Alex Levine
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This is a delicious puzzle. Didn't "sprit" appear as an answer sometime in the past week?
Sweet and entertaining puzzle.
@Clare The kind and modest nature you express in your second paragraph is why the snarling and snarky East Coast was not for you. I had to chill out on the West Coast before I could move back east.
@Tyler These verbal constructions are also called pleonasms. For several years I have wanted to construct a puzzle with them as a theme. "The La Brea Tar Pits" was in my quiver. I have barely dipped my toe into the many constructing software and/or apps that are out there and know access and use them Anyone reading this who is an experienced constructor and would like to accompany me on my path to the dark side is invited to contact me at <a href="mailto:levinealexh@gmail.com">levinealexh@gmail.com</a>
I enjoyed this puzzle because the fill, leaving aside the themed entries, was a pleasant trip in the way-back machine, in that much of it was very straightforward, as opposed to overuse of strained misdirection, obscure puns, characters from Star Wars and its progeny, and hit musicians from the last twenty years only. Solving SE by crosses enabled me to get the theme entries p
Oops! Or should I say "quelle honte?" The clue and fill for 5D don't match. St. Denis is not a "neighborhood in Paris," as the clue would have it. St. Denis is a city (commune) unto itself, the innermost northern suburb of Paris. It is neither a neighborhood nor in Paris.
@Ron Alta is getting famous for this, it's been answer for quite a lot of clues recently
@alex May I finish? Solving SE with down crosses enabled me to get the themed entries before I filled in the revealer, which even when I filled it in was mysterious to me because I didn't get the hominem/homonym thing.
@Xword Junkie. I agree that this clue is funky. "Like a penetrating mind" would have been clearer.
67A clue is "Biology Class?" The answer is "Genus," identified by the columnist as a taxoonomic category in biology. So it is. But so is "Class." I'm scratching my head about this clue. I think that it's a lazy or poor clue, unless this an intentional misdirection or perhaps a clever piece of meta crossword construction. Any thoughts from the community?
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