Note: A GAR may also be a gift in a long thin box. I still have a bug up my b*tt over Saturday's puzzle and this one is helping me forget. The 3 filled squares by the missing S seemed interesting as well. Got the theme right away and found the SEGNO fill (our missing S) to be ingenious. The little gray cells finally said "go fur it dude" and I was done. Sickos, just cause I won't let them play with my Barbies! However, the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes clue and the SOAPY fill gives me another idea.ġ5 minute Tuesday for me as I was not sure of PISA or INURE. On that note, step twins are planning on telling their school they watched me create doll porn over xmas. "thematically dense and yet playful" - I see puzzle snobbery on the horizon. It covers such diverse topics as Star Wars, family, and tree blood.": Wade writes: "Sorry, I’ve already solved it. Wade's son has constructed his first puzzle. He's won two Super Bowls and just this past weekend kept his team in the playoff hunt with a ridiculous last-second win over the Packers. BEN is one of the three or four most highly regarded quarterbacks in the NFL right now. 37D: Gridder Roethlisberger (Ben) - "Gridder" makes me laugh.25D: Pinochle lay-down (meld) - clue sounds dirty.12D: Athenian lawgiver (Solon) - the very word "lawgiver" screams SOLON to me, but only because I had a course called "Athenian Democracy" in college.8D: Needle-nosed fish (gar) - he's been on holiday, I think, because he used to swim all over the grid in times of yore.54A: Pakistan's chief river (Indus) - haven't thought about this river since my 7th grade geography test, but there it was, waiting for me, in my mind.20A: Animals farmed for their fur (minks) - doesn't pass my breakfast test.15A: Like slander, as opposed to libel (oral) - I see the ORAL Roberts memorial crossword tour has stopped at.I've printed this cover here before, but it's worth seeing again. 14A: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" writer Loos (Anita) - a gimme.no tiresome words, you're doing your job.
Any time you can get a section with all short answers to come out with a. Have to say that the SW is especially nice, if likely unremarkable to most. ANENT is ugly, but it's a real word, and the rest of the fill is at worst tolerable, occasionally lovely. SEGNO is the only thing that feels un-Tuesday. 40 black squares help give answers room to breathe and keep the fill from becoming terrible. Creates a thematically dense and yet playful (and reasonably open) grid. Shortish theme answers allow for the close placement of two Acrosses in the NW and SE corners, respectively, which then opens up room in the NE and SW for two Downs. The grid shape is really interesting to me. 32D: Money for liquor? (lush funds) - also good.10D: Ads aimed at hikers and picnickers? (park plugs).57A: Addicted to shopping? (mall-minded).22A: Personnel concern for Santa? (elf esteem) - yeah, that's good.17A: Attendant at a '50s dance? (hop steward)."Stop Seware? Who's Seware?" Lastly, wrote in "IT IS I" instead of the correct (if incorrect) "IT'S ME!" at 4D: Response to "Who's there?" I still got in in the mid-4s somewhere, but that's something like 30 seconds slower than usual. I wrote SLIPS UP for SLIP-UPS ( 33A: Goofs) ("Apt!"), and I totally and completely botched the NW initially and didn't even notice 'til I was "done": had DAT for DAH ( 1D: Morse T) and OLE for OLD ( 9D: Jolly _ Saint Nick), and so had TOP STEWARE at 17A. SEGNO was a total mystery, though (as w/ many total mysteries) I have an eerie feeling it's been in my puzzle before. I've seen NINON before ( 67A: Curtain fabric), but needed every cross to finish it off (sounds like a mash-up of Every Other Fabric I've Ever Heard Of). This one took longer than usual, both because this type of theme generally requires you to work a lot of crosses before you can see the theme answers clearly (a base answer that's not clued, a wackily clued answer that isn't a real phrase in the English language), and because of a couple of missteps and mystery words.
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