![]() One wouldn’t say “This F.M.” or “This P.R.” when referring to an FM station or a PR campaign.ĭespite that, I had no problem granting the theme a little leeway, and I still enjoyed it since it felt fresh. The other two don’t work that way, unfortunately. ![]() (That is, one could say “This disc jockey likes big hits,” or “This air conditioner gives me a chill”.) Lots of wordplay going on, especially in the first two entries, mainly because the clues as written could be applied to their original respective entities. Our theme consists of famous people whose initials are also common initialisms, but as used in the clue, the initials don’t stand for what they normally stand for (hence the title). This fooled me.ĭesiree Penner and Jeff Sinnock’s Universal crossword, “Doesn’t Stand for It”-Jim P’s review First time I’ve seen this alternative to the animated chihuahua. The former derives from Old German while the latter is from Latin, although I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s been some intermingling over the centuries. Just checked etymologies and it turns out that angst and anxiety-seeming cognates-have different origins. Fallout from that included SSH for 9d UGH. Having STARE here janked things up for a while. My main association with superpositioning is with four-dimensional hypercubes-tesseracts.Īnother minor ding is the IM appearing prominently in the non-theme long entry 11d PANTOMIMIST-that it has a playful question-mark clue exacerbates the idea that it might be theme-related. These are all right, but I’ll call partial foul on the last, since superpose is a word, one of whose senses is the same as superimpose. I liked how ‘superhero landing’ poses were mocked in Black Widow and Deadpool. That is, the bigram IM is removed from the original phrases. The central revealer certainly helped, and hastened my solve. Taylor Johnson’s Los Angeles Times crossword - pannonica’s write-up Did not know that HAIM was somehow connected with “The Wire.” Had never heard of Harryette Mullens, ELI Clare, or “Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating.” A good puzzle and a bunch of additions to my reading list! Bonus. Never heard of the Sandy Tolan book referenced in 1a, which sounds fascinating. What I didn’t know before I did this puzzle: SO MANY THINGS. Wow, what a difference it makes in my solving experience. What other puzzle would have a preppy sweater as a theme entry? Plus we’ve got Harryette Mullens, Maya Angelou, a Taylor Swift song, a reference to the Pink Tax, and Girl Scouts. I always enjoy and appreciate the Inkubator vibe. All the crossings use the rebus word in solid, in-the-language entries. ![]() They’re not symmetrical I like the challenge of that. The rebuses are all different, so I have to figure them out. Inkubator, September 22, 2002, Shannon Rapp and Rose Sloan, “Garden Variety,” solution grid
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