Don't take our few days of puzzles away with dross like this. Please, you can save this type of fill for the super solvers of Freitag but please give us Monday solvers some crisp down fill. I became convinced that the answer for 67a was 'trou'. These longer down clues were just inane fill: "it is said', 'I do too', 'tell a lie', and even 'sea walls" was bad.Ĭoupled with answers that included two 'ups' and two 'tos', one 'at me', one 'it no' and then I started to see 'ru in', 'more no', and 'aer o'. The three long down clues were basically parenthetical clues. The across clues were interesting and the theme was OK but the down clues were crap. I want to enjoy the limited number of puzzles I can solve directly and with this puzzle I feel cheated. I don't time my puzzle solutions, I just rate my enjoyment and cleverness of the puzzles. I don't receive a Saturday puzzle and I piddle around on Sunday's puzzle throughout the week. Fridays are generally too rigorous for me. So thumbs up for the concept, thumbs somewhere in the middle for everything else.Īm I missing something here. Also, two UPs and two TOs really close to each other, and then AT ME and IT NO, also really close to each other. I don't like NANCE on a Monday (an old veep's middle name? no). You've got yourself a Sunday theme here-it's semi-squandered on these four measly answers. And where is the "rock" song? ("Turn to Stone"?). And hey, "TURNING JAPANESE" works if you like adjectives, and (drum roll) 15! Pardon me while I completely redo your grid for you.Īgain, love the concept. " AMERICAN PIE" is the worst of the themers, in that "American" is an adjective, not a country. There are certainly a bunch of songs with "America" in their titles. And there must be a bunch of song titles with a country name in them. But (drum roll) "KNOCK THREE TIMES" is a gorgeous 15 (bingo!) letters long. OK, I don't know any other famous songs about things that hop. Oh, right, the "genre in quotation marks" clues. Even now, I'm not sure (I'm deliberately not looking down and to my left, where the puzzle sits … I'm just going to try to remember … I know I liked it pretty well … something … nope, gotta look). I did this and then made dinner (a kind of pizza / salad hybrid that actually came out great) and then watched the latest "Orphan Black" (I would watch a spin-off just about Helena and her wacky, ultra-violent misadventures), and then came back up here to write and had completely forgotten what the puzzle was about. Roosevelt in early 1937 over the issue of enlarging the Supreme Court, and helped defeat it on the grounds that it centralized too much power in the President's hands. A conservative Southerner, Garner opposed the sit-down strikes of the labor unions and the New Deal 's deficit spending. In 1932, he was elected the 32nd Vice President of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941. He was the 44th Speaker of the House in 1931–1933. He was a state representative from 1898 to 1902, and U.S. John Nance Garner IV, known among his contemporaries as " Cactus Jack " (Novem– November 7, 1967), was an American Democratic politician and lawyer from Texas. Word of the Day: John NANCE Garner ( 31D: F.D.R. 60A: "Metal" song of 1950 ("SILVER BELLS").45A: "Country" song of 1971 ("AMERICAN PIE").THEME: "Genre" - songs are clued wackily, via a "genre" that they belong to only in the most literal of senses:
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