Fancy one-handed basketball shot / MON 10-6-25 / Cat's little pink paws, cutesily / Skaters who do lifts and twizzles / Ralph who ran for president four times / Whoopi's role in 1985's "The Color Purple" / Sun phenomenon that can cause radio blackouts / Popular brand of hiking sandals
Monday, October 6, 2025
Constructor: Hannah Binney
Relative difficulty: Easy (solved Downs-only)
Theme answers:
- FINGER ROLL (17A: Fancy one-handed basketball shot)
- ARM CANDY (25A: Good-looking companion on the red carpet, say)
- KNUCKLE SANDWICH (36A: Punch in the mouth, slangily)
- TOE BEANS (47A: Cat's little pink paws, cutesily)
A twizzle is "a multirotational, one-foot turn that moves across the ice" in the sport of figure skating. First performed by David Grant in 1990, the International Skating Union (ISU) defines a twizzle as "a traveling turn on one foot with one or more rotations which is quickly rotated with a continuous (uninterrupted) action". It is most often performed in ice dance, although single skaters and pair skaters also perform the element. Twizzles have been called "the quads of ice dance" because like quadruple jumps in other disciplines, twizzles are risky and technically demanding.
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[George "The Iceman" Gervin] |
[Dutchess and Gabby eying the PEOPLE FOOD] |
I had one initial error today. I wrote in "DON'T STAND" (?) instead of "DON'T GET UP" (3D: "Stay seated"). I got out of that one when I ended up with SENE at 23A, which is obviously not a thing. At first I thought maybe EPIC was wrong (24D: "Beowulf" or the "Iliad"), but then I decided STAND was wrong, and GET UP slid right into its place. I didn't make a mistake with WENT, but I balked at it and refused to write it in because the clue seemed off (39D: Left the area). I mean ... [Left] would do just as well. What's this "the area" stuff?? It adds nothing. That's a better clue for, say, WENT AWAY, not just WENT. So as I say, I just left it, and ended up finishing with it, which is why it's highlighted in today's answer grid (above) (the highlighted answer is almost always the very last thing I entered in the grid—I just leave the cursor where it is, take a screenshot, and that's that).
[10D: Music genre for Bob Marley]
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- 31A: Whoopi's role in 1985's "The Color Purple" (CELIE) — this seems hard for a Monday. I never saw it, as it's an Across answer. I think I would've remembered the name, but I'm not sure. It's funny (-ish) that CELIE is the second Whoopi role I can think of that appears from time to time in crosswords. The other is ODA Mae Brown, the character she played in Ghost (for which she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar) (ODA is also old school crosswordese, most often clued as [Harem room] or [Seraglio section]). CELIE has now appeared in the NYTXW 14 times, all of them with a Color Purple-related clue.
- 33D: Secret compartment, informally (HIDEY HOLE) — one of a very nice set of four long Downs today. Here's Chippy, our resident (front porch) chipmunk, in his HIDEY HOLE (of sorts):
- 43A: Popular brand of hiking sandals (TEVA) — the very phrase "hiking sandals" sounds like an oxymoron to me, but as someone who has developed toe (bean) blisters lately due to semi-dramatic increase in walking, I may have to look into some free-toe alternative to normal footwear. Or else just tape my toes. Or get a shoe with a wider toe box. Or just lie around on the couch watching movies and stop walking altogether. Somehow running (which I also do) has never given me blisters, but walking ... bah. I feel betrayed by walking, honestly.
Thanks to Rafa and Eli for filling in for me while I recovered from facial surgery that was way more ... involved (and gruesome) than I thought it would be. Basal cell carcinoma on the nose ... I've had better times at the doctor! Anyway, I get to wear a nose bandage for a couple weeks, so I'm gonna get a fedora and a suit and pretend I'm Jake Gittes from Chinatown. I'm sure that reference will go over Big with my students.
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66 comments:
Rex pretty much nailed it - cute theme - apt revealer and well filled for the most part. Liked the KNUCKLE SANDWICH front and center.
THE THE
I am not a cat person so TOE BEANS was lost one me. Needed crosses for CELIE and EDNA. Liked DONT GET UP and APPLES.
ECHO
Enjoyable Monday morning solve. Good luck with the healing Rex.
RISE To Me
Will remember this puzzle and Rex’s blog forever for introducing me to TOEBEANS. Had never heard the expression before. TOEBEANS of the world, unite!
