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Relative difficulty: Easy (9:02)
Theme answers:
- "IS THIS A BAD TIMER?" (23A: "Should I not use my oven clock?"?)
- WORKS FROM HOMER (35A: The "Iliad" and the "Odyssey"?)
- PICK UP THE PACER (52A: Give a ride to an Indiana hoopster?)
- WATCH YOUR TONER (75A: Printer's low-ink alert?)
- TOOK THE PLUNGER (89A: What a plumber did for a clogged drain?)
- FIVE-SECOND RULER (105A: World's shortest-reigning monarch?)
noun
COMPUTING
"there's a useful control applet which can be used to center the picture"
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Yes, we are finished, and not a second too soon, as this one wore out its thematic welcome pretty quickly. Hard to think of a simpler theme concept (it's just an add-a-letter), and the parameters aren't narrow at all, i.e. there are way more potential themers than one could ever use in one puzzle, e.g. phrases ending in BONE/R, STONE/R, LIFE/R, GAME/R, etc.). Because the theme is so simple and loose, I expect the theme answers to *kill* every single time, but the only one that really struck me as funny and original is FIVE-SECOND RULER. Everything else is more of a shrug. Yeah, it works, but so what. The wackiness just isn't wacky enough. You can't carry a Sunday-size wacky-phrase theme with so little in the way of wacky. On the plus side, the grid is very clean, and the longer non-theme stuff is often quite good (see, for example, PET PROJECT, PHOTO BOMBS, COMBO MEALS, "OH, GROW UP!"). So I didn't groan and ugh the way I often do when puzzles are poorly filled. But I never got over my initial theme-inspired ENNUI (38D: It makes you yawn) (btw I think of ENNUI as somewhat deeper and more existential than mere boredom, but we'll leave that hair to split for another time).
Not much in the way of difficulty here. Most of my trouble, such as it was, came in the middle of the grid, specifically at the end of PICK UP THE PACER (which I initially thought ended in "HOOSIER"). I didn't know that ISLAM's calendar began in A.D. 622 (maybe 622 CE is more appropriate for this clue) and so APPLET, CLOTHE (oh, a verb!) (54D: Attire), and esp. MAU (49D: Egyptian ___ (cat)) gave me mini-fits. I also had BETTER and RICHER before POORER (64D: Comparative in a wedding vow).
Five things:
- 114A: Sign of a packed house (SRO) — Sold Right Out!*
- 66D: Computer guru, informally (IT PRO) — not great, but sooo much better than ITGUY
- 35D: Got taken for a ride (WAS HAD) — me, for what felt like hours: "WASH AD ... WASH AD ... what is a WASH AD? ... wait, is it WASHED? ... no, it's definitely LAMA (57A: Teacher of the dharma), so ... WASH AD? ... what is a WASH AD?"
- 79D: Old dentist's supply (ETHER) — yeesh, how old *is* this dentist?
- 85D: Powerpoints? (OUTLETS) — I had OUTAGES. Speaking of OUTAGES, hope my NYC readers are surviving today's. Stay cool and safe, Gothamites!
*I know this isn't technically "correct," please, no letters
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So many recent Sunday puzzles have been tedious slogs that provide me very little enjoyment. But today’s I found to be fun; easy, but fun. And picturing Rex’s head exploding as he made his way to his safe space after filling in 42D, didn’t distract from the enjoyment at all. And apparently, it didn't affect Rex, as he didn't mention it.
ReplyDeleteMAU was a bit unusual and I had to think a second or two before I understood what PHOTOBOMBS meant. Otherwise the challenge was staying awake to finish this long and easy puzzle.
ReplyDeleteNice pairing of LEMME and GIMME.
Rex is back, just in time for Bastille Day! Play La Marseillaise!
ReplyDeleteBonjour to @mericans in Paris! I was hoping the puzzle might sport a Bastille theme, but the only French we get is a measly BERET and the cancan from "ORPHEUS In The Underworld". And RENÉE Fleming, who isn't even French. Quel dommage, n'est ce-pas?
Anyway, to the puzzle. Better than most Sundays of late, though nothing will beat last week's chess game. The problem with the themers here is that once you have one figured out, it's too easy to get the rest of them. From the title I already suspected the "r" gimmick, and as soon as I had IS IT A BAD TIMER, I could immediately see the rest of the endings: HOMER, PACER, etc. -- the clues pretty much just gave them away.
