Congratulations on a fine NYT debut, Mr. Moser! Nicely done.
I know every puzzle is different for every solver, but this was a perfect Friday for me. Challenging but completely solvable, each piece eventually falling into place with lots of clever but fair clues. I really enjoyed this one!
@Frank I couldn't have put it better than you did.
Mr. Moser made me work. Hard. I really enjoyed doing this puzzle! I do question the Wordplay explanation that "arias" forced "soli." We use a lot of words, including "arias," that have a foreign basis but are part of English now. That one didn't cause me any problem, I just don't agree with Deb's reasoning that Italian -> Italian.
@Edward Rice You're entirely right. SOLI has been clued 143 times, many of which had no Italian or Italian-derived words in them, according to xwordinfo.com. In addition that site states that SOLI is a legal Scrabble word, which makes it an English word, and links to this Google page which has a definition and links to other dictionary sources: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=define+SOLI" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?q=define+SOLI</a> And of course, ARIA is English as well, with 1237 entries, many of which have no Italian or Italian-derived words in the clue. And similarly, it's a legal English Scrabble word with links to other dictionaries. A better explanation is (in English as well as in opera) that an ARIA is almost always a SOLO, the plural of which may be SOLOS or SOLI. The word you need is deduced by looking at the letter count.
@Edward Rice Yes, I found that explanation in the article to hold little water when you consider that "arias" is squarely English - if it was Italian it would be pluralised as "arie". Not that I mind it in the puzzle itself since the letter count makes it fairly obvious.
Big props on an admirable debut, Boaz! Like Deb I almost expected a theme with the ALIEN / XENOMORPH combo and rather hoped for a WEAVER reference or something more. But what came through is a horde of classic movies, with a bit of a male vibe: THE ALAMO (1960, dir. John Wayne), SHANE (1953, classic gunslinger), 48 HRS (Nick at the APEX of his Noltidity), Night of the Living Dead with its HORDE of zombies, possibly including a semi-nude highschool English teacher that I almost had named Miss Apple, who really gave it her all for the few scant seconds she had on the screen, her head lurching at an unnatural ange, her eyes rolled up, tongue hanging out of the corner of her mouth, and did we just see her bosom?; the apt casting and many action poses (do we really need citations?) of Vin Diesel, and of course, ALIEN. Xenomorph, heck of a word. And using horde for something other than Mongols and Genghis Khan, yesh!
Correction: the theme I thought might be in the making is not the same as what Deb thought might be brewing, I didn't mean to imply that. I vote for an "edit" option and will support any candidate that promises to supply one for the comments page here! Emu = u + me!
@john ezra The original NoftheLD, shot in b&w, still gives me the creeps. No matter how gross & gory its successors, it’s still the best.
Excellent debut! I took a break after getting stuck in the top section, and while taking an early morning walk SIX FIGURES popped into my head. I couldn’t wait to get home and finish the puzzle. A very satisfying solve. I was surprised to learn that dumpster and zipper were both originally BRAND NAMES. Through research I learned a few others are linoleum, cellophane and kerosene. Great clue for PEANUT “Bit of foam, perhaps”. Congratulations on a fine debut, Boaz. I looked forward to your next offering.
@Anita Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed. I had a fun time trawling through the Wikipedia list of genericised brand name and trying to select two properly tricky ones.
@Anita Dumpsters and zippers are a rhyming generic pair of skips and zips over here; like elevator/lift a contradiction of the supposed US tendency to shorten words. We don't call those bits of foam packaging that get everywhere and resist the vacuum cleaner 'peanuts', we call them a chuffing [other words are avaiable] nuisance!
I enjoyed this puzzle - the clues were fun and there was not overly much trivia. I only had to check the comic's name and what a jackknife was. I did not understand PEANUT, but then it dawned on me - it's one of the things you use in packaging. It has never been popular over here, and these days recycled paper is used to stuff boxes, anyway, for environmental reasons. I've been thinking about dog noises, after yesterday's puzzle. Some empirical trials may have been involved, too. So, yeah, labs do woofs, yorkies do arfs, and beagles do bow wows. A classic Polish mixed breed almost definitely does the polish hau ([how] to you English speakers). I would publish the results, but sadly as a doctor of law I only have ins in legal journals :(
@Andrzej I was late reading yesterday's comments, but I did enjoy the discussion of dog sounds. Of course that led me down a rabbit hole about what sort of sound is made by that other canid, the fox. ;) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE</a>
@Andrzej thank you! I didn’t understand peanut until I saw your comment!