Nice, comfortable Monday, and a relief from an impossible Sunday. Our cat, J.J., doesn't get (or want) people food, either, but at 18-1/2 pounds, he obviously doesn't need it. Never heard of TOEBEANS, but J.J. must have them.
Hope you recover well, Rex!
Pretty standard Monday fare, with a theme that at least solicits a “That’s interesting “ (if you’re not a dog or cat person).
There are some answers like SETI, CELIE, TEVA and EDNA to give the Monday newcomers a little taste of what the NYT experience is like.
The highlight of this grid for me was getting to reminisce about the FINGER ROLL, which unfortunately has become a rarity these days. I remember watching Wilt Chamberlain (who pretty much invented it), along with Dr. J, Connie Hawkins, and of course George Gervin, who adopted it as his signature shot. Good stuff.
Nicely done theme, but maybe bad form to have BONES, OUTIE, and KNEES in there?
Known only from crosswords: EDIE, TOE BEANS. Not known at all: CARREL, CELIE.
A very smooth Downs-only solve. I got the theme after FINGER ROLL and KNUCKLE SANDWICH, so that helped. Also, the long Downs were easy (I also tried DON'T STAND, but NENE is NENE and NT- is nonsense unless it's NTH).
I only knew about EYE candy and EAR candy, which would've fit the theme just fine, until a recent Stumper taught me that ARM CANDY is also a thing.
You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat. Huh? You know what happens to nosy fellows? Huh? No? Wanna guess? Huh? No? Okay. They lose their noses Next time you lose the whole thing. Cut it off and feed it to my goldfish.
Having grown up with dogs rather than cats, I actually learned TOEBEANS in the NYT crossword—maybe it was about a year ago that it showed up? Rex gratified us with a photo then as well, so I knew we had that to look forward to again when I saw the answer.
Delightful theme with fun answers and a both-words revealer relatively junk free. And TEVAs are a staple for me—for hiking, yes…and then I also have leather ones that I can wear with dresses when I teach. I’m a stickler for comfortable footwear.
This was one rich theme.
Rich in wordplay. Each theme answer had it – body-part/food phrases, a language quirk that was a revelation to me. The revealer landed perfectly and added yet another wordplay layer.
Rich in theme answer. Every one of them colorful and lively, including the revealer. And fresh – FINGER ROLL, PEOPLE FOOD, and TOE BEANS are NYT answer debuts.
The richness spread to the four non-theme longs, each gleaming – DON’T GET UP, ICE DANCERS, SOLAR FLARE, and HIDEY HOLE.
To all this, add cat and dog references, and I, who adore both, was utterly charmed.
I liked the theme echoes in answers from which body part/food phrases can be made, albeit in reverse order: BEER belly and EGGhead. And I, who inexplicably get a kick out of such things, loved that the constructor’s name is a six-letter palindrome.
Your puzzle, Hannah, shimmered with quality, and gave me a stellar outing. Thank you!
My five favorite original clues from last week
(in order of appearance):
1. Soldier who can stand at attention indefinitely (2)(3)
2. What comes before we go? (4)
3. One skilled at withholding details (3)(6)
4. Service to foster parents? (5)(4)
5. Focus of an airplane battle, maybe (7)
GI JOE
AWAY
TAX LAWYER
ELDER CARE
ARMREST
My favorite encore clues from last week:
[Pin number?] (3)
[Legendary rock singer?] (7)
TEN
LORELEI
Hey All !
Neat Theme. Agree Themer was spot on.
Yikes, Rex! I have a friend who had to get a cancerous growth taken out of his nose. Scary stuff. But, the amazing human-body heals itself, and doesn't look like much has been done. Good luck on your recovery.
Had TOE BEAdS first, before grokking Theme, I am not a pet person, so the BEANS weren't front and center in the ole brain. It's funny, because I like kittens, but not a particular fan of grown up cats. If there was a breed that stayed looking like a kitten it's whole life ...
CARREL a new one here. Thought it was wrong somehow, but the crossers checked out. TEVA also new. Chuckled at Rex's questioning hiking sandals. You need boots, man, unless you're "hiking" on the beach. TEVO I've heard of. But an ICE DoNCER isn't anything.
Too early for a BEER, I'll just drink my coffee.
Have a great Monday!
Four F's
RooMonster
DarrinV
TOEBEANS also new to me, but very cute. This was a fun puzzle that made me remember fondly our two dags, now in doggy heaven, who naturally wanted people food whenever possible, especially our golden retriever, Tucker. Tuck once grabbed a whole loaf of freshly baked bread off the kitchen counter, ate a lot of it, and left evidence of his crime pretty much everywhere.
