Barbara
Mountain Brook, AL
Mountain Brook, AL
@Joe -- July is the 7th month and can be represented as 7 or abbreviated as Jul. Today is 8/15/26 and a month ago was 7/15/26 or 15 Jul.
@Lizzie -- Could I have a SIP -- perhaps of a martini that was shaken, not stirred.
This was my favorite solve in a long time -- so fun and so funny. I laughed out loud as I solved 2D, about 2/3 of my way through the puzzle.
Loved this puzzle -- appropriately challenging but no Naticks, so I could deduce trivia I didn't know or remember (Tilted Arc, People's Elbow, Yelich). Well done!
@navcad82 I love learning new things while I work these puzzles (ECHOISM is a great example) but IGOTTAJET is a phrase I have never heard or read, and one I hope never to hear or read again.
@Rahul, be glad you don't know. I'm glad I don't know from experience.
My initial answer to 14A was BAMA, which seemed entirely reasonable to me until the crossings made clear it wouldn't work.
@Holland Oats and given that I don't know an Abi from an ABU, this was the Natick for me in the puzzle.
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