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Amazing feat of construction. I also liked that 127A OMNI as in "omnidirectional" truly describes the revealer. Fun puzzle.
Did anyone else think that pig-latin in a clue meant that the entry must be in pig-latin also? I was stuck for awhile trying out YETNAY? ETNYAY? for NYET but neither fit.
Struggling through this puzzle with watery eyes and running nose and I still needed several crosses before I realized "cold pack" resolved to "kleenex". :-) After filling in ONEG for 39A it did occur to me that it could have also been clued as "Earth's pull." I've only heard of ONE G in reference to gravity, never before as "one gangster".
@Bill I had PETAL until I couldn't make the crosses work, then changed it to SEPAL. Now a truly great Schroedinger puzzle trick would have been if both answers fit! And even more impressive, if TEPAL would also fit. But maybe that would just be gilding the lily.
Was drawn in by the grid - lovely spare curves that set a mood for a relaxed Friday night. One look up because I'm not a big sports follower. "Tahoe runner" = MAC completely buffaloed me. Thank you to the commenters for explaining it.
@Lee I do crack almonds with my favorite nutcracker: a pair of channellock pliers. But I wouldn't touch unshelled cashews (if I could find them) with any nutcracker of mine. Their double shell contains an acidified version of urushiol, the active ingredient that causes poison ivy rash. Best to leave the cracking to those who know what they are doing.
@Aaron Yeah I got that. Interesting that it can be read two very different ways.
@Cherry But Spanish can also misdirect. I had SAL instead of French SEL in 22A until I got enough letters in SPICERUBS to figure out that A didn't belong.
I had EPIDEMICS for awhile at 50A. Of course none of the crosses remotely worked but I was so sure something else was wrong. Finally I erased it and OUTBREAKS emerged from the crosses, to my surprise.
I was stuck for a long time on 49A with YHAND, which is accurate and crosses nicely with two of the downs but not the other three.
@Jane Wheelaghan I very frequently do not know names of popular culture or sports figures, but I do know they are names. I filled in MIKE after getting M and K on crosses and knowing it to be a name. But when 10D wasn't working, I guessed someone named Brzezinski might be a MIKA instead. Same with NEAL and NEWELL - I know neither of these people, but happened to know someone named Neal Newell in my younger days, so I put these in as a (lucky) guess.
@John if you want to be excruciatingly accurate, the planets in the solar system and the Sun revolve around the center of mass of the system, called the barycenter - but where's the fun in that? Unless you want to clue barycenter, which would be a wicked crossword entry.
@Down_Home I'm more likely say that in response to ess-SHOO than ess-CHEW :-)
Eenie Meenie... can be used as a counting-out rhyme, or as a selection process (but certainly not very random, and certainly offensive in our day). I used it for both as a child. Now I know better. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting-out_game" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting-out_game</a>
@Alana physicist was absent, left a note: "Gone fission"
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