friday, october 26, 2007
david quarfoot / will shortz
difficulty factor: ouch! mis-reading and stubbornness got in the way
theme: none
okay , short post today, sorry, life happens...
wow! what a great puzzle! difficult but fair, and not a lotta painful croswordese. i thought it was one of the best puzzles this year.
56A opposites hiver [HIVE-airre] and èté [eh-TAY]... winter and summer... ah, french!
hmm... today 32A: TROUNCES, yesterday jounces. tomorrow... bounces? pounces?
i mis-read 29D "alb coverer" as "ab" coverer and insisted on TUMMY for way too long... messin' up a whole buncha virginia/north carolina stuff... doh!
what the hell's up with 55D and 58D?! i don't get it...
and i was certain something was amiss when P and G started 19A... aaaarrrggh!
okay, today's pop quiz: examine the following pictures closely... which is the odd one out?! 2D YOKO ONO, 53A ALF, or francis albert 25D SINATRA 
holy crap! i almost forgot fred's flintstone's boss... 38D MR. SLATE! that just would't be right.
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in the "your mileage may vary" category:
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best clue of the day: 22A "miss gulch biter"... be-yoo-tiful
best answer of the day: 17A ONE FLAT
worst clue of the day: ? i couldn't find a real bad one!
worst answer of the day: (ditto above)
keep on keepin' on...
dann
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2 comments:
2 can sing, alf can't? (yeah, yeah, i know. but i like her.) 2 make hand signs, frank doesn't? 2 are aliens, frank's not? i give.
55,58 D: maybe if 58 had read: "see 55-down...ready? GO!"
i dunno, but i still liked it and just pretended it made more sense than maybe it does. good eye, dann.
corn,
your answers are as god as any!
re: that 55/58 thang: that's sorta what i thought was goin' on/missin'
later, brother!
dann
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