It took me a bit of time to get on our debut constructor's wavelength, but once there I was on my way (if not crossing the state of Pennsylvania). Once I new the CITATION was NEEDED rather than the more assertive PLEASE I got the reference. Thanks, Boaz Moser. It did take me a while to find the column and the comments. I hope that will have been worked out soon.
...*knew* the CITATION was NEEDED... Where is that edit function?
Hi all, Thanks for the bug reports about the link to the column. That has been fixed. TGIF!
My favorite kind of puzzle: obscure clues to ultimately accessible answers. A work out for me. Great debut # # # # # Do emus attend EMU?
Woo hoo, I'm one of the first commenters, it looks like! Probably helped by the broken link from the puzzle page. A challenge for me, up there with last Saturday's. Had to look up the college in Ypsilanti, a place I want to go someday. I wasn't sure what a blown save was, but as soon as I knew it had to do with MLB pitching I got ERAS - not sure how to count that, half lookup and half figured out myself. I had pAStor instead of VASSAL for a while, which made that's fair pALID (alternate spelling of pallid, maybe, I thought). Surprisingly, it was the long answer DON'T ANSWER THAT that set me straight. I usually don't even attempt long entries until I have a whole lot of letters filled in from shorter crosses. Happy weekend, everyone! I'm off to the bluegrass festival in Flagstaff this weekend and looking forward to some real fall weather instead of the endless summer here.
@Shan ERA stands for earned run average; it is the average number of earned runs a pitcher allows over nine innings (one full game). An earned run is one a team earns by getting hits and walks and by advancing with stolen bases, sacrifices, etc. An unearned run is one where the opposing team commits errors (plus a few other types of mistakes) that give the batting team a run without fully earning it themselves. A blown save is when a save, a late-game opportunity for a relief pitcher to come in and complete a close game for a win (specific limits apply as to how close it must be) is not successfully executed (i.e. the lead is not held). A save can be blown without giving up any earned runs. For example, if the tying run comes home on an error (or even because of an error earlier in the inning), it's a blown save, but the ERA of the pitcher is unchanged. If a pitcher blows a save, his ERA usually goes up. But not necessarily. The clue implies that this is automatic. But since crossword clues are just hints, I'm sure it's fine for these purposes.
@Shan I also had PALID and PASTOR, only I didn’t realize pallid was spelled incorrectly in my attempted solve.
@Steve L Unless, as you pointed out the runs are unearned, a blown save will result in an increase to either the starter’s or the reliever’s ERA, or perhaps both. The clue did not specify that the reliever’s ERA would be the one to rise. So the clue works in most cases.
Wonderful puzzle, devilishly clued. And the marquee clue/answer for my money -- quite literally speaking! -- is SIX FIGURES. Ah, yes -- especially if you live in NYC. Never mind that it took you decades and decades to reach a grand old age of (well-beyond) Medicare eligibility. The only internists accepting new patients now are "concierge doctors" and what are their "concierge fees"? You really don't want to know. This is definitely a "Nancy puzzle". Very few little bits of arcane trivia knowledge required and instead unusual and twisty clues to figure out. Some of my other favorites today: ABS (1A); BRAND NAME (2D); CITATION NEEDED (43A); EMU (33A); ACTION POSE (50A); ERAS (25D). One write-over: SHoRe up before SHARPEN for "improve as an argument". Before there was old SHEP -- or maybe around the same time -- there was old BLUE. "You're a good dog, you!" Remember him? But I waited to write it in...and then happily didn't. Great puzzle!
@Nancy As a country music enthusiast, I was surprised they had a country music clue I didn't know. But that's because the song was not a hit for either Elvis or Cash. It was Red Foley's song, but I don't think it charted for anybody. It was a song that was recorded by many artists as album cuts, but definitely not one of either Elvis's or Cash's hits. But of course the clue didn't claim it was.
@Nancy I too love the puzzle, but as the mother of two just retired physicians, I bristled, a little, at the overestimation of doctor salary I think the national mean is less than 400k. A family practitioner who is often the most important person in the medical chain makes among the lowest income , much less than that --that's why you can't get a family practitioner in Boston where I now live having been aNew Yorker all my life until the pandemic. While I concede that the puzzle's 1mill. could be an only in New York phenomenon, I would prefer if the puzzle called out people in the financial industry for their outrageous compensation even at a very young age.
Fantastic Friday puzzle, my favorite kind of cluing. Lots of white space after first pass with clever cluing that allowed for multiple answers, but as I filled in the puzzle I was able to correct my mistakes through the crosses I was more sure about and finally, voila, complete! Crunchy, chewy, sweet and salty, fun, fun, fun.
Lovely head scratcher for a Friday—the kind you have to try some fill, walk away from it, come back, make some headway, rinse, repeat. Some great aha moments and clue admiration. Thanks!