Easy to Medium, I guess, hard to tell. Having finished, and having stared dumbly at the revealer PEOPLE FOOD (because I don't think of FINGERs or ARMs or KNUCKLEs or TOEs as "people"), I was glad to have Rex's further revealer. Parts of "people". Why yes, I suppose you could put it that way. Parts of gorillas, too, and other animals. But even if we restrict ourselves to homo sapiens, "people"... I dunno, it still seems like a very odd choice of word, if not completely inapt. A kind of category error, thinking of "people" as a biological term. Now if the answers were like "Danish pastry" or "Irish stew" or things along those lines -- that would make more sense. The Danes and the Irish: those are peoples.
Anyway... the puzzle didn't quite gladden my heart in the way it did Rex. It sounds like he could use a little gladdening (hope you heal quickly and well, Rex, and welcome back). It was mostly meh for me. I didn't know FINGER ROLL, nor did I know TOE BEANS even though we've owned cats. I did like HIDEY HOLE, and SOLAR FLARE -- those had flair. KNUCKLE SANDWICH: what a throwback. I wonder how many younger people know the expression. Words that might be heard soon after "Whaddaya, some kind of wise guy?" I don't know what old movie would best be summoned to recreate that vibe -- here I have to defer to other more knowledeable PEOPLE.
Be well, everyone.
Wishing you a speedy, uncomplicated, and complete recovery!
Rex- use the toe tape! I get hot spots on my toe beans (toes adjacent to pinky toes) from walking 3-4 miles each day and I keep them taped pretty much all the time.
Another reverse themer could be "pork butt". Anyway, I use a lot of elbow grease when I make these people foods. Speaking of which, what is ACORN doing out there by itself when the themers could have included "foot corn"? And HONEY? HONEY Bun could work in reverse.
That tomato smells divine. Is that a Beefsteak? No, that's AROMA.
I loved this puzzle. Absolutely scrumptious. Thanks, Hannah Binney.
To me, a twizzle (or twizzle stick) is something I strir my cocktail with.
Never heard, used or sat in or at a Carrel. Monday easy otherwise
Easy Monday with lots of Monday-level cluing, and the only WOE was CELIE. Saw the theme as a body part followed by a food but couldn't guess the revealer, as PEOPLEFOOD has never been a term we've used in our over fifty years as serving as staff for our cats. Re OFL's tale of his cats and treats --our Very Old Cat Theo (21 next week) used to love his treats and was the only cat we've ever had who would do tricks--lift his paw as if to shake hands when we said "paw" and best of all, would actually roll over when asked to do so. He got lots of treats for that back in the day but seems to have forgotten all about it now. Also his digestive system no longer accepts treats as it once did. So it goes.
Just about a perfect Mondecito, HB. Good themers, apt revealer and a nice sprinkling of fun fill. May your cats find a Handy Belly to snooze in, and thanks for all the fun.
Just me? Cross of NENE and SETI was definitely not Monday-ish.
Weird clue/answer combo on EUROS...the currency is the Euro (no s), just like US currency is the dollar (not "dollars"). "Euro" is also officially plural in English, even though "Euros" is colloquial.
I solved in 9 minutes. Nice way to start the week - Thank you, Hanna :)
Rex - loved your stories of Ida & Alfie. I've only had dogs & they all loved to eat - any & all food :)
Thanks for sharing your pic with Elaine
""I know you" your response "uh ... I don't think so" & hope you heal quickly.
I would argue that a clue of just “left” take it out of Monday easy and into maybe Wednesday territory.
Didn't get to post yesterday, so I apologize for this "Blast From the Past" -- but if anyone listens to the classic intro to the old "Lone Ranger" TV show, you'll definitely hear Fred Foy intoning the immortal words, ". . . A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty Hi-Yo Silver!" Unmistakable.
Kind of a macabre revealer, if we are to read it meaning our FINGERs and KNUCKLEs are the FOOD our dogs yearn for. But we are drawing semi-near to Hallowe'en, so OK.
I was sorta happy to see NENE again, seems like it's been a while. And I liked the joint appearance of EDNA and EDIE. I don't much like thinking of women as ARM CANDY, but it goes well in the puzzle. And there's both GET UP and RISE, GO IN and WENT. And as soon as I finish here I'm going to shower, dress, and put on a pair of TEVAs because they're so much easier to walk in than my lace-up shoes.