Still, it was not unenjoyable. PET PROJECT, CALIPHS, ONION ROLLS, CODE WORD were all good entries. My favorite clue is the one for HIT MAN. I'm surprised Rex didn't complain about the ? in the PHOTO BOMBS clue, since it's not one of the themers.
Let's celebrate le 14 juillet with a rousing chorus of La Vie En Rose. I'll sing the lyrics, and you repeat them after me. Ready?
Me first:
La la la la la la la, la la la la la la
Okay, now you...Oh, very good!! Next part:
la la la la la laaah laaah
Now you...
Your list of answers en français forgot 12D, MER. :)
DeleteEasy-medium. My biggest hang up, was mOIre before TOILE.
ReplyDeleteSimple breezy Sun. with some amusing theme answers, so, once again, liked it more than @Rex did.
SRO=standing room only
ReplyDeleteRAWR? Hmm.
Can we talk about ROWR? I have never seen this anywhere ever. It is RAWR, if anything at all.
ReplyDeleteEven when I had KRANOS for Zeus's father, I figured it was some weird variant I hadn't seen (I usually see Cronos or maybe Cronus) rather than come up with the incomprehensible ROWR. Just. no.
Welcome home, Rex, we missed you. Sounds like you had a fun holiday.
ReplyDeleteThis was a cute Sunday puzzle. A little too easy, but light and breezy. After the first added R I just went ahead and added ER to all the long ones. I usually like a little more “trick” to Sundays, but this was fine for a change of pace.
Had a few write overs like açaí before KALE at 21A and yes no before GIMME at 104A, but other than putting the right word in the wrong spot, I do that a lot and it pisses me off, that was about it.
I did laugh out loud at 78A A POP.
Avatar was chuffed to see her name in print at 101D.
Welcome back, @Rex! We'll be in SW Colorado, for my nephew's wedding, in a couple of weeks.
ReplyDeleteMrs. 'americans picked up the newspaper and completed it on the metro and while waiting for and getting her hair done, so I had to wait until this morning to do it on the iPad. Took me 10 Rexes! OH DEERE!
The themers, while not whacky, were in a couple of cases amusing, IMO. IS THIS A BAD TIMER tickled me, and as somebody who now WORKS FROM HOME, I liked how adding an R changed the phrase's meaning completely. And, like @Rex, my first guess on 52A was PICK UP a hoosiER.
Anybody else notice that HATS HANG from HANG?
As a recent retiree, my first impulse on 3D was "coffee break", but THAT'S one letter too long.
One nit: I would never say that PULP is an OJ choice. "With PULP", OK. By the way, the grocery store across the street seems to always have "sans PULP" in stock, but hardly ever does it have "avec PULP", much less with extra PULP. I realize that some folks' digestive systems might have trouble with PULP, but OJ without it is mainly sugar-water.
Speaking of edibles, I was surprised that COD was the answer to 106D. According to this recipe for fish tacos, many kinds of fish are acceptable, including halibut, mahi mahi, snapper, flounder, grouper or tilapia, as well as COD. I had assumed that Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) were found only in waters considerably north of Mexico and Southern California, but upon further research, I see that their range reaches as far south as Santa Monica. So this mid-Atlantic person learned something new.
THAT'S IT.
Cute theme and a solid solving experience, with bits of flak causing me to stutter step rather than glide on cruise control through this. Stutter stepping builds character and makes the solve a deed rather than simply a get-through.
ReplyDeleteSWADDLE is a great word. Constructors, please don't overuse it and knock it off my pedestal!
And Caitlin, thank you, and keep throwing down that precious flak. More, please!
The themers didn’t do all that much for me, but I really liked the puzzle as a whole and had a very pleasant solving experience.
ReplyDeleteI knew from the first “wacky” in the write-up that Rex was back. I enjoyed most of the guest bloggers, but Rex’s return gave me an odd sensation of comfort. And I’m not a binger, but it’s very easy to watch three straight of Stranger Things 3.
Much more sustainable fun here today than the usual Sunday. Nice puzzle!
Even Urban Dictionary, which seems to have definitions for just about any combination of letters, can't really get enthusiastic about ROWR.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, remarkable free of dubious clues or answers.
This seemed to me to be more or less a throwback sort of a Sunday, reminded me of the kind of Sunpuzzes I used to do when I started doing them (cough) years ago. Find the theme, see if you can guess the long answer just from the clue. "Sundays Will Never Be the Same"? Or maybe they will.