Excellent debut! I've been on a horror binge lately, so I may need to rewatch ALIEN. I'll never see the word ACME and not think of Looney Tunes.
@Katie I will never, never rewatch that movie. It was terrifying. Plus Yaphet Kotto--a heroic figure-- was a victim of the XENOMORPH. Awful.
@Katie "Alien: Romulus" recently hit the big screen, and NYTimes critic Elisabeth Vincentelli took the opportunity to watch/re-watch and rate all seven movies in the franchise. She didn't think "Aliens" has aged very well, and thinks that the 3rd and 4th installments looked better now than they had when they came out. All films scored 2-4 stars except "Alien", which got 5. Her opening sentence: "Few films are so perfect that you can’t imagine changing anything; Ridley Scott’s brilliant second feature, written by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, is one of them." So yeah, I think it's time for me as well to revisit it and a few of the others. Lastly, I remember an interview with Ridley Scott with a great line, but I cannot find it anywhere online, so I'll have to paraphrase it. He said "If you strip away the outer space setting and the special effects, it's really one of the oldest stories out there. It's called 'Ooh, there's a scary noise in the basement; let's all split up.' " ;)
So, WordPlay column and comments at last! I was quite tired of the Page Not Found notfication, so we went and got our CoVid vaccine injections since the morning was already kind of a bust. This puzzle was a combination of "What on Earth??" And Unexpected Instant Answer events. BESET off the T; SALMON RUN just from the clue. OFT because of the cleverness of the clue just below. I have particular affection forth name BOAZ because of the Bible story about Ruth, gleaning in his field... Not a bad way to vet a potential husband. Enjoyable challenge! And perfect for a Friday! I would remember this name, so I guessed a debut; this augurs well for future puzzles from Boaz Moser. Yay!
@Mean Old Lady He already has another in the pipeline!
Fun puzzle! Congrats on finally getting a submission accepted, for persevering after all those rejections. It was definitely worth the effort! 😎
Solving required sleeping on it. Really wanted [Sources of high quality wool] to be Merinos and that was hard to give up. Never saw ALIEN, but then went and saw ALIENs in a theater and am still not over it. Yes, I'm a wuss. A Friday-worthy outing. Thanks, Boaz.
@Vaer I wanted merinos too. Isn’t it fascinating how hard it often is to move away from first guesses.
@Marshall Walthew I also wanted merino but felt unsure about making it plural with an s at the end. Deep in my memory was shopping as a little boy, with my Mom who had no sort of dragged me along, in the 1960’s at a shop near Telegraph Ave in Berkeley called “The Ship of the Andes”. I think they had a stuffed alpaca in the window and a lot of Ecuadorian and Peruvian products. Strange how the crossword stimulates regions of one’s brain that have long been dormant.
Wonderful puzzle made difficult by clueing, not by the use of trivia and proper nouns. Kudos.
I puzzled over this puzzle and filled in the fills, each time hearing an imaginary click as they locked elegantly into place, and even though there were clear paths to follow, sometimes I went astray. Pastor? I knew it wouldn't just be pastor, but I couldn't think of the peon or serf word it should be and messed up the NW corner. The rest of the puzzle was a pleasure to work, and that NW corner did fill up when the pastor became a VASSAL (don't ask me how that worked). I felt a delicious little frisson of joy when it was done, and congratulated myself on a brilliant performance. Oh, and Boaz Moser? Please, please more, Mr. Moser! The doctor clue alone was worth every second of the solve.
dutchiris, I’d been thinking about that doctor clue, wondering why it seemed so baffling until I six-figured it out. I often wonder if constructors set us up with other nearby and/or crossing clues. Reading your post has made me focus on that “lord’s work” clue. No evidence, may only be coincidence, but I know I let my eyes and mind flip back and forth from cross to cross, and that phrase “doing the lord’s work” may have just framed what a doctor’s “made” into the wrong bucket of brain cells, for me at least. Because making things isn’t usually what we think of doctors doing (more curing or mending), making money should have been more top of mind, but the lord wouldn’t let me think about filthy lucre (not that doctors don’t fully deserve what they earn, but you hopefully get my drift). How conniving are these crossword constructors, anyway?
@dutchiris Re VASSAL/pastor House of a lord, not house of the Lord. I knew the reference was to a lord of the manor, but could only think of serf as possible fill, which was entirely too short.
