![]() ![]() What is there to study? I can’t let it go, found these two NYT entries from waaaay back: No cool site expounding on exactly what these guys do. I googled it, and mainly I just got dictionary definitions. It’s our little thing.įun to learn not only that there are people out there who study BEARDS, but that they’re legit because they’ve been assigned an official name. And I, as usual, kept telling her she sounded like Chewbacca. (They lounge around all day near the house, the woods right there for their enjoyment, but then never go on their own.) So yesterday, as they’re jumping around waiting for me to lace my boots, Molly, (my avatar) as usual, kept making her Excited Sound. Now there’s a weird album name, huh? When I go for a walk in the woods, my dogs get euphoric. With total disregard to “Stones” in the clue, I wrote in “The Stones” before I finally got PET SOUNDS. I also really liked the clue, “Reform?” for MORPH. I agree with Rex - nice clue, but I saw past it. The only fill-in-the-blank I didn’t know, so I had the rare experience of having 1A as my first entry. – my goof that stayed in the grid until the very end: “ales” for OXEN. ![]() On a tangent: "I have met the enemy and he is us," should probably be ".he is we." Kelly.įinally – a Saturday I managed to finish. Ask any pogonologist that you meet at, say a cocktail party. Sometimes, I've heard folks say, "Oh, you're growing a beard." No, technically I'm just not shaving, I'm always growing a beard even when I'm clean shaven. I'm genetically programmed to be hirsute. Hard to refute the way it is clued in 63D, but I'm certain one of you can find a nit. Remember a few weeks back when folks on this blog were belaboring the whole CRU thing. Does this type of innocence still exist in popular culture, or even in real life? Netflix and chill! "Wouldn't It Be Nice" if we were older and could sleep together without those cultural restrictions keeping us apart. PET SOUNDS is a great album filled with pop songs written from the perspective of kids living in an adult dominated culture. I graduated from high school in '66, yeah Tartans! The Beach Boys were part of the soundtrack of that era, but for some weird reason I misread the clue and was looking for the title of a Rolling Stones album. Exhibit A: my seven year-old nephew hobbling back to camp with a pitiful look on his face. Fortunately, not so much in my swim shorts. I got sand in my everything, even my string cheese. I'm back after a week of camping at the beach. Only other major muff was HORA for HULA (?) (30D: Dance with strong percussion). And SUMO is correct for that imaginary clue. I had already seen the clue and misremembered it as saying. Dumbest thing I did with this puzzle was get JAPAN and then immediately jump over and write in. Do they have Oly on draft? In the NW, maybe? Does Oly even exist any more. Also took me a while to understand 53A: Draft picks? ( OXEN). Took me forever to understand clue on BITES (52A: On-line jerks?). My former student Libby Cudmore wrote a mystery novel that revolves around a MIXTAPE (available here). Happy to learn (and undoubtedly immediately forget) "pogonologists" ( 51D: Things studied by pogonologists => BEARDS). Nice clue on PEACE SIGN (1A: Double-digit figure?). This puzzle was smooth, polished, somewhat antiseptic. Stuff like NTH POWER and EAR DOCTOR feels like it should be NTH DEGREE and OTOLOGIST (or ENT). Nothing very marquee about any of the longer answers. Several colloquialisms, all of them fine, none of them great. Lots of "?" clues, all of them fine, none of them great. I feel like that stack of words is about representative of the Excitement Level I felt while solving. Whose books are those? Where are these people? Staged libraries? Their own offices? What was I talking about? Oh yes, the totally believable puzzleness of this puzzle. Like books in the background of remote TV interviews. ![]() Like a sample puzzle, maybe in the background of a sitcom or something, and totally feels plausible and real, but. No laughs, no groans, no joy, no wincing. It was just 7+ minutes of time spent filling in boxes. I had neither positive or negative feelings. Fill is clean, many answers are lively, or livelyish. ![]() Look, except for - URE (er.) and PANTO (lol no), there is nothing wrong with this puzzle. ![]()
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