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Rolled out unannounced? / TUE 9-1-26 / Noted magnate on the Titanic / Highest-grossing moviei of the 1970s / Indigo dye / Writer ___ Rogers St. Johns / Like un homme with a Napoleon complex / Fidget spinners and Labubu dolls, for two / Andy Taylor's boy on old TV / "Ism" that might result from a schism
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Constructor: Paul Hudes and Margot Kohn
Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium
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| [5D: Highest-grossing movie of the 1970s] |
THEME: on the web... — familiar phrases are clued as if they were websites (the clues are actual URLs)
Theme answers:
- BURIAL SITE (17A: https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil?)
- SAUSAGE LINK (26A: https://www.hot-dog.org?)
- HOME ADDRESS (41A: https://www.zillow.com?)
- SENATE PAGE (54A: https://www.congress.gov?)
Labubu (/lɑːˈbuːbu/ lah-BOO-boo; Chinese: 拉布布; pinyin: Lābùbù) is a line of collectible plush toys created by Hong Kong illustrator Kasing Lung. The series features zoomorphic elves with exaggerated facial expressions, of which the central figure is Labubu, a monster with sharp teeth, large ears and a scruffy appearance.The toys are produced and sold exclusively by the China-based retailer Pop Mart, which primarily releases Labubu figures in sealed "blind box" packaging that conceals the specific character inside. Over time, the series expanded to include different versions of Labubu and other related figures, often released in limited runs or as part of themed sets.
Labubu toys became especially popular in 2024 across East and Southeast Asia, becoming one of Pop Mart's signature characters and a central figure in the global blind box collecting trend. The character has also inspired collaborations with fashion brands and limited-edition art figures. Academic research has examined consumer behavior surrounding the Labubu series, particularly in relation to scarcity-based marketing strategies. [...]
In 2025, New York magazine's Liza Corsillo wrote that the "toy's appeal is fueled by a hard-to-explain cuteness—they're kind of ugly, but huggable, with a devilish grin—as well as surprise and scarcity." Corsillo also wrote that, like Jellycat, Labubus blur "the line between toys and fashion". [...] In July 2025, authorities in Iraq's Kurdistan Region announced they had banned the sale of the doll due to claims that they resulted in behavioral problems in children. Authorities also seized at least 4,000 dolls in the Erbil area, following media reports of the dolls also containing 'demonic spirits'. (wikipedia)
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| [in case you're wondering what the good folks at hot-dog dot org get up to...] |
The fill drifts into some rickety and ye olden territory at times, though. You brought back ANIL and ADELA back from the dead in the same puzzle? (51D: Indigo dye / 61A: Writer ___ Rogers St. Johns). You can see how these once-popular answers ("popular" because constructors did not have software to help make them go away) have faded dramatically in prevalence over time:
Bullets:
- 29A: Risky bets (FLIERS) — I use this term all the time, but mostly when I decide to try something (often food, or maybe a record) that I've never tried or possibly even heard of before ... which I guess is a form of "risky bet."
- 26D: Amy Poehler's onetime partner on "Weekend Update" (SETH MEYERS) — kind of a throwback clue, considering he's got his own late night show now and has for ... a while (since 2014, wow, longer than I thought).
- 40D: Like un homme with a Napoleon complex (PETIT) — this was weird. I guess you had to go to French because PETIT is a word in English only in legal contexts. PETITE is a word, obviously, but it's got that "E" and applies almost exclusively to girls and women. In French, "PETIT" just means "small" (masc.), so a man can be PETIT there. I am a tall man myself, so whatever complex I have, this ain't it, but I do have to say "Napoleon complex" seems like a "derogatory social stereotype" (wikipedia's words), a way of mocking guys for being short, perhaps for doing the very same (obnoxious) things that taller men do all the time. If you know a number of short guys who are "overly aggressive or domineering," consider how many average-sized and tall guys you know who behave exactly the same way. You can criticize a short man for various shortcomings and leave his shortness out of it (see also fat people / fatness—even more so).
That's all for today. See you next time.
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75 comments:
Easy-Medium. Decent for a Tuesday.
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One overwrite, my 3D camping covers were TentS before they were TARPS.
Two WOEs:
I didn't know that FLIERS are risky bets (29A).
Writer ADELA Rogers St. Johns at 61A.
Cute puns I guess - SAUSAGE LINK elicited a chuckle but I thought congress was going to be something sexual.