I'm not sure I got one thing right. On a Monday, you probably get stranded on ISLES (although the plural seems odd) and give your teacher APPLES; but my first thought was to be stranded on an ISLEt and give the teacher an APPLEt for our high-tech classroom.
Rats, I forgot to check if I was signed in. If you see some witty anonymous remarks about how it might have been ISLET/APPLET, that was I.
Apropos of today's wonderful 59A, here's one of my favorite "Peanuts" strips of all time. (You may have to click on the link once and then a second time to enlarge it.)
Peanuts strip
Both are standard xwordese and have appeared recently.
I posted an earlier comment as anonymous, I'll go back and tag it once it shows up.
A carrel is a desk with some shelves inside the stacks of a research library. If you convince the powers-that-be that you are a legitimate scholar (or, if it's a university library, if you are a faculty member or grad student) you can get one assigned to you, check out books to your carrel, and keep them there until someone else needs them. It gives you a quiet place to work, and relieves you of the task of having to get the books again every day.
I still remember my first pair of TEVAS--I was in an REI store, and asked to try them on; the clerk told me the price (about twice what everything else cost) and said I shouldn't try them unless I was willing to pay that much, because I would definitely want to buy them once I tried them. She was right. But I wouldn't use them for any but very light hiking, because my toes would get banged up by the rocks. OTOH, they're brilliant for any walking where you will get wet, because they function as well wet as dry.
Nut 'for a squirrel' is kind of silly--I guess it rules out coconut, but still leaves a lot. Any squirrel would much rather have a walnut than an ACORN, it's just that the acorns are lying about everywhere.
I had that same reaction to EUROS.
Ha ha, cute!
Dogs eatin people parts. Suitably schlocky. Like.
staff weeject pick: Gotta say yep to YEP.
fave moo-cow eazy-E MonPuz clue: {Popular brand of hiking sandals} = TEVA ... Not!
Actually, fave moo-cow clue was: {Fruit left on teachers' desks, perhaps} = APPLES.
fave stuff included: DONTGETUP. HIDEYHOLE. Findin out that THE beat out A for most common word. Learnin what TOEBEANS are.
Thanx for the nail-biter MonPuz, Ms. Binney darlin. Mighty cool puztheme. Makes a neat diner menu for doggies.
Masked & Anonymo2Us
... a day off from travel recaps ...
"Innagrams" - 7x7 12 min. themed runt puzzle:
**gruntz**
M&A
p.s. Get all better real soon, RexNose. And, nice shirt.
Good thing I could get SETI from the crosses, and good thing I know NENE from having done so many puzzles. I agree with others that those crosses did not seem Mondayish. BUT, I still thought the puzzle was lots of fun—warm and fuzzy and a nice way to start off the week! So, thank you, Hannah.
We are cat (and dog) peeps and neither of us have ever heard of toebeans, do our dogs have toe nuts?
Easy. No WOEs and no cost erasures, although I needed some crosses to remember CELIE and I had some trouble spelling CARREL.
Smooth grid, solid theme, some fine long downs, liked it.
Croce Solvers - Croce’s Freestyle #1050 was pretty easy for a Croce…less than 1.5X a tough NTY Saturday for me. Good luck!
Silicone toe protectors may help with the blisters. I hope you heal quickly from you surgery.
Ick. Why was this comment published?
burtonkd - But aren't Mondays supposedly suitable for beginners who aren't yet familiar with crosswordese?
Hmm...I think the words in the answers that refer to people food are ROLL/CANDY/SANDWICH/BEANS.
I got the food part of the theme but failed to notice that the starts of the theme answers were people parts, oops.
CELIa gave me a Monday DNF because I failed to check the down clues. I'm pretty sure I would have changed 22D to ACTED if I had read the clue. Oops.
Watching the coordination of the skating pair in the twizzles video had me wondering if there had ever been a chance I could do something so choreographed. I'm thinking no. I pride myself on not running into anyone when running a 5K. And missing potholes. Not quite up to ice dancing standards.
I love Rex's photo of Chippy (all chipmunks are named Chippy, right?) Our resident Chippys are pretty blase about our presence. They'll run up the downspout if they're near one but if they're just out on the patio they'll merely saunter away or scamper under the deck stairs. No true fear of the human, similar to the myriad gray squirrels in the yard.
Thanks, Hannah Binney, nice Monday puzzle.
Also had DONTSTAND in my Downs Only solve, although I strangely had DONTARISE first. 😆 In checking at the end, CELIE was the only thing that made me carefully relook at the downs.
