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So much fun! I was surprised to come to the comments and find people complaining. It was an easy solve for me, but I found the constraint really added to the puzzle because it made the clues a bit more deliberate rather than "this is how that fill word is always clued". I loved the fact that the theme touched every single clue, it made the whole puzzle feel very hand-crafted and coherent. So often it seems like the "theme" entries get all the love and the rest are just there because they have to be. Personally I'll be looking out for more from this constructor!
Not being from the US I count it fair to look up brand names and other such things once I've made a guess as to what they might be; that's reasonable, right? Yeah, I know I only need to justify it to myself but hey, a little validation never hurts!
First time commenting, but this one was a roller coaster! The first 28 minutes involved a lot of sighing and I was very concerned I would be hitting the net for US state capitals. Then suddenly the trick clicked and the rest was a lot of fun. For me, half the enjoyment is deleting the wrong answers and putting in the correct ones so I love when the clues are vague enough to permit that. (my least favourite is "only one possible correct answer and it's a sports person I've never heard of) So yeah, all in all an enjoyable Sunday solve, thanks !
I really wanted "Important figure on staff?" to be RUNE... guess I've been playing too many fantasy games lately!
@Nancy J. I was really hoping the name was going to be Moe, but sadly none of the crosses fit...
Just when I had accepted that the answer to that clue was "UNESCO", they did the switcheroo on me...
Well this one was a bear, but at least TRUE LEAVES was a gimme for me, I was just teaching some wwoofers about them this very week. If not for that I'm not sure if I could have cracked that corner.
As a late GenX and techy this was entirely up my alley! Fun and breezy solve, although I dithered a bit about the direction the storming was happening.
@Your Fired presumably you could wear one sneaker - and also another sneaker?
@Petrol thanks for this! Having never heard of the shoes, the campus or the dish, I had a hesitant 'D' and then was totally blocked.
As someone who works with lye a lot, I found ABRASIVE for caustic to be a bit of a stretch, but I guess it's ok in a metaphorical sense... Overall a fun puzzle though, even if I did have to Google what a "salmineo" was, having got it purely on crosses!
@Bob you forgot the Greek alphabet!
Only hold up today was that I can never remember if she's Marion or Marian, and the hospital name meant nothing to me either way. The theme was great, I love when it helps with solving rather than being a clever "aha" get the fact!
I think this was a day where I was on the constructors wavelength in a bad way. I found it so easy it was like a box filling exercise and I didn't even see a lot of the clues because they were filled by crosses. Finished in less than half my average time. It's weird how something like the difficulty of a puzzle can be so subjective and yet overall the weekly progression averages out for pretty much everyone, as far as I've seen people reporting.
@Michael Whistler totally agree; I feel like it's pretty much divorced from the meaning of dry in anything other than a metaphorical sense.
No one else fell for "chandelier" for light décor then? Just me? Giving that up was by far the hardest part of this morning!
It's almost exactly a year now that I haven't been working for a global company. Thanks for reminding me what I'm not missing, but missing out on!
@Chris as someone on the wrong side of 45, REKT and TURNT were gimmes for me, and TLDR took just a moment to adjust my head. I might not be as young as I was but I've pwned a noob in my time...
Having no idea about the mountain I got stuck for a while with DENOLI/OHYES... I almost thought it was going to be a streak breaker until I started scouring the comments..
@Andrzej I used to have the same problem with waxing and waning as a kid, specifically around phases of the moon. The solution for me was to imagine someone adding lumps of wax to the sides of the moon to make it fatter, and that was sufficiently absurd to stick in my brain!
@Steve L did you actually mean don't? Because pot and papa certainly have different vowels for me. But I have no issue with chance/chants even though I didn't get it until I read the column.
@Andrzej, to me "blue book" is a fancy hotel guide so I was thinking it was going to be some kind of 'fete', 'gala', 'bash' type entry except it was far too long!
@Andrzej creepy pledges aside for a sec, thank you for this post! For some reason I put LOCI in there early on and didn't think to question it later...
@Helen Wright yes, it didn't seem in any way remarkable to me either, wonder if it's a "this side of the pond" thing?
@Xword Junkie Craves, as in needs. A word for "needs" that's missing its first letter. That gives "needs", with no introduction (or start).
@Lynn yep, "het up" for me. I feel like it's pretty interchangeable with "worked up" so without the "up" it's... a bit funny.
@Linda Jo yeah sadly too easy for me too, I finished it in a fast Monday time. Might even have beaten my best Monday time if I'd been aiming for speed instead of expecting Thursday-ness...
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