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Am I the only person on earth who spells it "idolators"? What spelling will I find when I get home and consult my old dictionaries?
MAA is a "farm cry"? I kept trying MOO and BAA. I'm not sure what farm creature says this. The farmer's baby?
Only by figuring out the theme was I able to finish this one. Very good.
Like so many puzzles, this one has too much current spoken slang. And a proper cryptic clue is unambiguous. I had IRENE for a long time.
SQUEE? SQUIRCLE? Were these coined especially to complete the puzzle?
@Teddy Answers which require you to spell something that's not a word at all really bother me. I had "ROAR" there for a while.
I've been out of the software business a long time, so the abbreviation "dev" meant little to me. And I only saw the first three Star Wars movies, so I didn't know Disney's slyest trick in naming its films.
Excellent puzzle. It was apparent pretty early that anagrams were involved, but I got none of them directly. Congratulations, Mr. Lieberman, on such an entertaining puzzle.
I doubt I've ever seen it in print, but GROADY with an A is how I would spell it. And a bigwig in the Jarheads certainly outranks every NCO.
@Grant From Wikipedia: The company name is based on the Latin translation of the surname of the founder, August Horch. Horch, meaning 'listen', becomes audi in Latin.
@Tracy I've never seen a Navy ship with its name painted at the bow, much less with the abbreviation U.S.S. A stretch.
@Ms. Billie M. Spaight I, too, have gotten sick of OREO and ETSY!
The last four crosswords I've done (not all NYT) have had ABCS in them. What happened to the Celebes ox and the Hawaiian hen?
It was nice to see that this constructor knows the name of the fifth note of the scale.
Good puzzle. It would be nice if the cell phone edition provided the title, which is often an important clue (as it was here).
I'm not sure where else I might complain about the mini. Those little racing cars are KARTS not CARTS.
@Steve You're feeling "piqued" when someone irritates you, since pique means to prick (as in piqué, the fabric with the little pricked-up dots). The constructor seems to be stretching the sense of personal irritation to feeling sick. It's just an ignorant bad clue in my book. At least that's how it seemed to me when I got it thanks to the verticals.
Hens SET on eggs, not sit.
One of the least likely things you'd see with a telescope is a meteor, but that wasn't the hitch for me. Who is NEO? Why is it ENBY and not ELBY as in LBGTQ...?
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