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I had ENhORSE for a bit. You know, when you enhorse yourself after falling off and you're [Back in the race?]
Oh. That kind of TOAST. I very confidently managed to get that one by imagining a toaster [Ding, ding, ding]ing before delivering the goods...
@Gerry Wachovsky from Wikipedia: 'A hunting blind (US), hide or machan is a concealment device or shelter for hunters or gamekeepers, designed to reduce the chance of detection by animals. There are different types of blinds for different situations, such as deer blinds and duck blinds. ' had to piece that one from crossings myself. I originally had 'mute'. Couldn't say why.
@Paul Stoddard Out Of Office. How much you hear this varies wildly according to where you work
Loved this; my preferred rebus is one where each rebus square has different text, but the 1s and 2s put this up there for me anyway! Lost unimaginable amounts of time to misreading 'Argo' as 'Fargo' in the clue for 32A for quite literally no reason at all.
@Francis I'm no linguist but tree representations of the romance languages (i just googled 'romance languages tree'... told you i'm not a professional) seem to show that Spanish, French and Portuguese (all form plurals with an -s) diverged from each other later than they diverged from Italian and Romanian (which don't, and have their own systems that are similar to each other). So that's probably why.
@Steve Agreed on EARfLAP but the clue for AXE makes sense. An axe fells trees, making it a feller. The question mark indicates it's a pun.
Does anyone know why I solved the crossword, got a time, and then went back on the tab only to see my time is now apparently 11 hours?
Can anyone help me out with 'head' meaning toilet? I'm British enough to have guessed LOO anyway, but I've never heard that in my life. Is it an Americanism, or am I maybe the wrong generation? Or have I just been living under a rock??
I just listened to Rafael's episode on Daniel Ginsburg's "Crosstalk" podcast, which I would really recommend. It's great to have this insight into what constructors love and hate and how they see their process.
@Ioana And yes I do mean Grinberg, but my keyboard disagreed.
@Leon in fact, the reason it's so prevalent in AI-generated text is precisely because it's so commonly used in all the text that the AI is trained on! I love em dashes (although, maybe I've been using en dashes, I really wouldn't know)
@Chris thanks for the reminder. Any day I think of “these are my horse” is a good day.
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