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SoCal
I hope the AI clue is not the beginning of the end for human puzzle creators. But hey, it’s so much easier and cheaper, right? Kind of like junk “food.” Unhealthy and habit-forming.
So fun!! Easy, breezy, no furrowed brow—just what I want from a Monday puzzle!
This was really fun, esp bc I learned a tiny bit of ASL years ago!! The drawings were excellent. My first completed Wednesday puzzle, but I did have to use Check Puzzle. A year ago I could only finish Monday🎉
Perfect for a Monday! Easy, breezy, fun.
I grew up about 35 miles south of that lake in the puzzle and never heard it referred to as the thumb of the finger lakes. But I haven’t lived there in decades, so maybe it’s a new thing
Had it not been for SEERED ( couldn’t see it as two words!), I would have solved the puzzle. Even though tricky in places, I still enjoyed it. Fun mix of easy and brain twisting.
Fun, easy start to the week!!
“On toe” is not used by most ballet dancers today. It’s pretty old-fashioned. En pointe is the correct term. Seems like it could be a useful crossword answer.
First time I got all the longer answers but still couldn’t solve without revealing letters. Lower right hand corner stumped me - didn’t know Māori dance, used OIL instead of TIN and just couldn’t get there. I can never solve anything beyond Tuesdays, and I thought several crossings were pretty hard for a Monday.
That was easy and fun, perfect for a Monday puzzle!
Lower left a bit left field for a Monday. The rest was fine.
This had a fun, rewarding theme. With Warren simple at the outset, it made it easy to figure out what was going on with the rest, although crossing pop culture clues (Lady Gaga song and Spice Girls) almost sunk me.
Sorry, but while it’s technically true that “cal” is “part” of UCLA, “Cal” is used to refer to UC Berkeley.
@The X-Phile. I’ve heard the same thing from students who used English first names—that our well-meaning mispronunciation of Chinese, which also includes the tones, changed their name to a completely different word.
What does TLDR mean? Is it an acronym?
@mirle234 the only reason I knew Oorah is bc I always watch tv with captions and it was used all the time on Boots on Netflix!
@Warren. Hahaha. Thanks for that!
GOHAM? Never heard this, what dies it mean?
@Mean Old Lady Never heard of oaten. (Spellcheck just changed it to often). 🤣
Film-Elam? What does that mean?
Super easy, one after another, Tra La la until 58 across, which brought it all to a screeching halt with truncated lazy words that spoiled a perfectly good puzzle.
@pat in oregon. I remember this now from old westerns and other old folksy movies, but I didn’t get it until I had the H and the E.
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