ReplyDeleteAll in all enjoyable for me. Started from the middle bottom and worked my way up and finished much faster than I at first thought I would, pleasantly surprising myself and leaving way too much time for all the work that needs doing outside. Duty calls, and no, my wife is not named Duty.
Thanks for the fun CR. Hey Rex--have fun in Montreal. One of my favorite cities. Have a smoked meat sandwich for me.
Same question as @anonymous: what the hell is ROWR? (Saw one definition - Rehabilitation Oasis for Women Recovering - but that doesn't seem right.)
ReplyDeleteI think it's supposed to be the sound a loud cat makes when you step on its tail.
DeleteA much better clue for ROWR would have been, say, "18 seats away from the stage?"
I don't get ROWR at all, nor RAWR. Can someone explain? The puzzle was quite easy--except for this!
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ReplyDeleteWelcome back, Rexxie ole boy. It's not the same without your daily snark. Found the puzzle quite enjoyable yet spent way over the five MINUTE rule with the tortuous ROWR. I wanted ROAR so bad I could taste it. But, alas, it was not to be unless EAES became a newly discovered flock of creatures. Also wanted KELP instead of KALE, kelp being the new trendy entree (at least here in San Francisco). Yes, yes, yes: the theme was easy but nonetheless very clever.
ReplyDeleteCheers.
Totally agree on the ROWR comment, it seemed wildly random to me. But apparently it was used in the nyt crossword just two years ago so at least there's a precedent, I guess.
ReplyDeleteGlad to have Rex back. Enjoyed the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteAppropriate to 37D, here's a Seinfeld segment I always liked a lot.
Fun easy lazy Sunday. The only one that tickled my funny "bone/r", to quote Rex (welcome back; cute new pic, MEOWWWW!), was "Works From Homer." Or Hunger, if you're a kvetch.
ReplyDelete@JoeDiPinto, aren't those actually the lyrics to "Those Were The Days"?
I was half-expecting you to cite Helen Reddy's "I am Woman. Hear me ROWR."
@Quasi -- Actually I was attempting to recreate a scene from "The Cheap Detective".
DeleteDon't understand the uproar over ROWR. It's what my cats used to say, or sometimes ROWRRRR. Never "rawr", which would be pronounced "rawer" and would be a ridiculous thing for a cat to say. Unless it was unhappy with how its dinner was cooked, I guess.
What the heck is ROWR. I had roar and was stuck there for a lowng time. Just, what!?!?
ReplyDeleteThought for the day: Going around a puzzle filling in "S"s for plurals tells you just about nothing. But going around a puzzle filling in "R"s at the ends of answers tells you just about everything you need to know. And though I normally don't skip around puzzles, once I had the theme of this one, I went gleefully around putting in the final "R"s of theme answers and then filling in the spaces around them.
ReplyDeleteThis made a pretty easy puzzle a great deal easier.
The funny phrases were all smooth and accurately clued. There were some nice non-theme clues as well: STEREO; BERET; CAMP; HITMAN. There are more, but no time to go through them: I have a tennis match to watch. Nice job, Caitlin -- a fun theme well executed.
I'll try again. Seinfeld
ReplyDeleteFor me, a ho-hum theme until the (silent) yelp of delight at FIVE SECOND RULER. Nice Downs!
ReplyDelete@Rex, loved your dentist bullet.
WORKS FROM HOMER is my favorite with FIVE SECOND RULER a close SECOND. This was clued straightforwardly, mostly, so pretty easy, but it is clean and clever. My favorite clue was "How balloons are price" = A POP. 9D's "Cover-up for a robbery" was pretty good also.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a few too many animated movie answers (EELS, COCO, HIPPO). WASHAD looks weird in the grid, though I entered it from the clue rather than seeing it from crosses. I didn't know ENO wrote the Microsoft sound on a Mac, which is fun.
ROWR is how I would write that kitty sound so no problem here.
Thanks, Caitlin, for a fun and easy Sunday solve.
I agree that there is room for wackier, but these were fine. And the fill was much better than I’ve come to expect from a NYTX Sunday, so thumbs up all around.
ReplyDeleteChuckled at my boyhood hometown appearing. And, of course, for TULIPS. Nigh on impossible to explain how truly bizarre that festival is if you think about it too deeply.
@‘mericans - COD got the slightly arched eyebrow here, too. I knew what the puzzle wanted but to my taste buds it is all about the spices, not the specific fish.
