“Break into parts and analyze” – anything I’ve said to this woman, part of the brass at Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, who’s in our building all the time. So you /i * run/ your shirt and not /I *urn/ it? For once, I shut someone up. Let’s not even get into the fact that how a word is spelled isn’t that interesting to a linguist – I didn’t have time and knew he could never understand that part – I just said, Oh. And then I sat there, smug, remembering the death blow I delivered to someone else who thought they knew a lot about language and was arguing about how dumb it was to say /nu * kyu * lur/ instead of /nu * klee * ur/ ‘cause no one would just switch the order of two letters. We continue to argue about calling progeny kids instead of children. “Reared” before RAISED – snob mom’s influence. When I get in the water I make sure to do a few strokes of fly and then opt to hop out of the water without using the steps and hoisting myself up so that my foot lands on the side, and not my knee, but, again, I’m not fooling anyone. Mind you, mine are sporty-looking, not flouncy and stuff, but I’m not fooling anyone. Never been invited to a JACUZZI PARTY, but if I were, my untargeted BIKINI LINE wouldn’t be an issue since I’ve joined the ranks of women of a certain age who wear suits with those little skirts. ‘N’ That – I guess I’ll have to give turds in a milkshake a go. I forgot the next couple of moves, but he ended up checking his opponent, then sacrificing the knight, and winning the game.
After like forever, he promoted and asked for a knight instead of a queen. was in a helluva mess, even though his next move was to promote a pawn. That’s a bishop, though, right? Once in a high school chess tournament, Paul D. Loved the clue for ERRS and was reminded of the famous beware of Greeks bearing gifts chess dealie. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a LAUGH TEST, but it makes sense. You could argue that in a sense it’s an Easter egg, or, well today, a goose egg. True to its clue, BEE is indeed a creature in this rebus (sharing the grid with APIAN. So I made a BEEline right back to NAUGHTIEST. I always try to figure out the trick before resorting to considering the reveal, but today I accidentally saw 35D and couldn’t unsee it. I’ll say it again, I just like your writing style. 2D: Half of the only mother/daughter duo to be nominated for acting Oscars for the same film ( LAURA DERN) - she and her mom, Diane Ladd, were both nominated for 1991's (fabulous) "Rambling Rose".15A: Google's streaming device ( CHROMECAST) - weirdly never heard of this.It's in the far southern part of the state, relatively close to Las Vegas and about 400 miles from RENO, NEVADA. There's a MANSE, Nevada, I just found out. why is that? Perhaps because " A manse ( / ˈ m æ n s/ ) is a clergy house inhabited by, or formerly inhabited by, a minister, usually used in the context of Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and other Christian traditions. 59D: Stately estate ( MANSE) - I had MANOR.56D: Small, oily fish ( SPRAT) - weird that the guy who could eat no fat would be named after an "oily fish" but OK.After I was finished, I realized that DEC.
my brain was yelling something about " doDECahedron" at me, but I wasn't really listening. 33D: Prefix meaning "10" that's associated with 12 ( DEC) - I didn't fully understand the "12" part as I was solving.MARZIPAN JACUZZI PARTY! I want to go to one. MARZIPAN JACUZZI PARTY may be my favorite crossing of the year. Honestly, this is kind of a model rebus puzzle. And there was no time at which I was not enjoying myself. After ALBS, I don't think I winced once while solving this thing. This puzzle feels very thoughtful, very polished, and the revealer is both a lively, contemporary phrase and a genuine "aha" surprise. LAUGH TEST, JACUZZI PARTY, BIKINI LINES, HEAVEN ON EARTH, one after the other, the rebus squares and the answers that contained them were surprising and enjoyable. But today the rebus squares were surprises, even after I got the revealer, and much of the time they came rising to the surface inside of truly original answers, so that there was pleasure not just in finding the rebus square, but in PARSE-ing the answers that crossed it.
And sometimes the rebus squares end up making the fill feel tortured, with slightly off phrases or junky fill popping up everywhere you go. Boring, maybe, like you have to dutifully hunt down these boxes that all say the same thing. Rebuses are minefields by design-you gotta figure out where the hidden dangers are and defuse them or detonate them safely or whatever they do to mines to keep them from harming people. For a puzzle that started with ALBS (the crosswordesiest of priestly garments) and passed through vomit ( EMETIC), this one ended up being surprisingly fresh and delightful to solve.
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