Little Old Lady From PASADENA
Overall fill works well - the big guy covers most of it. I don’t love the full proper name as always so SETH should have been edited better. IN EARNEST, NO SPOILERS, IN SO FAR AS are all top notch. I only know ADELA from the puzzles. The grid forces some short glue but a lot of it gets glazed over due to how easy this was.
Depeche Mode
Not a lot of complexity here but an enjoyable Tuesday morning solve nonetheless.
1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Thanks for the nice write-up this morning, @OFL. I liked the theme, hadn't even noticed the nice variety with .gov, .mil, .com, and .org. Though I prefer non-profits that have somewhat loftier goals than hot-dog.org seems to.... and besides, it's full of puns like "you'll relish the variety of information.... ". : / SAUSAGELINK was by far my favorite.... took me forever to see what that was going to be! TIL that PANTSED is a word. I agree with the junior-high prankster vibe. Nice puzzle, great theme, and if you are going to reset our STARWARS counter, this is the way to do it! Thanks, Paul and Margot!
Very easy. PANTSED surprised and amused me,
I would say a Napolean complex is when someone (a man) feels he has to compensate for being short, so he goes out to show all the big tall men that he’s just as virile and masculine as they are by, for example, teying to conquer the world.
I mostlly enjoyed the puzzle but more in retrospect than while solving. Clever theme.
Yes but *you* are attributing that “need to compensate” to him, on what basis? It’s like the whole dumb thing of saying guys drive big trucks or talk tough etc to “compensate” for small penises. It’s made up and based on Your own prejudices (against short men, against small penises). Guys are assholes because they’re assholes, not for some biological shortcoming.
ADELA/RIGEL was almost a natick for me. i figured L was a safe-enough bet, but i honestly wasn't sure.
i finished in decent time, but some of the fill and cluing here felt unnecessarily tough for a tuesday.
also, @anonymous 6:32am "Guys are assholes because they’re assholes, not for some biological shortcoming." <- ding ding ding
Nope. Napolean complex is mocking someone for their behavior. No one would say Richard Reich has a Napolean complex and he’s practically a little person.
Shortness is a requirement of the Nalolean complex but in of itself not suffiecient.
A very nice early-week puzzle with a theme that provided just enough of an extra crunch to make it interesting while keeping it light-hearted. Once I had the theme, I enjoyed trying to guess the others by thinking of what other URL vocabulary might go with the words. Felt like what a Tuesday is supposed to be.
I appreciated Rex’s thoughts about the Napoleon complex, which I’ve never thought about before. Indeed, if someone is going to try to conquer the world (or be socially aggressive), we can just call that a bad thing without saying, “And on top of that, he’s doing it while being short!” No need to psychoanalyze that the aggression relates to a compensation for the height.
My basic immaturity is showing—got a laugh out of TPED as I unraveled the SE to finish the puzzle. ADELE was an unknown.. I guess PANTSED is in the same category as TPED but did not resonate as much with me. Hand up for TentS before TARPS. Loved SAUSAGELINK and the other internet themers—-a fun and imaginative puzzle that morning.
The Napoleon complex clue rubbed me the wrong way, but I couldn't articulate why. Thank you, Rex, for putting it into words.
This only makes Anonymous’s point. If a short person is domineering, how is that any different from a tall person’s being domineering? Why are you bringing shortness into it? A: easy prejudice. This is like how people who don’t normally make fun of fat people will Absolutely bring fatness into it if they Don’t like someone. Like, the president is an awful human being but mocking his fatness (as so many of you do) is justice dime-store anti-fat prejudice. Easy to make fun of / pathologize short guys. So if you find a short guy overbearing you go after his shortness despite its total irrelevance. You have asserted its relevance because it’s an easy cheap jab. Napoleon complex is not a real thing. Just like Napoleon’s shortness was not a real thing (avg height for his time).
sailed through until the bottom right corner. ADELA and RIGEL are new words to me, and I had NOSIR over NEVER. Tough corner for a Tuesday.
Hey All !
Stickier than usual TuesPuz here. Had to tighten down the ole thinking cap.
Nice to get four different URL things, SITE, LINK, ADDRESS, PAGE.
Kept reading 47D clue as onion, not Orion, thinking what an odd clue that was. Was thinking of the satirical newspaper/website The Onion, and wondering if I was the only one who didn't know about their left-foot star. Like a running gag, or somesuch. Good stuff.
