The theme answers are all topflight, especially that impressive 15 in the center of the grid, HAIRREPLACEMENT and the rest of the puzzle sings, with answers that don’t often show up in the normal course of solving like PAVLOV, TWINCITIES, TRICKKNEE, HAVOC, DABOMB and VALUE, (a nice, kinder, gentler entry when clued as “Care about”).Įven much of the dreaded crosswordese has been dealt with in a thoughtful manner so that boring answers like MISC. This was a rather unusual puzzle in that it was a rather easy solve, making it seem, at first, like just an average offering by Kevan Choset, but on reflection it is actually quite a special piece of work. That she repeals him for her body's lust Īnd by how much she strives to do him good, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,Īnd she for him pleads strongly to the Moor, When devils will the blackest sins put on, To counsel Cassio to this parallel course, That she may make, unmake, do what she list, To win the Moor-were't to renounce his baptism, In any honest suit: she's framed as fruitful To win the Moor again? For 'tis most easy When this advice is free I give and honest, IAGO: And what's he then that says I play the villain? Michael, good night: to-morrow with your earliest Did not get the pleasure of encountering the MOE clue until I had it completely filled in from crosses ( 62A: "The Simpsons" character who says "Oh geez" a lot). of a space-to-earth experiment on Apollo 14). Normally I'm against elaborate clues for junk fill, but that some trivia I don't mind knowing ( 52D: Subj. I guess you can tell what letters I had in place when I made that (bad, unthinking) guess. 72), and it took some scrambling to put it together today because I had ODESSA at first at 46A: Greek peak SE of Olympus ( MT. I will never ever remember whatever it is that MASADA is, despite seeing it several times now ( 46D: Siege site of A.D. I thought the was going to be a single human being, like a PBS donor or something, so NEA needed crosses. Had GAEA and then RHEA as the ( THEA), which meant TITUS took some time to come into view ( 7D: Emperor who completed the Colosseum). There were a few tricky places in the grid today. 59A: Nighttime Broadway wardrobe? (CATS PAJAMAS).48A: Pessimistic Broadway investors? (CHICAGO BEARS) - somehow never noticed until today that Chicago has both BULLS and BEARS.
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