Next, SW, even though I had wAitONeSEC holding me up. Got ACROBAT off just the B, had YEa, saw BRIOCHE, then filled in full. NE was first, ARAL, BIPED and DEBRA getting me off to a good start. When I first looked at the grid, with that ominous center of Long crossers, I said, "Holy moly, this is gonna take forever!", but I plodded on undaunted (OK, I really was daunted), and got each section bit by bit.
I couldn't spell the 9 letter drug to save my life.įirst pumps in the air as I finished and got the Happy Music! Toughie in each section. everything has been -0 since I last commented except for Thur. I screwed it up with VEDI.ĪBBACY is an SB classic speaking of which. Other than those two trouble sections the puzzle was normal Saturday I read your Winnie the Pooh poem last night and I found it quite glad you're feeling better and congrats on finishing yesterday's puzzle. Luckily I recognized the BFF clue after a few tries and FOVEA came back to me. In the SW I had a brief scare when _OVEA gave me nothing. For anyone who had to solve the NW knowing neither HORCRUX or OHHELL I feel ya. escaping me but I finally teased out OCTET and HOUSED which gave me all the leverage I needed to finish. Mind you HORCRUX was a gimme for me off the _UX but it sat up there all by itself for a long time. Great Saturday puzzle! I thought that NW section was going to do me in. Not even when my cheating is more like "checking" than cheating. And while there were things I loved in it - ELIAS HOWE GO WHOLE HOG BIPED and MANCAVES - I'm never a happy camper when I'm driven to cheat. What's a WEN? What's a FOVEA? And I had XRAY TEstS before XRAY TECHS.Ĭhock-full of stuff I didn't know, I found this one of the more arcane puzzles in a while. What are SUNK TANKS and why do they get people to donate money at carnivals? The fact that I don't know what BLOCK CHAINS are is why I would never invest in cryptocurrency. (I had had LOONIE at first isn't there some coin with a loon on it?) I typed in Lisa LING and Google said "Bingo!" I typed in TOONIE and up popped a coin.
So, for example, I typed in HORCR with no mention of the Harry guy and up popped HORCRUX. Everything else was a "check" - using what I already had or surmised instead of just looking it up. WHAT A DOWNER!Īctually, it was only one legitimate cheat: DEBRA. Took Plenty of head scratching which led to great satisfaction after a successful completion, and thanks for all the fun. I don't think I've ever known anyone who said "COOLIO", and I think if I did hear someone say that, I would take pains to avoid them in the future. I guess I should have known FOVEA as I've had three operations on my RETINA but I don't remember that term ever coming up. Also hesitated on ALOHAOE, which I sort of knew, but then was thinking that the Hawaiian alphabet didn't included the letter E. I wrote in the execrable AGAZE, but really, really didn't want to. The NE actually seemed easy, and BLOCKCHAIN is something I have seen in connection with cryptocurrencies, but they fall into the category of "things I've heard of but have no idea of what they are". Tried to start in the NW, per usual, and thought, oh oh.
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