Boy, the XW sure does love its LSD and ACID TRIPS. Maybe why we get so much ASS in the puz, the editors are all on LSD. 😁
Have never TPED, a house, or thankfully haven't had mine TPED. Especially since COVID, what a waste of good TP.
Welp, hope y'all have a great Tuesday!
Three F's
RooMonster
DarrinV
Thanks, Rex, for proving that hot-dog.org exists. Who’d a thunk? But I’m not about to take hot dog advice from a guy with a ketchup bottle in the background.
Terrific idea for a theme. SO clever – connecting actual web addresses punnily with everyday phrases. Smart ideas like this, well executed, will always get published, and bravo to Margot for coming up with it (according to the constructors' notes).
Seemed like a tight theme. How many other words are there for web links and sites, and how many of them can be part of a common phrase?
I liked seeing BRAVE clued as a verb – [Push through] – as it’s almost always clued as an adjective.
My brain enjoyed trying to crack that, as well as trying to crack [Firmly held] for DEEP SET, and [To the degree that] for INSOFAR AS. It also loved trying to crack the theme answers with as few letters as possible, after seeing what the theme was early on.
Impressive debut, Paul and Margot. Keep coming up with ideas like this, and I’ll expect to see you often up the road. I hope so, and thank you for a splendid outing!
Hey, Weird Al, a suggestion for a new song: “I Could Have Pantsed All Night”.
Read an article yesterday that Nicole Kidman routinely pantses Sandra Bullock. (They’re both on the circuit flogging their sequel to Practical Magic. Neither has seen junior high in a thousand years)
Agree. Tough cross for a Tuesday
Found it very easy except for the SE, where I needed trial-and-error. Didn't fully grasp the theme until I was done. Like EasyEd, I had "tents" before TARPS.
PANTSED is crosswordese taken to an "advansted" level. The puzzle was definitely not "enhansted" by its inclusion.
I don't know why, but unlike everyone else, I thought this was VERY tough for a Tuesday- I finished like 70% above my average time.
But in that guy's defence, one of the etiquette rules is not to put ketchup on your hot dog unless you are under 18.
Wonderful solve. I chuckled when I saw Tped and Pantsed , with their clues, in the same puzzle. 🎈🎈🎊🎊
Have to love this theme! I found it tough to think of the last words for each, I needed crosses for every one but SITE. They fall into two camps: LINK and ADDRESS are URLs, while SITE and PAGE are what the URL takes you to. That's a nice balance. For some reason tne NYT solving site was truncating the across clues, so I couldn't actually see the domain names while solving; having 4 different ones is indeed a nice touch.
I liked the RASH person taking FLIERS and ending up with some DENTS in his or her ego; and I liked seeing our old friend OPIE, who has been scarce lately, coming back to take up the EPEE.
And I went down a metaphysical rabbit hole pondering whether STAR WARS should count as a Star Wars reference.
Fine wines can be AGED, but they were fine wines already, or you wouldn't have bothered to age it.
And finally, I have to defend ANIL which is the basis of the entire modern chemical industry.
I thought the puzzle overall was perfect for a Tuesday but I didn’t like the Arlington Cemetery reference. While accurate it seemed flippant to me. It’s more than a burial site and I think another option should have been chosen.
@JJK that's what I understand Napoleon complex to mean too. Someone who is short and compensates for it by their domineering behavior
@Sun Volt, thanks for the Richard Thompson clip. I saw him a couple of years ago at a small church turned small concert venue in Montclair, NJ. Great stuff...
When I am King, my first edict will be “ NO ketchup on tubular meat products”.
Anyone else getting sick of all the sammies and sandos lately?
Very similar solving experience to @Rex's but I found it a bit more challenging than most Tuesdays.
The theme is very, very clever and works really well. SENATEPAGE took me quite awhile as the SE was crunchy as heck for me. The star crossing the writer was a Natick and what should have been a fairly straight forward entry in NEVER just would not come to me quickly. I had *noway*, then changed it to *nosir*...nothing! It was the very cool and very well clued BRAVE that finally fell to get me to NEVER. Then TPED clicked (my least favorite fill of the day) and *finally* PAGE fell into place. That was quite the workout for a Tuesday.
The cute theme made it worth the effort. Like @Rex, I like how it uses real sites all with different domain names, so put me in the camp of "how did they ever come up with that??!!" Color me impressed!
I always brag that I know nothing about the STARWARS universe and get annoyed by that kind of fill, but I share @Rex's reaction that since today's entry goes all in and is so obvious, I was just fine with it and it didn't take away from the solving joy.
