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So glad YINZER didn't make it. Yes, we know you're a US publication. But there's a limit to what your international readership should have to tolerate 😉
A few rewarding clues/answers (I liked 11D), but overall too much like a grinding research project for much enjoyment. Only completed it for the run, coming up to the year.
70 minutes of tooth grinding and lookups. If it weren't for my streak I'd have abandoned it. A few good clues/solutions but far far too many obscurities
Alpha has never been in the NATO alphabet, as "ph" pronounced as "f" isn't a thing in most languages. It's always been Alfa. Similarly Juliett - two Ts, is used as otherwise some users will elide the final T. NATO isn't the only phonetic alphabets around. Others use different words, and may have included Alpha
V unhappy with 28D which clearly should have been WADI, and that it wasn't and was so poorly clued made the center impossible without resorting to help. Agree with others' comments about 38A
@Steve L Yes, there's a move to adopt the US term here, although I have trouble saying 'anesthesiologist' without putting on an atrocious attempt at an American accent. Presumably we'd spell it 'anaesthesiologist'. But in communicating with a broad range of English (and other speakers) it becomes necessary to clarify when there are terms with different regionsl meanings. So, yes, I'm a medical specialist who's provided anaesthesia for far too many 3:00 a.m. caesareans.
@Matt Not really, as I learned to my chagrin having (as an anaesthetist - what you'd call an anaesthesiologist) written "Caesarian" under "operation" for many year, only to discover it's actually Caesarean and that I'd been writing it incorrectly all that time 🙄 Cesarean is the North American variant, and it's also valid to not capitalise it. Not super impressed with 1A/9D :(
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