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Got it but clueless to the end until I read Wordplay. Brilliant! One of the best.
Agghh! This one did me in! I had two fatal mistakes making sense to me - not knowing Huckleberry Hound, YORI seemed perfectly reasonable as did a 4 and 6 point STAR…hmmm…and then, while maybe IRONON hipster t-shirts seemed better than IRONIN hipster t-shirts, IRONIN seemed perfectly reasonable alongside SIN as a solve for [I know it’s wrong]. Two great traps! Defeated, off I go into the night. It was a fun puzzle, though!
The Walt Disney factoid was completely new to me. Loved it!
I enjoyed this puzzle - just challenging enough not to get frustrating. The tough ones for me were having a more general idea of a target market, i.e. GENERATIONS not GENERATIONZ and trying to figure out an athleisure portmanteau ending in U because I was sure a lift type was UBER and I couldn’t get HERON because I had UPPITY not UPPISH. It’s all connected, isn’t it? It sorted itself out eventually and was rewarding to finish.
Taking a 15 minute nap and getting rid of NONCHALANT for BLANKSTARE and STAT for ASAP made all the difference for me today. It’s always such a challenge when you get one letter in a crossing early on and you cannot replace that seemingly correct solve in your mind or in the puzzle.
Congratulations on your 1 yr anniversary, Sam! I enjoy your upbeat early week columns. And, I dare say, your punniness.
I found the 3 clues stacked in the southeast corner admirably creative and amusing. [2000 parody of a 62-Across] [Postponed court date?] and [Skirt with a bunch of leaves, perhaps]. Very enjoyable solve today.
@Barry Ancona Ooof! So I guess one offers a vow and it’s not an exchange until both do. Ok. Thanks!
Couldn’t figure out why [“!!!”] solved to ORG but that had to be my fatal flaw. Never heard of ERM and ERR… seemed logical: uhh…err interchangeable, no? Had to run the alphabet but OMG it worked!
@Down_Home Same here. I thought that was a great clue.
Tougher than the average Tuesday, whatever that may be, leading me to carp on… CLOSETHIGH didn’t fit. Neither did close thigh now that I write it out. If NERTS was a stretch, DRILY was a pulled muscle. Agree with all the ones who have pointed out SSGTS as not quite accurate. Fell into the trap for ISAW (VIDI). CHIANG and AGGRO was a particularly annoying crossing. I do enjoy seeing Mel Torme still making the rounds.
Sorry if I missed it, but I didn’t see anyone else get thrown by the 5D [Common lunch box item] and 15A [Like sci-fi’s Jabba the Hutt] crossing. PNJ I thought. That lead to ONESE. Not knowing Jabba the Hutt’s exact origins led to Onese ancestry seeming to be perfectly reasonable. PNB then never crossed my mind.
@Tom Martin I also thought that was the reference. It’s always interesting how so much language works in so many different directions at the same time. It’s a wonder we can ever communicate and get things done.
@Times Rita I had the same problem with this. It took me forever to see Vaio even though I had one once. Never knew it became a brand.
Rather late on this but I had to put the puzzle down for a while after checking and checking to find my mistake. I kept thinking YESH was not a solve for [Opposite of “nah”]…it just didn’t seem right, but I was darn sure CHINS was a great solve for [Some porcelain pieces “] somehow thinking taking one on the chin involved a fragile subset of chins. Oh well…
@coloradoz I got OERTER right somehow through the mists of memory. I was tickled the other day to see Warren Spahn as well. Never saw him pitch in person, though growing up in Boston I remember hearing Spahn, Sain and a day of rain whenever stories were told of the old Boston Braves.
@Laurence of Bessarabia Glad I wasn’t the only one remembering the Rambling Jack Elliott cover of this Woodie Guthrie song!
@Heidi I’m with you on EARLIP not EARLAP especially because ICS made sense as (summertime) [Coolers, for short]. An EARLIP is as good as an EARLAP any day, just as an IC can be as cooling as an AC. Though I guess I should have known that the conventional spelling is ICEE.
@Byron Well I realized it was CONTACTHIGH. Just a joke to see if anyone else recalled CLOSETHIGH which was in common use in NYC in the 60s. @Steve L is correct. I felt that DRILY spelt that way was a bit more than Tuesday calls for. Clued straightforwardly enough but WRYLY ran through my permutations too!
Shouldn’t [Wedding exchange] be [Wedding exchanges]? If not, please explain. Thx
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