There was some long non-themers that I liked very much: INSOFARAS, INEARNEST, and NOSPOILERS.
As a not very tall guy, I very much appreciate @Rex's take on the Napoleon Complex. I don't think I've ever seen it analyzed so beautifully and so spot on, thank you Professor Sharp!
Paul and Margot, I understand this is a debut and it's a great one! Thank you for this and I look forward to seeing more!
I saw that PANTSED must be right, but I couldn't believe it was a real word. I've never heard it. And since RIGEL/ADELA was a Natick for me (and did not feel Tuesday-ish at all), and I couldn't think of TPED, the SE corner did me in.
Love Richard Thompson and have seen him twice, once in a small club in Saratoga and once at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. My favorite of his is "Beeswing."
Oh SV, I was hoping you’d spring for a Game Theory reference (RIP Scott Miller), as “Nine Lives To Rigel Five” was actually how I got that clue this morning…
There's nothing like a good Hot Dog w Sauerkraut and Mustard. Ketchup is strictly for amateurs.
Enjoyable Tuesday. Southeast was kinda tough.
Easiest Tuesday ever.
Congrats on your debut, Margot & Paul :)
Yep. And no pay off. Boo.
It good have been a very fine Tuesday, but for me the SE corner was a real clunker. I wasn’t at all happy with the clues for TPED and BRAVE (cmon Will, I know you can do better than that) and crossing RIGEL with ADELA is a total buzzkill as well. Subpar editing in my opinion.
I loved this!! It was the perfect reward/antidote for making it through the paper and the plethora of depressing messages in my in-box!!
Same issues as many here. TentS before TARPS. Made worse by inexplicably starting with Superman, then going to STARtrek, before getting to STARWARS, doh. Tough in the SE too, made worse by starting with ACIDdRoP. The prank vibe got a little sexual as I considered pulled down PANTiEs, and jumped to PETIT, my goodness, back to the PROM with KATE, LUCY, LEAH, EVE, and ADELA running around. Kept thinking there must be some reveal to tie the themers together, but liked how NOSPOILERS fixed that for me. Perfectly good Tuesday, and appreciate the takes on Napolean complex, being rather tall.
This was a nice way to bring technology (?) (the internet) into the crosswords. Fun and great finds on the phrases ending in online words.
I did have a struggle in the SE. ADELA, I must have seen it before, based on Rex's appearance charts, but might as well not have - no memory. And that weird clue for BRAVE = "Push through". I was checking all the crosses on that one, trying to find a way out of it, but finally hit "check solution" and then had to think about why BRAVE was correct. I get it now, but, vague, very vague.
And RIGEL, how could I have ever mixed you up with Deneb? I'm sorry I temporarily forgot you.
PANTSED, shouldn't it be unPANTSED? And TP-ED is "unannounced"? Weird clue, in my opinion.
But Paul and Margot, I really liked your Tuesday puzzle, thanks!
It surprises the victim too - often a child being bullied (and sexually assaulted)
"Napoleon complex" should not be confused with "complex Napoleon," which is an intricately designed pastry.
I thought the "left foot star" was Daniel Day-Lewis.
Is there anything I can do to keep your dog from eating me? PETIT
I flunked out of high school. What do you recommend? AGED
How does the only Canadian team in MLB appear on the scoreboard? ASTOR
Enjoyed the puzzle. It's good the constructors went with congress.gov. Congress.com is a hard-core pornography site. (No it isn't.)
ROBERT Reich, Had a summer camp near where I grew up.
SE got me. I eventually gave up and revealed all.
Very easy until I hit the SE corner--had DALE for DELL for a while as I missed the clue for EVE entirely, sideways clue for BRAVE, ditto for TPED, and started with ADELE instead of ADELA. Not too hard to sort out though.
My dear mother always explained some people's obnoxious behaviors on their height. "He's short!" she would say. I don't think she ever heard of a Napoleonic complex though. Also, she was about 4'11" and as far from obnoxious as a person could possibly be.,
Thanks to OFL for the picture of a Labubu. Knew of them but not what they looked like.
SPOILER alert, today's SB will not accept ANIL. Nothing new there.
Saw the same article that @Anon 7:54 did about the PANTSing--interesting to see it again already. Very popular in junior high school, especially with gym shorts.
Nice solid Tuesday, PH and MK. Not Particularly Hard but My Kind of appropriate to the day of the week puzz, and thanks for all the fun.
