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It is news to me that baby goats can only pronounce M’s and don’t develop the ability to form the B sound until the third year.
I’m a Mon / Tue gal and this was beyond my skill set. Now if you’ll excuse me I’ll be practicing a chignon.
Enjoyed the reference to Indiana Jones. My archeology professor gave extra credit to whoever watched the movies and wrote a paper on all the academic inaccuracies. Maybe to give a reality check and make sure we didn’t go into the field believing we’d be action heroes. But you never know, it could happen!
My brain processing 38A: Bird 3 letters = EMU (Facepalm) I immediately had to Google and see if I could justify myself in that moment. Maybe emus really are wise? Nope.
Yup, sure, you betcha.
As a Minnesotan I was hoping 27A was going to be a quick hit, but alas it went over my head. 46A made me smile thinking about my roommate Teigan in college, and people would always say “oh like the band!” when we were together, which was the only way I found out about them. Finally, 47A is a masterpiece of a song, I’ll not hear otherwise.
To my mom’s, DISMAY I made a huge MESS by DYEING the hair of my life size BARBIE. Good times.
@Bill I must whole heartedly disagree. Although I do realize “bag” can be a challenge. Last time I was at a coffee shop in California asking for a bag, the barista couldn’t understand me and thought I wanted a bagel. Alas, I am proud of my dialect….and of gray duck.
Best one yet, in my humble inexperienced opinion.
48D…Anyone else thought this was Treats? Treat yourself? Maybe I have done that too much lately.
@B thanks for the 08/28/24 recommendation, a fun and extremely clever nightcap!
@Michael how fun! My cousin has gone to Antarctica for the Corps of Engineers and probably gets annoyed I ask him about it every time we get together. Always so fun to hear about such a unique experience.
@Frank This took me down a rabbit hole of the history of English. Admittedly didn’t even know Chaucer…is that too embarrassing to admit in a place like this?
@Allen You are not alone in thinking that. Fun puzzle overall but that threw me for a loop! My mind went to this: Don’t repeat words in your clues that appear in the grid It can feel like a spoiler, seeing a word on the clue side of the page and later having to fill that same word into the grid. Sometimes it might be a judgment call about whether the duplicated word is really substantive. A repetition of basic articles and connector words may be permissible. <a href="https://nytimes.com/2018/07/11/crosswords/how-to-make-a-crossword-puzzle-4.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb" target="_blank">https://nytimes.com/2018/07/11/crosswords/how-to-make-a-crossword-puzzle-4.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb</a>
@Jonathan that was a fun fact for the day. The wiki image gave me a laugh. Guess they save their brain power for strategic use!
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