Took me way too long to figure out "DOI" is "DO I?", and not a weird way to spell "doy", as in "No doy!" (which can also be an enthusiastic way of expressing assent)
@Mojo haha, I didn’t get that until reading your post. I rescind my earlier quibble about that answer, because I did think it was an alternate spelling of “doy” (as in “no doy”). Guess I was DOOKed again. 😂 .:.:.:.:.:. .:.:.:.:. .:.:.:.
I gave up. I can attest that not all doctors make six figures.
oNeminute then INAminute then INAmomeNt and finally INASECOND. And so went this puzzle… Great fun, author. More please!
@G.T. Thank you for your kind words! As of now I have another themeless in the queue, this time a collab clueing with a friend. Hopefully you enjoy it just as much!
Our debut constructor has much to be proud of in this gem. So does Ypsilanti. Had to chuckle at the docs' SIXFIGURES. Our local primary system is undergoing a merger and further corporatization and, shall we say, it's not going well. The clinical staff earn every penny. Many thanks for this very fine Friday.
If the answer to 34d expects SOLI shouldn't the clue say 'arie', the italian plural of 'aria', rather than arias? In italian 'solo' is an adjective so it should agree with the noun, 'arie sole'. A musical solo in italian is "un' assolo". Un' assolo di chitarra – a guitar solo – for example. So 34d is a bit of a spaghetti-and-meatballs clue, tasty but not authentically italian!
@Rosalind Mitchell Who you calling un’assolo? Seriously, this was a thread much earlier. It’s definitely not a foreign language indicator. !!!
@Rosalind Mitchell Of course you are correct--a case of "knowing too much" to have an easy time with the bit of fill. I didn't turn a hair, tsk!
*forehead slap* PARASAILS was my break in for this puzzle and I worked my way into the northeast and solved clockwise from there. I had VASSAL and ALAMO and then SignatURES for the doctor clue and was stuck there. Having so many crosses work in signatures steered me away from seeing where I had gone wrong so I went to Deb’s Wordplay for help, which I was not sad about! Remember when she did them daily?! I was still learning then and Deb made it extra fun :).
Just yesterday, I was discussing terms of venery with my friend Vera, and how I believed that most of them--a lamentation of swans, say, or a ripley of xenomophs--were artificial, invented by English [lords] with nothing better to do. TIL that a collection of zombies is a HORDE. Talley-ho! English vs. Italian plurals aside, I'm trying to think of an aria that *isn't* a solo. I'm of course referring to pieces labelled as such, and not by style or form, like "Aria da capo," or instrumental movements titled "aria," like the one from Bach's Orchestral Suite #3 (Soli Deo gloria!). You get more than one singer on stage at the same time, and it's a "duetto" or "terzetto." Wikipedia appears to agree with me, but Letterman does not: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD2cnOLcl7I" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD2cnOLcl7I</a> (That clip surely kept everyone from getting to sleep afterwards!) Go, Ypsi Eagles!
@Bill I should add that the Men (and Women) from Ypsi have only been the Eagles since 1991. Prior to that, they were the Hurons, and before that, the Normalites. Their mascot is officially named Swoop. Soli Ypso gloria.
On a hunch entered Koran instead of TORAH. Not bad as hunches go, but eventually got there after picking up the TAB. And in line with that theme -- there's that word again -- even learned the meaning of soli Deo Gloria. Divine grid, Mr Moser.
Finally CHASED down Wordplay. Just about 30 comments en masse so far, so I guess the link is generally broken. This one was a lot of fun! Clueing was the star. Each one seemed to just require a slightly different key, then the lock turned quickly! Not a long time, but a good time.
This was a real high flying Friday! Very fast, but I felt like I was working (in a good way!) the whole time. Really fun to pick up XENOMORPH early, and the idiomatic phrases were all at hand. Great job!
This one was almost impossible- at least for me.
@Barry Ancona it seems like very often when someone posts "this was hard!" someone comes back with a variant of "quitcher gripin'!" They're just giving their opinion, jeez.
How many of you remember hearing "Old Shep". I was just a girl and cried every time I heard it. Loved the puzzle.
@Judy My mother-in-law had no fewer than 7 Sheps growing up in the 40’s and 50’s!
Anyone want a PEANUT? Sorry, I'll stop that rhyming now, I mean it! Anyhow, I didn't understand why a bit of foam was PEANUT until I read the comments but it didn't bother me while I was doing the puzzle because I thought, oh, maybe it's referring to those orange circus peanuts... they're kind of foamy. I mean what do I know, I haven't had one since they made me violently ill in the second grade... while on the bus coming home from school. I'll tell you what, that's a character builder! It made me feel SEEN, that's for sure, but not in a good way! Nice puzzle! My favorite was eyed food, informally, for TATER! And also PORTO But that is because I actually knew it right off the bat thanks to my geography game!
