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@Michael I'm surprised you received five recommends (and counting) for such a contemptuous comment. It's crossword puzzle, dude.
That took me a while but it was time well spent. Although INSULATIONS will not go down in crossword history as a great answer.
Noticed someone completed today's puzzle in just over four minutes. Even if I knew all the answers beforehand, I'm not sure I could plug them in that fast.
Not sure how I managed to solve this one, but once I got the southeast corner filled in other stuff started to fall into place. A rewarding adventure.
As I finished this puzzle I assumed there were would be complaints about how "easy" it is. I didn't find it all that easy and, as a result, feel pretty darn good about my efforts this morning.
Started slow and then all of a sudden it was done. But SAWS UP for "Sinks one's teeth into"? I got it, but it still doesn't work.
@Andrew To which editorial standards are you referring? I'm confused.
30A makes sense if you consider the diction used. To refer to someone as a "sucker" is to use slang, and that matches, it seems to me, the ungrammaticalness of IBEENHAD.
@Cathy Parrish The University of Georgia's Bulletin describes Cognitive Science as "an emerging new science of mind and intelligent processes in humans, animals, computers, and in the abstract."
@Dave Briticism is apparently the American version of Britishism and predates the latter by about twenty years. Who knew?
That one took a while but was worth every minute.
@Shan You remind me of students who wanted me to post a "trigger warning" when assigning any reading that might conceivably upset someone. Unfortunately, pretty much anything might conceivably upset someone.
Had no idea that interate and reiterate mean the same thing.
That was a workout. I feel like I might have lost some weight.
I liked this puzzle because after the first few minutes my grid was still blank. That always gets me in gear.
A laundry list: <a href="https://blogs.bl.uk/music/2016/08/wash-on-monday-iron-on-tuesday-mend-on-wednesday-churn-on-thursday-clean-on-friday-bake-on-saturday-rest-on-sunda.html" target="_blank">https://blogs.bl.uk/music/2016/08/wash-on-monday-iron-on-tuesday-mend-on-wednesday-churn-on-thursday-clean-on-friday-bake-on-saturday-rest-on-sunda.html</a>
@Lewis Typically "That dog won't hunt." And I think of that as an idiomatic expression rather than slang.
Didn't start on this puzzle until 4:00 this afternoo. No mistakes but not much in the way of enjoyment. Just kinda not my thing.
@Roger Consider this: "I love pumpkin spice lattes!" "Me too!" But: "I don't get why people love pumrkin spuice lattes." "Nor I."
I found this puzzle at times too easy, at other times just plain annoying.
I'm not sure I've ever worked a puzzle with long words so easy to solve.
Last week there were complaints about the puzzles getting easier. Based on this one, Friday's should be a bear.
Solving this was kind of like eating spinach. It's good for you.
@Ben Dunkle Would be a feast at which old folks are not allowed to embellish their personal histories?
@M ALIT is a frequent solution in crossword puzzles. As for SEWER, the word refers to that thing that carries sewage typically underground and also to one who sews.
Reunes? Such a stupid excuse for a word.
After reading many of the comments I thought this would be difficult, but I didn't find it to be. Go figure.
That is a pretty cool puzzle. Difficult but defintely not unsolvable.
Another one of those puzzzles I solved quite easily and don't give a hoot about what the editor found so charming. Note to self: Thursdays are annoying.
@Weak I'm with you on 45D, very clever.
@Helen Wright If you coined "stop and smell the grid" I am impressed.
@Josephine Abbreviation for demographic?
@Coco S Au contraire. They were sold as both breath mints and candy mints, so claimed the TV ads.
One again ICE RAIN appears in a puzzle, but I have never heard anyone refer to freezing rain in that way. What part of the country uses that terminology?
After accidentally stepping on one of his son's Lego, he hopped on one foot. (That just doesn't sound right.)
I had a guess on a few of these and all of my cases were correct. Usually not the case. Very good puzzle.
Tough little puzzle but very enjoyable.
Elston Howard has had me surfing Baseball Reference where I rediscovered that Roger Maris won the American League MVP Award two years in a row. Quite an accomplishment on that team.
One of those clever puzzles with obvious solves that nonetheless eluded me for quite some time.
After reading the truly depressing article about the Geiers and thier shoddy, manipulative autism "research," I needed this puzzle.
@Teddy I think the key is in the metaphor. Literally an old saw is one that has a dull blade.
@Vernon Can you provide an example of "obscure trivia"? Not sure I get what you mean.
Two terrific puzzles in a row!
Fastest Saturday solve for me, and by a longshot.
@Jim Thanks for the link, but whenever I watch a Robin Williams routine I feel like I'm watching a man who's been given ten minutes to prove he's not insane.
@D What do you consider "a musical background"? I don't have one of those, or at least I don't think I do, and had no trouble solving the puzzle. As for puzzle themes, they are always wasted on me. Maybe that means I don't have a thematic background?
The only brief hiccup (hiccough more common from 1849-1949) was thinking FOLLOWTHE LEAD but quickly realized that wouldn't work with ROIL. Otherwise, this was very easy
Etta James has certainly gotten a lot of mileage of "At Last."
DEVISED I'm familiar with but not DEMISED. Of course TRIM gave me no choice.
It begins to look like PAN IN is akin to ICE RAIN, terms used somewhere but maybe only in Crosslandia.