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C% enjoyable.
Nobody expects the Spanish imposition!
@Fact Boy It's still the Gulf of Mexico.
Abysm prevented me from solving but it's in the dictionary so I guess I can live with that. However, non-words like mwahaha, woah, erm, eww and ums, while gettable, were downright annoying, verging on amateurish and "wait, what" wasn't much better. Limn was the best part of an otherwise sketchy puzzle.
Beware of grids bearing Greek.
This puzzle had some good elements.
There was a lot to like here. Let's have more like this.
i don't know how to break it to you folks but Lola was a man. I'd bet my cherry cola on that.
Nice puzzle with fresh fill. totally devoid of stale crosswordese. Kudos to the constructors.
That was fun. Good trivia, Orinoco especially, and clues and answers you don't see every day -- mensch, el clasico, Sisyphean and a fortiori, which was new to me. The puzzle was almost devoid of boring old crosswordese except for SRO. Let's have more like this.
She-eep was baaaaad.
The author of this fine puzzle was inspired by her father's puns. It's clearly time to give dad jokes the dignity they deserve. They are not to be laughed at.
Fun puzzle. I'd never heard of a sine bar but now I know it's the sine qua non for measuring or setting angles. But I guess I've just gone off on a tangent.
Best Tuesday puzzle I've seen in a long time. Good fun.
Nice puzzle with a lot of pleasantly tricky stuff. And I'll bang a gong for that great T. Rex clue that the editors scrapped.
I had never heard of midinettes, Brazilian soccer player Marta or the novels The Naked Sun and Tara Road but I was able to get them with the crosses and I know about them now. They were gettable with the crosses. All crosswords contain trivia and today's puzzle had, to me at least, good trivia and very little boring crosswordese. There wasn't an Oreo or epee in sight and thank Hecate for that.
@Chris I just did an enjoyable crossword puzzle and was not required to donate money to any cause. By your logic, any time I face one of the many puzzles that promote Oreos it would be an extortionate attempt to make me buy a package of those cloying comestibles.
I guess I have to admire the audacious concept of teaming one sublimely talented trio with a ridiculously overexposed troika of triviality. Ah well, parts of this puzzle were pretty good.
Acceptable puzzle. While the crosses made it easy to get the gathering clouds answer, I think that nebulous clue would have been just about impossible to figure out.
@Steve L On a related topic, how are you folks doing down there in Baja Canada?
I thought this was a funny concept and fun to work on. I'm surprised at all the complaints but people pay their money and they can boo if they want to.
Nice puzzle. I'm 71 and had a good laugh when I figured out the answer to 56 across.
Excellent puzzle untainted by Oreos or epees. Let's have more like this.
One of the most annoying puzzles I've ever done.
I enjoyed the rectitudinousness of this puzzle.
@MikeWhat behooved you to say that?
I enjoyed this puzzle even though. as a lifelong Canadian sports fan, 27D and 45D were painful to answer.
@Mike Looks like you're trying to curry favor with that comment.
Enjoyable enough. I'm going to get nitpicky about going pro. Most athletes are already professionals before they play their first games in MLB, the NBA and the NHL They've already been playing for pay in the minor leagues.
@Pendant Certs was a candy mint, Certs was a breath mint.
@Mike Sage fright? Just wait until you see Rosemary's baby.
@Mike I thought it was because they were fiscally attracted to each other.
I solved this puzzle in just over 12 minutes -- by far a personal Thursday record -- and it wasn't a whole lot of fun. The mildly interesting theme wasn't worth the pedestrian fill. Elks? Will there be mooses next week? I'm not really grumpy, I'm just disappointed.
@Richard My stubborn refusal to give up on motes added several minutes to my solve time.
This was a fun one. Lots of clever answers, especially nepotism and proletariat. I liked this so much I'm not even going to complain about Oreo pies.
I nearly gave up in total frustration after 55 minutes with only two-thirds of the puzzle done. Stuck with it, got some late help from a family member and heard the happy music after 1:28. Ultimately had fun.
@Mike Don't worry, if it's a fiddle there's nothing to fret about.
Nice puzzle and I think the constructors really rocked it with their original clue for 23A.
This was a nice challenge. The puzzle went much better for me after I gave up on the concept of people caroming from door to door.
@Marc Ah, but that's not real baseball. Maybe at this point I should admit I think pitchers should still have to bat.
Very interesting. An hour ago I had the second-most recommended post here and now it's gone. I applauded the appearance of a properly named body of water ans wondered if a regressive tax might be applied as a result. Now the comment's been removed. What's up with that?
Too easy, even for a Tuesday. Hey, I'm not grumping, just calling like I see it. Your kilometrage may differ.
@DaveD That actually works in the sense that a grouse is a complaint, so if you have a small grouse you're nitpicking.
I believe Sam Corbin is a Canadian, but she must be a city gal if she didn't realize there have been 4-H clubs in Canada for decades. I belonged to one in Nova Scotia.
@B Buck O'Neil is a baseball answer but his inclusion here is also history. O'Neil was one of the great Black players cruelly denied a chance to play in the majors.
@Andrzej The mere fact that there were a lot of proper nouns didn't bother me because they've always been a feature of crossword puzzles and hey, I like pub trivia. But what was inexcusable was having five names -- Ripa, Renato, Eazye, Redd and Marlo -- being entertainment trivia and on top of that was the Star Wars force choke, which was alien to me. It's a Saturday, it should be a challenge, but don't have so much trivia from one category. On the bright side, no Oreos were detected.
@Daryl I've been doing these crosswords for 45 years but don't share your misgivings. I didn't see anything here that bothered me.
@Barry Ancona I've never understood the enthusiasm some puzzlers express for grid art. I couldn't care less about it. Just give me good words.
@Weak I can understand a complaint obout too much music in that corner but Carousel and Bette Midler are not at all obscure. Carousel is one of the all-time famous Broadway shows and, while maybe the Divine Miss M is hugely popular with the gays, it doesn't matter because with the top 10 hits she's had she clearly had mainstream appeal.