Does this mean they’re on their last legs?), HAIL CAESAR has Caesar, DUDE RANCH has ranch, RUSSIAN MOB‘s got Russian (eww), and THE ITALIAN JOB has Italian. JAILHOUSE ROCK has house dressing (I was astonished last week to be told that a restaurant had only the house vinaigrette and no other options, though I know they used to always have balsamic. Theme is CROSS DRESSING, , and this 14d answer crosses five long answers right through words that are also types of salad dressing. Anyone else feel that Tuesday and Wednesday were flip-flopped? I found this puzzle to be a good bit easier than yesterday’s NYT. NY Times crossword solution, 5 15 19, no. Zhouqin Burnikel’s New York Times crossword-Amy’s recap I’m presuming this is art-related? Is “Life” a standard term for a class in which you draw or paint living things?įun grid with sparkly theme entries and long fill. Do you consider ammunition to be ARMS? I’ve only ever heard the word used when referring to weaponry (firearms and such). Recently we’ve gotten into SPAM musubi so much so that I bought a little musubi maker from my local Asian supermarket. As a descendant of islanders, I grew up eating a lot of SPAM, and thanks to me, so did my kids. Didn’t care much for XIN, but that’s a small nit in an otherwise solid grid. I loved seeing SLUGGO in the grid as well as POMPEII, KAPUT, the BLEH/ MEH combo, and especially BATTLE SCAR and SORE LOSERS. Thankfully, after those initial struggles, I either got onto the right wavelength or else the bottom half of the grid was clued more straightforwardly.
It wasn’t until I got the lower half of the crossings that I could see it was going for I BET. And on the right, I went with a sarcastic-sounding YEAH to answer 9a. In the middle, JOKE seemed the likely answer to 5a, but it turned out to be JEST. I went with ARFS and TONS before fighting with the crossings to land at YAPS and A LOT. I struggled mostly in the upper half of the grid starting at 1a atop 13a. I wonder if Alex considered something like WIKI LEAKS. Nothing tricky about this theme, but it’s nice and clean and satisfying. I like the entry as well as finding the more exotic mango included here. Not in my wheelhouse, but it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it. Sweetness is not this fruit’s key aspect.
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