Chin

Tedious and unpleasant. Themeless AND full of vague clueing feels too much like an exercise in. “I’m smarter than you!” Merer? Even my autocorrect doesn’t want to acknowledge it was a word. A Shiloh reference that crosses OSHA and Phyliss Wheatley AND a Bill Pecos reference? You might as well tell everyone outside of the continental United States to go away.

Coming next Thursday: some answers are foreign words with vowels removed! Good luck!

Yes, I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 auto-gyro? And fill it up with petroleum distillate. And re-vulcanize my tires, post haste! Nerts.

You know how when you get your first chance to do a presentation to the office and you get excited and you use all the PowerPoint transition effects and all the colors and all the fonts and all that stuff? This feels like that. Rebuses and hyphens and spikes and hints in answers and music! It’ll be great, like my slide deck!

If we disallowed humblebrags about people’s solve times, what’s the over/under on the number of comments we’d lose? A third? Half?

“Returning from my trip to Upper Volta in my autogyro, I stopped for an Irene Papas talkie, which got me all het up. Now, off to the Savoy for this “popular music”.” This lulu is for Mr. Burns.

I wanna build one where the clue is Chinese proverb. In Chinese characters.

Welcome Back Cotter name, Itza, Elissa all in the same corner. Why not complete it with something like “Bort” and convince everyone that it’s not actually all that uncommon?