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@Andrzej Sidearm is a way of throwing a ball or pitching. A pitch is called a delivery, as in "Here comes the delivery, he sidearms that pitch right over the plate for strike three!" Rocky Balboa says a lot of Yo's in the Rocky movies.
@SP I did not get the Oscar until just now. Thank you for that call back!
Fun one today. Twice as quick as Saturday and no look ups! Go women ❤️
@pjc I felt the same. Too many "guess what I'm thinking." Clues. Sigh. A very slow solve for me today.
Did anyone else put in CLIP for CLOP and get a spicy answer for 58D 😳 ?
@patk Hawkeye is a nickname for someone from Iowa, the Hawkeye State. (Family brag, Radar is my 2nd cousin!)
Diego Luna - also a soccer player in MLS and one of the last cuts from the USMNT World Cup roster. Next time, Ryan? Tricky puzzle, no idea what FAE is, got that and FIT for mesh last.
@Sam please don't shorthand a school's sports conference to just "football". UVA has a rich history in the ACC in many more women's and men's sports. (Their football program isn't even all that great, historically)
Saw the clues for the first few accrosses and quickly switched to the downs. Overall a faster than average solve for me, but not as "fun". I give this puzzle a meh. Clever, and I don't mind the 2 word paired clues as part of the gimmick/ theme, but didn't love it as the entire puzzle.
@john ezra Post Punk/ Pre Goth, they had a long tenure. Wikipedia has a good thumbnail of their sound. I would say their later music is goth (inasmuch as The Cure is). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_and_the_Banshees" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_and_the_Banshees</a>
Now THIS was a fun gimmick! Well done. My favorite was thanks a ten^six ❤️
I really wanted 3D to be "Drink the kool aid" alas.
Whew. That was TRICKY for a Tuesday. I struggled with the NW corner but somehow still finished faster than average with no lookups. Clever one and figuring out the theme really helped.
Overall not super hard but for a Monday that was kinda tricky! Knavery almost stumped me.
This was very hard for a Wednesday, and the MIDI was a GenZ dream but a nightmare for this GenXer. I think it was my slowest MIDI ever!
@Sue S Maybe it was because I was so DROWSY, oop no, DRAGGY !
Fun other than the very suspect word ecoteur. Never hoid of it. Ah well.
@Andy Peels is a plural noun though?
@DIVAS IVLIVS I felt the same about "clay" for 10D
@Andrzej It was a Saturday morning show in the 70's (maybe 60's and 80's too?) with costumed characters who also introduced short cartoons. I always thought they were double f's: H.R. Puff N Stuff but I guess my childhood memory is wrong 😂!
@LeCheffre but it's not spelled wrong, like many crossword answers, it's an acceptable spelling. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yenta" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yenta</a>
This was a slog. Figured out the theme after I had all the clues filled in, found it more annoying than clever. Ah well. Finished just faster than average time.
@Andrzej caffeine pill. My brother, who doesn't drink coffee, used to take with his breakfast on early days.
Hoo boy! I struggled more than normal for a Tuesday on the SE corner. Sure this wasn't a snuck in Wednesday?
I really enjoyed the pictures/ film title mashups. So fun!
@Bob Recently read The Correspondent. Also highly recommend.
Fun puzzle. Congratulations on your debut!
Great job by the creator, but not my cup of tea. I seemed to be on a different wavelength completely from the creator. A lot of my crossers were wrong for a long time (like TEST for 2D and REVEAL. for 4D), which made the theme clues hard to parse. Didn't find the gimmick gave me an "aha" moment as knowing / seeing the theme still didn't help me solve those. Anyway, I'm sure others loved it, just not my jam.
@John Same here! I almost googled "pragency" then literally 🤦🏻♀️
Re 1A : Locks are also bodies of water where one might find oars. 😊
@ThatPeterG Sera is the plural of serum, which is a part of the blood that is banked. (I had ONEG in there for a long time!)
Sooooo hard today! Slogged through after staring at some of the part words for what seemed like hours. 18 minutes slower than average, whoa.
Tricky Wednesday but got 'er done without hints/ lookups!
Should not give Tebow any more seconds of fame than he's already had. Otherwise a tricky and good puzzle. Had TIARA for the longest time so got stuck in the SW Corner for a bit. Also couldn't figure out what we were waving (AT/TO/HI)! Still a decent time for me.
@Sam Corbin Interesting, my art school friends and family are pretty sports savvy, but to each their own! I would say that even for a non sports person UVA is historically best known for basketball. Their soccer teams (men's and women's) and women's swim team have been national champs and they've a load of their swimmers have won Olympic medals.
Lots of folks saying this was an easy puzzle and maybe so, but the sheer number of clues being lower due to so many long crosses may have more to do with the quicker times. I enjoyed this one, clues/ answers weren't super easy but were "gettable" with crosses, which made it fun. Well done Mr. Logan.
Tricky but satisfying for a Monday. Surprisingly a little faster than average for me.
Stuck on one letter off. Thought the law exam alternative was GLE and did not know Erato/Elato lol. Still finished it pretty quickly for me for a Sunday!
@Ms. Billie M. Spaight PUL and LUP are anagrams of each other. Don't think either is a word?
Whew this was a really tough one for me! So many where I had the wrong answer filled in. Once I figured those out, I was able to muddle through the rest fairly quickly. Overall a slow solve.
@Jim Ready Player One is the book mentioned in the clue.
@acjones Are you sure you weren't on Monday? This was not an easy puzzle for many (including me).
@Steve L Some Gap stores are big box-ish (think like Macy's and Nordstroms). There is one in UVillage here in Seattle that is huge, 2 floors with an escalator inside. (We don't have Aldi here, but I've heard of it as the parent store of Trader Joe's)
@Steve L The dash threw me off for that one. Thought it was supposed to be a "finish this word". Got it eventually but had post for a long time (as in "ex post facto")
@fionatimes The store is really well organized and has lots of signs and look up stations to help you out. Not overwhelming, but can absorb you for hours!
@Chris It was a lot more clever than that, as explained in the Wordplay article. 😊
Someone explain how small amounts leads to "mites" (I mean, they are small, but not amounts). What am I missing? Tricky puzzle. I had "antiwar lovefest" but then fest didn't really pan out.
@Bill It's Commonwealth related (Like the monarch on their currency and the "ou" like in favourite and flavor).
@Adrian I did absolutely the same thing!