Theme phrases that end with a word that is also a type of clothing are clued sartorially: Updated Monday morning: Lynn Lempel’s CrosSynergy / Washington Post crossword, “Change of Clothes” – Dave Sullivan’s review Thankfully, no cross-reference between 7d ESP and 32d TAROT, but I would have preferred a clue-echo-seer, perhaps? Maybe a different qualifier or conditional in the clue? Also, GET WARM isn’t quite standaloneworthy. (Not per se, anyway.) Negatively enhanced by crossing 28d ATE UP (though the down-up dichotomy is cute). FEATURED and WASTEFUL also figure into the calculations, adding to the tally of long fill.ģ3a HIT ON. That’s “counters” as objects counted with, not as someone or something that counts.ģ9d LIKEWISE, counterbalanced by 4d DICTATOR, which contains “ditto” in order, interspersed with CAR. Speaking of Monday level qualities, surprised by the slight misdirection in one-across BEADS.
#Playful chitchat crossword full#
“Just” four theme entries two spanning the full 15 columns, two relatively short 9-letter ones.
No revealer present, no revealer necessary, not even for a Monday. What was I saying? Oh yes, synonyms for making words with one’s mouth, lungs, and vocal chords. Why? Because one of the most well-known appearances of NOBLER comes from Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy in Shakespeare’s masterpiece: “… Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune …”ĭavid Poole’s Los Angeles Times crossword - pannonica’s write-up Favorite touch: NOBLER crossing the themer LEARN LEAR.Second, the crossing partials on the western flank: I BE/ IF WE. First, the southeast corner featuring the atrocious EENY/ NATL/ ERSE coupled with some more palatable downs and across. Countering the lively NE are two quite icky sections.Speaking of 10d CHRISTIE … You know, when he first came on the scene, my immediate (but joking) thought was the bully from the Woody Woodpecker cartoons, Buzz Buzzard.Fairly chewy northeast corner: SCANT/ UH-HUH/ BRAKE/ IBEX with SUB/ CHRISTIE/ AHAB/ NUKE/” THE X Factor”.Good fill, but I feel The Pill (or at least the Pill) still needs capitalization. Wonder if that will throw some solvers off? 36a for PIANO is also refreshingly playful.
Nothing fancy, just a solid theme with a little bit of variation (the one-word-to-two of the central spanner) to break up the monotony. I hear the egg rolling contest is not to be missed. Alternatively (but incorrectly), as it sort of looks in-grid, twin words separated by a shortened, elided “and.” CURIOUSER ’N’ CURIOUSER. Two-part phrases that are identical except that the second part sheds a terminal N that appears in the first section.
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