@HeathieJ I haven't thought about circus peanuts for decades. I can't believe they were ever a thing.
@HeathieJ We have bags and bags of packing peanuts left over from our move. Mostly the cornstarch kind, which I guess is some sort of foam. I hope someone will come tomorrow to pick them up. We’re tired of moving them around in the garage.
Forgive me if someone has already said this, but boy, is it fun to say Boaz Moser—and to do today’s puzzle! My experience included a fairly unproductive morning pass, a long day of physical labor, and an absolute frolic upon return. Spectacular debut! Look forward to more from you, Boaz Moser!
@Kate Really is a fabulous name. Sounds made up but in a really good way, as in "too good to be true".
Did not enjoy this one. Something has changed in the clueing, they’re too “clever”… but that doesn’t make it a challenge…
Nice themeless debut, Boaz. Things moved along quickly once I changed SHoRe up to SHARPEN and kORAn to TORAH. After completion, when I had ALPACAS at 48A, I thought it was odd because I read the clue as "wood" instead of "wool". Sometimes my clue reading is a little LAX.
Fair puzzle, but not much fun. I just couldn't get on the constructor's wavelength today. Afraid I CRAPped "out"!
The link from the main puzzle page isn't working again. Someone please wake up the head emu.... (Second attempt...get that emu outta here!) !!!! !!!! !!!! Filler, filler, more filler.
This was briefly scary as I had an awful lot of white in the upper half. Happily I was able to make headway before proceeding further down, and picking up speed dramatically. Strange little puzzle. Some of the clues were really clever - account of a night out, Ypsilanti not-bird, lord's work, eyed food. But others were really pretty bad - doctors, blowout, "soli", and very especially "action pose". Really?? Almost seems as if written by two different people, which apparently isn't the case. Ah well, not one of my favorites, but not bad.
@B Took me nearly twice my Friday average. Not until I did a mass erasure did things start to move. As mentioned by others here DONTANSWERTHAT opened the floodgates. Some thoughts on our last exchange over the Blackbird: I think a good example of an "innuendo" is from Eliot "And the deep lane insists on the direction Into the village, in the electric heat Hypnotised. In a warm haze the sultry light . . ." One can almost hear the buzzing of insects enhancing the mood. Any interpretation that causes a reader to find meaning beyond the words on the page that fits his conception of the piece is valid. But for a critic to publish an analysis more is required in terms of the author's body of work and the spirit of the times in which it was written.
@B I’m not sure what your beef with ACTIONPOSE is. To me it seemed perfectly cromulent. In fact, I thought all of the answers you answers you mentioned as being bad were completely fine, dare I say “good”. Apart from initially filling in the wrong answer for a number of clues (because multiple valid answers existed - a good thing, requiring the crosses to disambiguate), the only issues I had were a minor quibble with DOI, and the crossing of SHEP/SHANE being a Natick for me. Though S seemed like the only reasonable letter to place there to complete the puzzle. I typically prefer a themed puzzle, but I found this to be a very enjoyable themeless. High marks. My only real complaint is not enough punny, play-on-words (question-marked) clues. 🤓
I find it rather sad that a chaplain can have TAB for 9A while my initial answer was LIE. I really do need to get out more. Perhaps the emus and I can paint the town red.
I don't usually laugh at crossword answers, but SIX FIGURES was hilarious!
Apparently, the answer to 12A does not pass the scrutiny of Eastern Michigan University. Oh well, maybe my comment will show up later.
@Grant You led me to look up another possible answer: CRAPTASTIC Never been in a puzzle and not even in the Xword Info word lists. Thought was a fairly common phrase, but.. maybe not. ..
Very enjoyable, smooth solve. I loved the [Summit] pairs, as for 1D I thought APEX, then thought it would probably be ACME to avoid the starting X, then APEX dropped and I chuckled as I filled in the excellent XENOMORPH. Thanks Boaz! Excellent Friday!
Late to the party. Tough one to me and I might have cheated a bit more than I should allow but was still surprised to end up successfully. More than a couple of completely unfamiliar terms or phrases. Oh well... my streak will probably come to a halt tomorrow. ..
@Rich in Atlanta It's your party and you can cheat if you want to.... Cheat if you want to!
@Rich in Atlanta It's your party and you can cheat if you want to.... Cheat if you want to! ☺️ I thought since I haven't posted today, the emus would let a short one through... It took two days till let through a couple longer ones from a few days ago. I guess now it's my party and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to!
oh and the 9A answer seems a little tame for a [wild night out]. I was hoping for APB as the cops are out chasing down the partygoers.
@RozzieGrandma can I come party with you?