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I love it when being married to a geologist pays off.I don’t know why I find that so pleasing, but I do. I really liked the rest of that top stack. I’m sure there are people who have ZERO TOLERANCE for JEAN-PAUL SARTRE. I realize that there’s no scientific reason for my “ick” reaction, and yet – ick.

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We start off at 1a with, which is not a film, TV show, or cruelty-free makeup product, but rather LAB GROWN MEAT. This was not particularly difficult and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Natan Last’s New Yorker crossword-Jenni’s write-upīen’s having a busy day at work and I have a bit of a lunch break, so here I am with Natan’s lovely puzzle. A bit more diverse representation across the theme/puzzle and I’d be fully smitten! Overall, I enjoyed the theme and cruised through the puzzle at a rapid clip. Minus points for those women in the grid being from a different era ( ZSA) or problematic ( LENA Dunham). I mean, two of them are gay, so there’s that, but women and people of color can’t be COOL CATs, too? Audie Cornish, Agatha Christie, and others would like a word.īonus points for this puzzle being by a woman constructor and for women being included in the grid. Minus points for every theme entry being a white dude. Nice!īonus points to the constructor for having as much theme fill as she does without so much fill that makes me say ICK (aside from ENER OWAR SQMI RIC ENOL). I appreciated that the revealer didn’t just include AC, but asked the solver to take that one extra step of putting all the pieces together. I really dug this theme! Each of the theme entries has the initials AC and, with air conditioning, each of these men would certainly be a COOL CAT. Is it hot in here? It certainly isn’t for these theme entries:Ģ2A: ANTON CHEKHOV ĥ2A: AARON COPLAND Ħ1A: ANDREW CARNEGIE ģ8A: COOL CAT Susan Gelfand’s Los Angeles Times crossword-Nate’s write-up MYOPE and BANTU are the toughest bits of fill. AUSTRALIA and ESCALATOR (with the lovely clue ) are our long Downs along with APOSTLES and WARDROBE. Other than those missteps, which were entirely my own fault, this is a very clean grid. Oh, and despite having ERIE at 49a, I got rid of the I to put in ARCHES at 51d. I had a couple of mistakes during the solve: EPIC for SAGA ( 29a, ) and RAMP UP for STEP UP ( 36a, ).

I’d never heard of VALLEY STREAM, but the crossing were all easy enough. MASTER SWITCH makes for a good revealer, and for once, plurals in the theme answers aren’t there out of symmetrical necessity, but anagrammatical necessity. Actually, are there any non-Cirque du Soleil circuses around anymore since Ringling Bros/Barnum & Bailey closed up shop a couple years ago? I don’t suppose there are any more current lion tamers in circuses. The original phrase translates to “generous mother.” The actual Latin plural would be almae matres. Is that how you pluralize the Latin phrase? Ah, the all-seeing Internet tells me that’s an acceptable English version. WSJ – Mon, 1.28.19 – “Power Play” by Gary Cee

Each theme answer’s last word is an anagram of MASTER. We have an anagram theme today with the revealer MASTER SWITCH ( 58a, ). Gary Cee’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Power Play” - Jim P’s review What I didn’t know before I did this puzzle (or at least before I wrote this blog post): that the KNEE BONE song was written by James Weldon Johnson and is a spiritual based on a text from Ezekiel. We’ve had all too much exposure to smirking in the news lately. Not for nothing is there one in the Museum of Modern Art.

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I had a Smith Corona portable electric typewriter like everyone else I knew. This puzzle is laughing at us like an old Beavis and Butthead episode.Paging Shirley Maclaine: 23d is a PAST LIFE.

I like the 21st century feel to the clues and revealer. SIDE KICK doesn’t sound all that familiar to me, but the only sport I follow is baseball and there’s no kicking in baseball.

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The START of each theme entry is a kind of KICK: FREE KICK, SIDE KICK, and DROP KICK. What ties them together? 62a : KICKSTARTER. This is more commonly heard as “mic drop,” but I’ll take it.

Today we freecycled a portable dance floor and barre and a free-standing storage shelf.