Regarding ROWR, is there such a thing as incorrectly spelling onomatopœia? I think RaWR more closely replicates how I hear that sound, but ROWR strikes me as okay, too.
Still chuckling at the assumptions exposed by REACTions to a fairly innocent conversation yesterday about whether or not a particular word is insulting in common usage. Since so many of you seem to care, Dutch on my father’s side, but my maternal grandmother immigrated from Spain. Unlike my mom, all her siblings married Mexican-Americans.
I was ready for a nice fun puzzle and this one fit the bill. The clues had a light-hearted feel overall. I liked all of the theme answers esp. five second ruler. In a house with two dogs that rule takes on a little different slant since no food ever lasts five seconds once it hits the floor.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite clue/answer was the balloon/a pop. Hi @ chefwen.
Welcome home Rex. It sounds like the break was good for you.
Best Sunday puzzle ever.
ReplyDeleteGoad one 😎
DeleteFun and clever. I like that OH GROW UP crosses WATCH YOUR TONE(R)!
ReplyDeleteA printer that is low on ink would never give any sort of alert about toner.
ReplyDeleteHey All !
ReplyDeleteROWR about the kerfuffle over that. I put that in from R__R. Have actually never seen in as RaWR. Different folks and all that. Or maybe I'm just odd. (Probably...)
Anyway, an add-a-letter puz that was pretty NEAT. Got a chuckle REACTion out of most of them. As @mmorgan said, as soon as I saw "wacky" in the write-up, I said, "Rex is back!"
59D, what, now I have to be a Rocket Scientist? Har.
Writeovers, SHOElACe-SHOERACK (which held up the PICK, as had P_CE_, thinking it might be PACERP___PACER, picturing the AMC car), acai-KALE (is acai passe?), tuxeS-LIMOS (embarrassing as a LIMO driver I never seem to get that answer correct), ITguy-ITPRO.
NE corner held me up for a bit. The tuxeS first not helping, and for some reason, LIMBS just wouldn't come to me. Did have HONE, but again, the ole brain shut down and couldn't see an animal from HI___. Ugh. So changed it to tONE, and put tIger in. Finally realizing my lightly written in CoCoa might possibly be CACAO, my non-musical knowledge broke open and revealed to me ATEMPO, which finally LEMME see HIPPO, and I was able to complete the corner.
And, no errors! Two days in a row of complete error-FREE puzs. Look out! On a roll!
Fun clue for ROGET. DRNO popular as of late. TOILE I believe finally imbedded into the mind. Thanks previous crosswords!
EAGER APES
RooMonster
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Don't like ROWR either, but I get it: to be said dramatically, with a clawing motion, to describe, like meowwww, something really catty. Did like APSE x APES and AGATE x AGAVE.
ReplyDeleteThis was a pleasant enough solve, pretty easy. I got IS THIS A BAD TIMER right off and the rest fell into place. It’s not even close to last week’s grand epic, the magisterial (and long-awaited, by me) fusion of a chess game with a crossword puzzle. But then, I don’t expect to encounter such a great puzzle again.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the solving experience was spoiled for me by 18 across, which I filled in with gritted teeth while swallowing vile curses. No, APES are NOT the “closest relatives” of humans. Rather, humans ARE apes — specifically in the subcategory Great Apes, which comprises us, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. Our closest relatives are CHIMPANZEES, defined as those with whom we share a most recent common ancestor.
Give so many misconceptions among even many educated people about evolutionary biology, it’s unfortunate to see the NY Times adding to the confusion. I did, however, like the crossing of APES with ASPE.
Agree. Couldn’t fit chimps or bonobos in that space; tried PANS (genus name, pluralized) but that led to chaos.
Deleterowr - Urban Dictionary
ReplyDeletehttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rowr
exclamation. Used to express one's arousal at a person or idea. The written form of the "sexy cat growl/purr".
I didn't like the puzzle today. The grid was fair but the cluing (largely) uninspired. I don't mind easy, but this just felt robotic and joyless.
ReplyDeleteThe puns were OK I guess.
I don't usually love, and rarely even like, Sunday puzzles, but I really liked this one. Not because of the theme, as others have mentioned. But because it was so well-thought out and clever and fun and not working too terribly hard to "get" us. I guess if you have 4 kids under your feet, you just try to amuse people. Which is what I felt. I have to say that the theme that I loved at the first point (Timer) fell down at the second, because I knew it would end with Pacer. The clue could have been better and I bet it was, originally. But after that, it was fine.