Same here. Never heard that term before.
I meant this in response to Nancy's Peanut cartoon...
What a good puzzle - "both-word" theme phrases can't be all that easy to come up with in any case, and these five were all so colorful! It seemed like a coon's age since I'd seen KNUCKLE SANDWICH, and I got curious about when its first use might have been. It seems as though it might have been in sports writing of the 1940s".
@Rex, great shot of your Chippy! Our Chippy lives in a flagstone wall, and I only see him in as a scampering blur. Happy healing!
Relax, it's a reference to Chinatown, which Rex mentioned
@Rex: I've had 5 bouts with Mohs surgery on my face over the past several years, so I know what you're going through.
To every light-skinned person here: Stay out of the sun. Use SPF 50+ sunblock. Wear a broad-brimmed hat. I've purchased several SPF 50+ shirts. They're comfortable and keep the evil sun off your body.
@Roomonster Altho I personally agree "you need boots" I've known many people who hiked in the mountains around here (in Tevas.
Been doing NYT xwords since the 80's and never saw " carrel".
My word for the day.
Wishing Rex quick healing.
I hike in TEVAs! Sometimes my middle-aged feet are like, "ma'am, we beg you to please not" but mostly they're fine. They are also an Israeli company, so if you don't want to give them your money, I hear Keens are a good alternative.
Ehe... I also like to toss treats to my two cats. One does a casual trot. The other starts running as soon as I do a forward hand motion. Sometimes, she steps on the treat while it's moving and eats it in one fluid motion. I call it the stomp and chomp. She loves food, including PEOPLE FOOD.
Great puzzle and write-up, thanks!
Walter White with bandage on nose (Breaking Bad).
Ha! That's great, thanks for sharing.
What fun, including, no, especially OFL’s cat stories. My cat sits in front of “her drawer” in my tiny house where the jumbo sized box of Greenies lives. Also the Tiki Stix wet treats (the only easy way I have found to medicate her). But the Greenies are her crack - honestly. She’s old so we don’t “play Treats” any more, but it was hilarious fun when she and her now departed “shelter sister” were younger.
But I swear she can count to 4. That’s a serving and she can have 4 servings per day. If I try to fool her, she gobbles up 2 or three and then gives me the full “eyebrow stare” until I fork over the proper number. When she has had 4, she waltzes over to the window of choice shaking her head, satisfied that once again she has maintained order in her domain. Her speech bubble clearly says, “Does she really think I’m off my game?” My Pip has pancreatitis so we have some pretty unpleasant dietary restrictions.
She has a wide variety of TOE BEANS, and she’s calico with a dash of tabby (her tail looks like she stole it from a neighborhood raccoon). Her beans are all multicolored - and as are Alfi’s, - adorably cute.
Speaking of adorably cute, what a fabulous reveal today! Like @Rex, I thought maybe the theme reveal might be something like “give me a hand,” at least until the TOE BEANS. At that point, I got very excited to see, and was not disappointed.
Extremely easy Monday, but very expertly crafted. I look forward to more artful delight from Hannah Binney. I’m done now, which means that when I start to RISE from my comfy recliner, it’s time for Pip to hop down from my lap and get to some serious begging.
Yeah, ROLL, CANDY, SANDWICH and BEANS are also unclear on how FINGER, ARM, KNUCKLE and TOE fit in the theme pattern. Rex has them as co-equal theme elements in his explanation "familiar phrases made out of body parts (i.e. parts of 'PEOPLE') and food".
Lets see, where was I? Oh, I also don't see how the body parts fit the theme. They aren't synonymous with PEOPLE. And there is some combination of keystrokes that will get your comment published prematurely without clicking on the "Publish" button. Wish I knew what those were.
I'm a little surprised that Rex has only been recognized once. I would assume that as a professor, he gets recognized by old students from time to time (but maybe he's not counting that and only counting "Rex Parker" recognitions). Even putting that aside, I would have thought that this blog would have enough cumulative readership that it would happen. But maybe not. In the pre-internet days, I was on Jeopardy for three days, and I didn't get recognized once.
Solving down clues only was pretty straightforward, but led me to end with an error: CARRAL crossing GENA, which seemed perfectly obvious.
