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So many lovely coincidings in this puzzle! SONIC* crossing with BAND* in the top right. (Yes, top right. I’m from Boston—we don’t know nothing ‘bout ordinal directions.) SEXTS and PDA at the top, shy and chaste at the bottom. AMNESIAC and DATA LOSS?! And best of all, I’M HERE at the start and DON’T GO at the end. Had me all <a href="https://youtu.be/TluCpFirXuQ" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/TluCpFirXuQ</a>. Thank you, Ryan!
Nice puzzle overall. My only quibble is with “slap me five.” Nobody says that, colleagues notwithstanding. It’s “Give me five.” Hands down. I guess UP TOP is okay as a follow up. More likely, of course, would be “Up high,” paired with “down low.”
(Second try w Emu-trigger words edited) I found loads of this quite funny. ELIM and NOTSEE with letters OCCLUDED? :) NAUT crossed with NOT, tripled by NOPE (which was my experience with so many of my first-LAID ENTRIES). BAUM above BUTT, with TAUT crossing both. PLUM as a Caribbean synonym for (the other) BAUM. If we have T-TOP, why not a T-bottom? Oh, there it is, right before: T(ight)-END. BRASS and TAILS hauled tail. And then there are the many, many off-color jokes. Sometimes it takes a middle-school mindset to confront another RUMPian day. Which is to say, to behave, as it were, BUTT OUT.
@Ian I was wondering about “reduplicated.“ Isn’t that a bit…. err… redundant? I mean, why do we need re- when we already have copied?
See you, raise you(tube) <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6CR-u1RpWk" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6CR-u1RpWk</a>
@Oikofuge Even if the word was originally derived from the papaya transplanted Caribbean colonizers thought it resembled, the “pawpaw” reffed here is the N America native, Latin name “Asimina triloba.” It’s the only large fruit indigenous to this region and is DELISH—like a combination mango, pineapple, banana, depending on the variety.
Fun puzzle. Bonus was making me think of the children’s clapping song, “Down down baby.” Luckily Sesame Street preserved a version. Skip to 2:14: <a href="https://youtu.be/5K-FpmUUc7U?feature=shared" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/5K-FpmUUc7U?feature=shared</a>
@John Carson I almost always view Wordplay on iPhone and have never encountered this glitch. Including for this thread.
@John Carson Strands #365 “A fungus among-us” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵
@Chris Additional Dwelling Unit. AKEE was my nitpick. I’ve only ever seen it spelled ackee.
@Steve L Also, the clue had to use Madonna because HOLY TRINITY. She’s at least the vehicle (caaaaaar?) for getting HOLY jeez here. God help those who leave that mother out…
@Beth All of the “Alex C” replies sound AI-generated. That doesn’t make this less frustrating, but it may make the non-answer nonsense make more ”sense.”
@Mean Old Lady @Emily @J-J Cote @Manda Adams Our version is: Trot trot to Boston, Trot trot to Lynn, Watch out when you get there ‘Cause you might fall in! My niece especially loves the part where you pop your legs back up, with the kiddo ready for the next ride. This version’s warning fits nicely with the “Lynn, Lynn, city of sin” chant, although it may have been meant less metaphorically in the beginning. In the dark, it would be easy to trot into the marsh on both sides of the road leading in. Which reminds me of a crosswordese (or maybe NYT) nit: Lynn is a city, not a suburb, as anyone who’s lived there (or passed through) knows. Why insist that any city not the hub (pun intended) of a greater metropolitan area is suburban? I laughed out loud seeing Cambridge described this way.
@Lori Taum You don’t. The letters that had been obscured by the trees spell FOREST.
@Andrzej Recognizing that your immediate context is different, I still find your “joke” tone deaf at least or wildly offensive at the extreme. _____ supremacy and the violence it mobilizes against (un)selected people (all one species) is not laughable.
@Oikofuge Fuzzy kiwi or hardy kiwi? I’ll take the later but agree with you on the former. Would also prefer not to even smell persimmon, that other N American native popular with permaculturists.
@Barry Ancona I liked DEGERM. It partnered well with FARRO and Oklahoma’s wheat capital—tho the coincidence first had me filling in KERnEl instead of KENNEL.
@Linda Jo There was plenty of US American trivia, for sure. The only brands I saw, tho, were Swiss (SCHWEPPES) and Danish (DUPLO). Am I missing something? That aside, I liked the puzzle but didn’t like how, even after being revealed, it was… uncomfortable (?) seeing the FOREST in that tree.
@Tom S. Investopedia: “A wholly-owned subsidiary is a company whose common stock is 100% owned by a parent company.” (<a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/whollyownedsubsidiary.asp" target="_blank">https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/whollyownedsubsidiary.asp</a>) “A” subsidiary is not “all” subsidiaries. I’m not seeing the technical flaw.
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