![]() ![]() Did not know (or more likely did not remember) that Randy AROZARENA won the 2021 AL Rookie of the Year. Never heard of the Roald Dahl book ESIOTROT, which is TORTOISE reversed. What I didn’t know before I did this puzzle: oh, so many things. I enjoy the first/last mini-theme thing Peter often does in his themeless puzzles. “Doodles” as in dogs that are poodle crosses. It’s NINE LIVES, not what an ancient Ethiopian says after someone sneezes. Do non-medical people know what “agglutinated” means? 9d is CLUMPED, not CLOTTED, as I originally thought.We’re both off the hook, and I owe him an apology. 1a I was afraid this was going to be something like HOME DEPOT (I know it doesn’t fit) and I was going to feel obliged to lecture Peter about sexism. ![]() Make of that what you will.įireball, March 22, 2023, Peter Gordon, “Themeless #149,” solution grid Of course I only slept about three hours last night. This one felt a bit harder to me than recent Fireball themelesses. Peter Gordon’s Fireball Crossword, “Themeless #149” – Jenni’s write-up There’s some good stuff here, but too many compromises weighed it down. Two or three of these would be okay, but altogether, they made for a less fun solve. NOSE RING is great as well.īut for my money, there were just too many gluey bits in this grid: plural NTHS, old OSS, UTA (not clued via actress Hagen) crossing the uncommon IT HELP, ARB (still not sure what that is), random Roman numerals MMC, defunct cars AMCS, and worst of all uncommon EOLITH crossing ATL clued via a 2006 film. NAKATOMI TOWER (skyscraper in Die Hard) might’ve fit the bill.īUDGET CUTS and CALF MUSCLE are fun, though you might not classify them as “fill” since they contribute to the theme. With all the three-letter school names that exist, surely one could’ve been found. Lastly, I wanted the final entry’s school to span multiple words just like the others. Since there aren’t any circles in the grid (and I don’t think there needs to be), help the solver out a bit by choosing longer theme answers that are a little more identifiable. ![]() I really expected them to be longer to stand out. The biggest surprise after that was the shortness of the two middle theme answers. My first thought was a rebus, but it never materialized and I was able to spot LSU. I knew something was up from the first entry when USUAL SUSPECTS didn’t fit. USUA L SUSPECTS with LSU from “ I’LL SUE!” ![]()
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