Rex: I cat-sit for a friend while he's in Mexico or Costa Rica or whatever, and his instructions are to put two Greenies in the plastic roly-poly thing and put it on the floor. Maggie (the cat) knows she has to repeatedly bat it so it wobbles back and forth, until eventually a Greenie will pop out one of the holes. (This is so she gets some mental and physical exercise; she's like 20 years old). But she never really gets into it, and I will come by an hour later to find she's only gotten one Greenie. So I will pick it up and rattle it loudly, then put it back down, so she gets the other one.
(BTW I wrote the above in the present tense, however Maggie passed away in March and I will miss our times together. RIP, missy.)
It’s a quote from the movie Chinatown, referenced by Rex in his comments.
YEP, easy, and fun. Got TOE BEAN right off owing only to having seen it once before in a NYTXW, when I’d never heard the phrase. Thought it was the bees knees then, and so remembered it.
@Rex – My toes need a comfy toe box too. Early this year a saleswoman at an independent local outdoors store told me about Topo Ultraventure 4, which she used to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. They’ve got a roomy toe box, they’re like walking on a cloud, and they are light and flexible with a good lug sole. At the end of the day when PCT hikers gathered to review their day, she got some good-natured ribbing from those wearing heavy hiking shoes but her feet were the ones that didn’t hurt each night. It’s almost all I wear now.
My two cats also get second breakfast! And like LOTR, elevenses, which is their treats time, even though the actual timing of this varies, widely dependent on feline request.
or get anti-blister socks - made a huge difference for me
It's the dialog from Chinatown that precedes the photo from Chinatown that Rex posted. Great great movie
@Anon 11:34 AM. Thanks. I understood that the second halves of the theme answers were the FOOD parts, but that's not what I was pointing at.
This probably isn't worth going over again if it wasn't clear the first time -- the vast majority of comments here are throwaway comments anyway, written in the moment as stuff occurs to people, and then disappearing promptly down the memory hole. My own comments are no exception! But, FWIW, I just thought "PEOPLE parts" -- not human body parts but people parts -- sounds off, and that the revealer therefore misses slightly. (Rex's explanation can't be improved upon; it's just what the puzzle was offering up to us.)
If for example we substituted the word "folks" for "people", and the quote in the famous movie were "Soylent Green is Folks!", then that might give an idea of how the whole thing strikes my ear as odd, is all. Probably it's just me, or people who have similarly weird brains.
Rex or if not boots, maybe try toe socks? Brand is Injinji and they are good for not developing toe blisters. There are lots of different ones. Liners, thick, lightweight, etc. Also good for wearing with sandals.
Get well soon.
Like Injinji socks! Work great
No te levantes.
I couldn't do yesterday's puzzle and today I set a Monday record. Monday records are pretty hard to beat as it's usually over before you've begun, but it feels like justice after the sad state of affairs I muddled through yesterday. The biggest slowdown was if it's a FROG or a TOAD.
I hope your recovery is fast and easy 🦖. Aquaphor is the key. Use it like you use whipped cream on Valentines day. I've had so many basal cell surgeries my face looks like a post war roadmap of Germany. But you haven't really lived until you have melanoma surgery on the top of your scalp and your begging the doctor for more vicodin like a junky on DTs. Actually, the doctors were wonderful, but it's the pharmacists who won't let go of the stuff unless you give them your first born child. Between the skin cancer surgeries, three kidney stones, and two specific girlfriends in college, I've already got a pretty good idea what Hell is going to be like for me.
I don't think any students have left apples on teachers' desks in about 150 years.
❤️ ARM CANDY. KNUCKLE SANDWICH.
😩 BADE.
People: 8
Places: 1
Products: 5
Partials: 5
Foreignisms: 0
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Gary's Grid Gunk Gauge: 19 of 76 (25%)
Funny Factor: 1 🤨
Tee-Hee: Ew ... OUTIE.
Uniclues:
1 How your DNA makes it look like you're descended from royalty.
2 To be asked by everyone you meet if you've climbed Everest.
3 Prepares to be drunk in paradise.
4 Steaks in ova saga.
5 When Bob Marley donned a pink boa.
6 Chipmunk cheeks.
7 Frequent phrase from a middle school counselor explaining the importance of deodorant.
1 GENE ARM CANDY
2 NEPALI FATE
3 SEES ISLE'S BEER
4 EGG EPIC T-BONES
5 REGGAE WENT FAB
6 ACORN HIDEY-HOLE
7 HONEY ... THE ODOR
My Fascinating Crossword Uniclue Keepsake from Two Years ago: Booooooor-ing. OPERA AT A GLANCE.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's a quote from Chinatown
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