ReplyDeleteI'm embarrassed to admit that until I read @Nancy, I didn't realize that each theme ended with an R. I just thought, like Rex did, that it was add-a-letter. I think it's because I didn't read the title OUT LOUD. Or maybe I'm just stupid.
Anyway, nice job, Caitlin. Keep it up! Rex will be happy for you because you are a girl. And I don't care what you are, as long as you deliver! (And I don't mean children.)
What I found on urban dictionary for ROWR might be applicable to our big fat male cat, Charlie, when he starts his morning pursuit of our female cat, Faith. Faith uses the Seinfield version of ROWR as she fights him off. This is then followed by his moaning about the inevitable rejection. They are very VOCAL cats, especially at 5 am which they consider morning and I consider the middle of the night. Charlie follows the nanoSECOND RULE. Faith follows the FIVE hour or possibly even longer RULE. As a result of her picky eating habits Charlie keeps expanding. She’ll eat a few leisurely bites in the morning while Charlie is locked up on the bathroom for an hour after he gobbles down a full bowl in less than a minute. Once we release him from the bathroom she’ll decide she wants more food and escalate to swatting and biting my feet until I cave and put a bit more kibble in her bowl. Then she’ll eat one single kibble and leave the rest for Charlie. I keep wondering when that stomach of his might POP.
ReplyDeleteAlas, back to the nattering nabob of negativism. So refreshing to have positive, upbeat critiques for a while.
ReplyDeleteWhen’s that next vacation...???
Bax’N’Nex
Meow stretched out that way is not a cat sound. People of a certain age will understand it to be a patriarchal slang expression of desire for a woman, often one involved in what was called a "cat fight". In my Google search, oddly, Rowr comes right up in the Urban Dictionary as an exclamation used to express one's arousal at a person or idea. I've never heard it either.
ReplyDeleteIt took me quite a while to wrap my head around com-BA-me-als, guess I've been reading too much about Odysseus lately.
Easy puzzle; as usual the theme did not grab my attention, but lots of nice fill and clueing.
Happy 14th to those who celebrate. I may well make some aioli today.
Your captcha has tiny, grainy images by the way.
Cute! Easy! They yowled! Glad Rex did not fall victim to altitude sickness in Colorado; welcome back.
ReplyDeleteI found it fairly easy, but interesting. Since I wasn't aware of rawr or ROWR, I just accepted it. Hands up for figuring either TOILE or mOIrE. I found 28A rather cruel, since it was used during WWII. Is Gloria a HIPPO, or the voice-over's name?
ReplyDeleteOn a bus returning from Berlin to the ship, so on the phone. Fat finger gave me a typo, but I had it.
ReplyDelete@davidm, I might have a way to salvage your enjoyment of the puzzle with respect to "APES". The clue is plural
ReplyDelete"Humans' closest relativeS". So, collectively the apes are our closest relativeS with the chimpanzee being THE closest. Does that work?
I had "let me" instead of "lemme" for the longest time. Lemme is a word now? I don't like the clue, which just doesn't suggest slang to me. And rowr? Google says it exists, but it held me up for a long time, since I was sure it could not be right. Otherwise, I enjoyed this one.
ReplyDelete35 down is WAS HAD taken for a ride. Works well.
ReplyDeleteI questioned 37 down was ROWR I don't understand it at all.
Three comments: 1. Hate "ROWR" 2. "Was had" works but is ugly. 3. SRO = Standing Room Only.
ReplyDeleteLots of creative, clues and answers! 👍🏽😎🧩😎👍🏽
ReplyDeleteNeeded the easy theme to get them. Balance!
@OffThwGrid, thanks, I did think of that, but no, it doesn't work for me. Since we are apes, we can't be our own closest relatives. I get what you're saying, but I don't like the Times making things vague and potentially confusing people. Since I was an editor at the New York Times for eighteen years, I'm very painstaking, particularly about Times content. Also, I made a mistake earlier; I meant to write APSE and not ASPE. See? Painstaking!
ReplyDelete@Joe, I'd forgotten about that flick. I remember it as being hilarious. Thanks for the memories. :)
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this one, and thought the theme answers were all pretty good. ROWR is the only way I've seen it; never RAWR. Finally and enjoyable Sunday!
ReplyDelete@davidm - I’m a member of the Z family. My closet relatives are Z’s, too.