TPing's gonna get more expensive with the WC 😉 ( War w/Canada ) which we will LOOs !!!
Thanks for the laugh!
oof. Easy one star for me. Star Wars, Shakespeare, LSD, and not one, not two, but three Judeo-Christian mythology clues. Get me right out of here. I really need a new decade of crosswords.
@Diane Joan, I felt the same qualms.
Ditto.
@pablo. Was it a camp for short people?
Easy-medium seems right.
No WOEs and TentS before TARPS was it for costly erasures.
Not much junk, fun/punny theme, some fine long downs, liked it.
My spouse puts ketchup on any animal derived food, claiming “It’s a vegetable!” No, it’s a candy.
Vegetable!
Candy!
Vegetable!
Candy!
It’s two - two taste treats in one!
Tubular!
Pretty sure the only time I ever heard this word used was in an episode of Cheers, when the regulars "pantsed Wade Boggs" because they thought he was lying about his identity (a Red Sox player). They were wrong; it was him.
@Andy et al, the website hotdogs.com helps select streaming services to watch sports. Didn't see that coming.
But there's also a website called pictureofhotdog.com, which is exactly what the name suggests. Who knew?
One of the more difficult downs-only solves in recent memory. I don’t know exactly why. But I hardly ever know anything exactly.
One thing I for sure didn’t exactly know was ADELA Rogers St. Johns. I had that corner almost filled, saw ADEL_, and decided it needed an E. Then I looked at 48D. Hmmm, I’m sorta sure Norma is an OPERA and I’m as sure as I have ever been about anything that Tosca is too, though it might also be the name of some frozen filled pasta product. So I went for OPERA. Yeah, sure. ADELA. OK. A bit of faith solving is sometimes necessary.
Thought the theme was great, even before @Rex pointed out the 4 url suffixes. Really nice touch. The long downs were pretty good and the fill was pretty decent. Maybe not RTS, but EPEE and OPIE are normal Tuesday fare. They get a pass.
I complimented the long downs but I have to add a qualification to one of them: 11D IN EARNEST always seems to denote a feigned position. But I’m a skeptic. YMMV.
As usual for Tuesday, I tried to solve down clues only and didn't get there. Example: for 54 across, obviously a theme answer but I can't read the clue, had SENATE-A-E and thought oh!... has to be SENATE RACE! Then when I finally got the theme I was stumped. Had to read the clue, oh: SENATE PAGE. The theme was just fine for a Tuesday.
Not too too many names, but a few. Several 4 letter ones: OPIE LUCY KATE LEAH OMAR. The only total Unknown was ADELA.
I spent Christmas 2010 in Pasadena... liked it! All the bungalows, and then the wonderful Gamble House by Greene & Greene.
I have been PANTSED exactly once. A bunch of us had slept on the front deck; I was about 32, and there was my 16 year old niece and my 5 year old niece. I was wearing only shorts, and when I got up, the 5 year old yanked them right down to the ground. Pretty embarrassing (or "bare assing").
Wait, was @Gary consulted on this puzzle's construction? (TPED; PANTSED; SAUSAGE; RASH 🤣) Or by Rex? (the glorious Labubu riff, vajayjay). As I write this, he hasn't yet weighed in; I'm in anticipation mode.
My wife asked (about the puzzle) "Did an 8th grade boy make this?".
As for PETIT, a trial jury is called a petit jury (as opposed to the more familiar grand jury); but I'm pretty sure Rex prefers the clue as written, notwithstanding its weirdness.
Nice, different puztheme idea. BURIALSITE started it out a bit grimly, but SAUSAGELINK lightened things up nicely.
staff weeject pick: RTS. An NFL position of mystery offerin. Always tricky, until aided by the crossers.
some faves: Subtle STARWARS reference. NOSPOILERS. INEARNEST. ACIDTRIP. PANTSED and its clue. Weird TPED clue.
Thanx for gangin up on us, Ms. Kohn darlin & Mr. Hudes dude. And congratz on yer primo double debut.
Masked & Anonymo3Us
p.s.
Runt puzzle:
**gruntz**
M&A
Malo hasta la médula.
Enjoyable. Love seeing Baby Moses, the original kayaker. There's possibly a link between being lost in the desert and having a noted yachtsman as a leader. When I hand out sheet music, I remind my students it's a recipe, not tablets handed down by Moses. The problem with the joke is people are much better at following recipes than they are at following the ten commandments.
