![]() We've had long discussions abotu MARTINAMIS tho on this blog, "TImes Arrow", etc. Here's why it's not a typical Monday (IMHO)ĮIGHT theme answers (plus EARTH, which throws the theme off ever so slightly, bec it throws the "progression" of the word ART slightly off.Īlso it's a hidden word, which is usually more Tuesday esqueĪlso MARTINAMIS whom I love and think is the most articulate guy alive is NOT well known to many many folks, tho his father, Kingsley, probably is, thaks to "Lucky Jim" and crosswords. I am shocked, shocked at Rex's time, bec I would have thought this totally challenging. It's probably one of the best Monday puzzles you've ever done bec there is nothing about it that's a Monday! 2 really wants me to listen to it now, so goodbye. Also, an anagram of APT.īartok's Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra No. My favorite clue of the day is a very simple one that no one is likely to have noticed- 61D: Congratulate nonverbally ( PAT). I screwed up but once during my entire solve-put in TAPE instead of TIVO (which has tripped me up now two days in a row). RARE EARTH also seemed to fill itself in without my thinking about it ( 40D: With 43-Across, yttrium or scandium). IONO- was a dead giveaway for IONOSPHERE ( 10D: Where the Northern Lights occur) likewise ICONO- for ICONOCLAST ( 26D: Antiestablishment figure). I got several answers today, including one theme answer and both long Downs, without ever looking at the clues. Density alone doesn't impress me much, but when it's coupled with relative grid smoothness, it's noteworthy. More on thematic density: every Down answer crosses a theme answer, most cross two, and four Downs actually have to cross *four* theme answers. 64A: *Gradually separated ( MOVED APART).60A: *Like some checks and vendors ( THIRD PARTY).51A: *Container next to a bowl of cereal ( MILK CARTON).45A: *National discount store chain ( DOLLAR TREE).25A: *Having both Republican and Democratic support ( BIPARTISAN) - ha ha ha ha ha ha.20A: *College near Philadelphia ( SWARTHMORE).17A: *British novelist who wrote "London Fields" ( MARTIN AMIS). ![]() Sometimes I'm freakishly fast sometimes I'm freakishly slow. Hence "Easy" for me, probably more "ordinary Monday" for most. I blew through this one in near-record time (2:32), then noticed I was nearly a full minute faster than the guys by whose times I usually gauge myself (at the NYT puzzle site). Sub-Monday, if there were such a category, which there isn't. Not often you see a theme this complex on a Monday-and for me, it definitely came in at a Monday time. Getting ART to "progress" like that is one thing-getting it to "progress" through answers that are both beautiful and (in several places) stacked on top of one another is amazing. You had me at MARTIN AMIS over SWARTHMORE. ![]() Dense, multi-layered, and full of vibrant and original-seeming answers. The Company also operates a multiprice-point variety chain under the name Deal$. The Company operates one dollar stores under the names of Dollar Tree and Dollar Bills. Its stores are supported by a nationwide logistics network of nine Distribution Centers. ![]() A Fortune 500 company, Dollar Tree is headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia and operates 4,009 stores throughout the 48 contiguous U.S. ( NASDAQ: DLTR) is an American chain of discount variety stores that sells every item for $1.00 or less. Word of the Day: DOLLAR TREE ( 45A: *National discount store chain) - Dollar Tree, Inc. ![]() ART starts in the first letter position with ARTICULATE, second letter position with MARTIN AMIS, and eventually ends in the eighth letter position with MOVED APART or, literally, what the answers to the eight starred clues contain?) - eight starred clues contain the word "ART," which "progresses" one letter to the right in each new theme answer (reading top to bottom), i.e. THEME: A WORK IN PROGRESS ( 36A: Unfinished project. I think times will be somewhat slower-than-avg. ![]()
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