ReplyDeleteI’ll ask again, is there such a thing as misspelling onomatopoetic words? As for @David’s claim of “patriarchal,” Huh? News flash, nothing inherently patriarchal about sexual desire.
ROWR???
ReplyDeleteLate afternoon driveby just to let everyone know I was here. I thought ROWR was from Claudia Cardinale in "The Pink Panther," fwiw. Anyway, as Z says, it's just a phonic representation of a sound -- not even a word, really. So no problem for me.
ReplyDeleteMau was a gimme, as I have two Egyptian Maus. Beautiful cats!
ReplyDeleteSRO=standing room only
ReplyDeleteWelcome back Rex! I loved this puzzle. Sure, it wasn't terrifically challenging, but for me, the most important thing for a Sunday (especially a summer Sunday) is that it be fun, and I thought this one was. I was amused by much of the cluing, "pops up in a flash" and "how balloons are priced" in particular.
ReplyDeleteSo, if it’s not “technically correct” and you feel you have to apologize, why bungle it up it in the first place and then draw attention to it?
ReplyDeleteSorry your vacation was “extended” by a day. Better if it was continued by another year or so. Maybe more.
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ReplyDeleteGotta admit, the reason for the removal is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteLongtime readers of this blog know that SRO = Sold Right Out, and nothing else
ReplyDeleteHad "IS THIS A BAD TIMEX" for the first themer, so it too a while for me to figure out that they all ended in Rs.
Despite that, an average Sunday = easy and not particularly entertaining.
Hated the clue for SETS.
Surprised ROWR was permitted. I don't see an easy fix, though.
@Runs
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's because you gave away two answers to tomorrow's puzzle.
ROWR is wridiculous.
ReplyDeleteBut… Rex says nothing about it? No complaint? Did I miss something?
It's a wonder what a vacation can do.
I am going with the overall consensus. Easy but fun. The one thing that kept tripping me up was the use of past tense. I usually prefill the -ed in past tense clues and that was not a good idea for this puzzle. WASH AD also gave me a bit to finally “see”.
ReplyDeleteYou were in Boulder and didn't say hi? Bummer.
ReplyDelete:-)
Always last to the party. So glad Rex is back, but love the guest bloggers. Had a lot of fun practicing RAWR - new to me. Montreal in two weeks? Me too - Rogers Cup. Still nursing broken heart over Fed losing the historic final at W. A la prochaine.
ReplyDeleteROWR should have been clued as "Where to find the 18th seat from the stage, usually."
ReplyDeleteSRO = Standing Room Only
ReplyDeleteSo many times I see OFC putting down theme answers: I expect [them] to "kill" every time; not enough wackiness, etc. I wonder just what would "kill" him? This stuff is so subjective, criticism like that is hard to support. I found nothing lacking in any of today's. They did their advertised job; what else do you want? In particular, WATCHYOURTONER I thought was excellent. Have I heard that (-R, of course) from a parent to a kid? You betcha. Other delightfully in-the-language entries: THATSIT! and OHGROWUP! More of this, please, and less INAPT and other words that no one ever uses.
ReplyDeletePretty clean fill, as 21x21s go, and another welcome offering from the distaff side. Are more of these getting published just lately? Does WS actually LISTEN?? We can hope. DOD goes to EVA Mendes; no explanation necessary. Did it in about 7 Rexes, so there was some resistance. Birdie.
GIMME VALUE, DEERE
ReplyDeleteOHGROWUP, WATCHYOURTONER THAT'SIT for THE OLE perks,
ETHER one WORKSFROMHOMER is THRUST in with young TURKs.
--- RENEE ROGET
So, let's see:
ReplyDeleteA Sunday puzzle that is not too hard. Check.
Solid set of themers that are consistently risible. Check.
High-quality fill with excellent downs. Check.
Thoughtful cluing. Check.
There was a lot to like in this puzzle, and like it I did.
I asked my cat and he agreed that ROWR is the correct spelling.
My kitty Lambo likes to ROWR in places in the house where he can find an echo. The movie/play didn't lie - they know!
ReplyDeleteDiana, Lady-in-Waiting and liking this puzzle's TONER
Nice Sunday puzzle. Solid theme, solid clues, solid answers, and a decent challenge. For her first Sunday puzzle I'd say our lady constructor nailed it.
ReplyDeleteVery easy and lacks sparkle. No imagination.
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