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Would M_NTERO / M_NET be sort of a limited Natick? Like a Dedham maybe?
@CaptainQuahog - the one in which I read the clue too quickly and mistook English for French!
Tough one for me. I had fEderALBANK gumming up the puzzle and “You don’t have the votes” running gumming up my brain for much of it!
@Francis I also think that the pop/culture references are more top-of-mind for current puzzles. When I dive into the archive I find it harder to come up with what was clearly a popular term in (say) 2018
Spent a while trying to find words that end in J as Randall’s eldest daughter is DEJA unless you think Foster children don’t count (and if you do think that - maybe take some time…)
@Jane Wheelaghan I knew it from growing up near Boston when only the fanciest folks called the Mass Pike the “Massachusetts Turnpike”. Pretty sure even the road signs call it the Mass Pike
@Helen Wright Not to be too pedantic , but there are few prominent women in science that I wanted to flag that Dr. Tureci is one - so not a “chap” (am now prepared to be corrected that “chap” is non-gendered …)
@Jane Wheelaghan - zip, like zilch, zero, and nil, is a synonym for none. Takis are a delightful brand of corn chip - like Doritos - but rolled so they’re shaped like a tube.
GOA and OAST was a pretty tough Natick. I realize the latter is a crossword word but I hadn’t seen it in a while
@Lars as does ALBaniA.
Wow - that was tough. The only thing that seemed unfair was that I think the clue for 1a should have had a question mark.
SW killed me - I had Lye as an acid (it’s a base) which gave me SLIDEy slippers and PROPHISise. LEsS looked wrong but seemed plausible.
Had to google the set list of an Elvis movie but once I got that J (to go with EMOJI) it fell into place. Felt like a Thursday (and so did my time!)
@BR The kids (metaphorical kids) use “Mood” as a one word sentence akin to “Indeed.”
@Jennifer I could not figure out what the question mark at the end of the clue was about. Ohio is reliably Republican in presidential years so could be clued without it. Your comment helped me understand what the cluer was thinking!
TIL that a TEAL is a type of duck. I guess it’s one that dabbles?
Fun puzzle but how is an OBOE a cousin to a French Horn? The former is a reed instrument and the latter a brass? Maybe I just needed the relationship to be more distant [third cousin twice removed from a French Horn]?
@Bill in Yokohama Don’t chicken out - actually, the one time I had it it was kinda dry (getting a ‘Ken to a safe temp seems to require over cooking the Tur and the Duck)
@Xword Junkie As a prof, you have probably written good words to a student as a RECommendation to graduate school!
@Andrzej I had SaGe for 25D and aRDA seemed like a pretty good goddess name (Tolkien - who was influenced by Wagner used it as the name of one of his) and eMO sort of seemed to fit too (my Latin is rusty but I bought that the prefix for emotional might have been the opposite of odious!)
ROTTEN/n crossed with MOON/dSTONE felt like a Natick to me except I knew both words. Is there a sword term for that?
@John ABE was my last fill. I thought the 1960s maybe the kids called being eco-conscious “jCYCLEing” for…reasons
@LBG I had theewoks for the longest time because I didn’t realize WOOKIEE had that last e!
I’m still not sure I understand 45 down. Does it have to do with CLIPpers being used to cut hairs?
@max This seemed like a Natick to me with C_U and _ANOI. The tower didn’t have to be named after a place!
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