Nobis Miserere
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Unpublishable and certainly no fun, IMO. Names are fine when a constructor gets stuck, but as the main part of the puzzle? I think not.
How do they know ants take naps?
I’d like to vent about Vertex being dropped.
Wonderful puzzle made difficult by clueing, not by the use of trivia and proper nouns. Kudos.
Green Bay Packers didn’t exactly help.
I always thought PEACOCK was the name of a bird equivalent to, say, ROBIN. Didn’t connect it with PEAHEN.
Lots of original stuff, at least to me. Nice job.
Whoa! A real beauty. One natick-ey part but well worth it.
Always thought SCAN meant give a quick read, the opposite of the meaning here.
@Dan Supremes is a singing group.
27D reminds me of a Harvard Lampoon headline: Ray Kroc is McDead. Not in the best taste perhaps, but still . . .
Well, that was strange. I solved it, as I’m sure many others did, without the faintest idea what any of it meant. Some nice clueing.
Puzzles as good as this one deserve, with harder clueing, a later day in the week, IMHO.
I came upon Piet Mondrian in a high school art class. I thought he was a fraud then and still do.
There are answers I don’t know and answers I have no interest in knowing. This was full of the latter. Didn’t work for me.
Odd thing about WHOM: though correct, it feels almost pedantic to use it.
I always thought SWANKY implied expensive but tasteless.
43D reminds me of a Mort Sahl joke re: the title of Wernher von Braun’s best-seller: I Aim for the Stars, But Sometimes I Hit London.
This has to do with yesterday’s puzzle (and many others), but am I the only one who’s confused by AAH and AHH?
Wonderful. Doesn’t belong on Tuesday, though.
“Ego” is not the “inner self” and “era” has nothing to do with time duration. Just sayin’.
@RSA Interestingly (to me), I feel the same way about limo. Affordable or not, it’s something that, ahem, just isn’t done. I know: snobbish.
@Francis Good point, but my criticisms — on the very rare occasions they’re allowed — are not so much directed at the constructor — I doubt I could construct one myself — but at the editor for allowing the puzzle to be published. I think the presence of a bevy of proper nouns, for example, should be discouraged and publishing such puzzle is IMHO a disservice.
11D. Never heard of this. Derivation, anyone?
@Amy It’s pleasing to the eye, no doubt. But then there’s Jackson Pollock . . .
@The X-Phile Not in mine there isn’t. Never occurred to me. I live in a town through which runs the Mianus River, and to my puzzlement girlfriends were always giggling about it. Finally, one explained.
One of the best. Would have been better suited for Saturday.
@Regina 1) No, they don’t, and neither do psychologists.
A KEEL is not the bottom of a boat.
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