I've never heard the term FLIERS used in that manner. Is it pronounced FLY-ers or FLY-yers?
I've never read Dracula and I don't think I've ever seen a vampire movie, but I did go to Dracula's castle once. It's near a very cute town. The rest of the Romania is not quite so cute. Pele's Castle is the best one I've ever seen.
Gunkometer--
People: 11 {the editors are on fire these days}
Places: 4
Products: 4
Partials: 6
Foreignisms: 2
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Gary's Grid Gunk Gauge: 27 of 74 (36%)
Funny Factor: 2 😕
🔥 Ooh-la-la! 🔥 PANTSED. ACID TRIP. TPED. And I will say for the record the best themer of the bunch is SAUSAGE LINK. But 🦖 rolling out Labubu was ooh-la-la level 2.
Uniclues:
1 Goth girls.
2 Tropical fruit with a black heart (but he's trying to be good).
3 Why the aviators are jetting.
4 Nymph pal pitched a fuss and vamoosed.
5 What the NYTXW guarantees you'll do regularly.
6 The one that's called, "Things we've accomplished by putting country before party."
7 Every damn day according to NYTXW detractors.
8 Flower de-flowered.
1 BURIAL SITE SECT
2 PAPAYA ON PAROLE (~)
3 FLYERS MET LEAR
4 RASH PAN PARTED
5 PLAY AT ACID TRIP
6 RARE SENATE PAGE
7 STAR WARS ERA
8 LOTUS PANTSED
My Fascinating Crossword Uniclue Keepsake from Last Year: What I bring to the woods in addition to my smile. NUDIST CAMP PALL.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
thrilled to see rex rep burial!
same issues
Really enjoyed this Tuesday! Good theme, a few names all gettable. Sweet in many ways. ANIL is still not accepted by spelling bee, astoundingly.
Re Napoleon complex: Putin springs to mind.
Senate page seems sexual to me. Just recall the congressional page sexual exploitation scandal of the early 80's (and Foley in 06). Puzzle was fine. Richard Thompson is great an unsung guitar virtuoso and song writer
About Napoleon complex
The term is aimed at relatively short men who are perceived to be arrogant Of all the crimes of language.( see the hatred spewing out of the Trumpified news outlets oftheUS Government for real horrors) , this is not exactly a major one. . To put it another way , if Trump were short. you know the term would be everywhere. and most of his opponents ( including me) would not be in the least bothered by it.
🙄 You all just keep making the point that it’s a prejudicial term. you’re not using it for the president now but you would if he were short? What? then wtf does the term even mean except “haha you’re short”—why must the short guy be “compensating” for something? Why can’t he just be another bullying asshole like so many other guys? (also, again, Napoleon wasn’t short—actual fake news, popularized by a cartoon)
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Pantsed is definitely a word. As someone said it is at the level of Middle school humor or worse but it exists.
I just realized that your blog name is quite inventive. Take the vowels out
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Diane Joan
When I I got to that first themer , I was very uncomfortable also.
Southside
I think you just didn’t recall the common expression braved the elements, like a snow storm. It is fairly common expression. He pushed through or braved the snow storm to bring some food to his elderly neighbors.
Rigel & Adela are old crosswordese. so maybe not a good idea to cross them. But they are not obscure to very long time solvers anyway.
I had forgotten there was a Shakespeare clue until someone complained about it. (On a rant about old fogey clues). I love Shakespeare clues but I am old oh well I could have replied about the many rap names I learned so I could do the crossword, without complaining here. but I didn’t. Oh I guess I just did.
Anyway, I liked the puzzle. Fairly easy I thought. But RIGEL did come to me from previous crosswords and ADELA more vaguely. So wheelhouse & all that Liked the theme. I can see why they chose Arlington, to get MIL now , but like 2 commenters earlier, the choice bothered me while doing the puzzle. Excellent theme though
Ah, but which vowels exactly? Not telling... ;-)
Flew through most of the puzzle, including the first three themers, then got completely stuck on the SE, as I could not figure out the rest of SENATE____, did not know RIGEL or ADELA, did not connect the dots on TPED for the longest time, saw multiple options for 58A (NOSIR, NOWAY) and the clue for BRAVE had me thinking in a very different direction. I just stared at a blank space for the longest time :/
There are four major groups of land plants in existence. You know what they all have in common? They are all more that 375 million years old. Dumb clue for a wonderful answer.
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