45A SHE – I know her from The New Girl, but evidently she is a singer this is a real music group with real records and some decent sounding music.14A EXTRA BALL – Clever! I had EXTRA LIFE instead, which understandably caused minor issues during solving.1A GOAT YOGA – This is the main entry that made me smile! I guess this falls under the don’t-knock-it-until-you-try-it category, but how is yoga with a goat … better?.Some of these entries literally made me smile broadly, and that is part of the joy of crosswording! A robust 4.7 stars from me for this gem. Yes, there are error marks in the grid, and yes, I did learn a new word and maybe a new factoid or two. My friend Kyle has been cranking out some puzzles lately, and today’s LAT Saturday is another stellar production. Kyle Dolan’s LA Times crossword – Derek’s write-up And now for the Trim Jeans Theatre (Monty Python) production of “Murder in the Cathedral.” It took a few seconds after filling that last one in to realize that “company” did not mean a business, but “accompaniment” instead. Best clues: for SPIT, for ITALIC, and for ESCORT.It was also televised in 1936 in the early months of the BBC. ELIOT play “ Murder in the Cathedral.” Apparently, it depicts the murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, and was commissioned by the Bishop of Chichester for the Canterbury Festival in 1935. I’m pretty sure our constructor used RATE HIKE as the basis for a theme a few weeks ago.I’m not seeing any other obvious trouble spots. Some might have trouble with OMA crossing both SEDONA and SCRAT. There’s very little to complain about, as usual with Zhouqin. There are loads of 6s and 7s in the grid, and all of them are solid if not good. Likes: OXICLEAN, REAR ENDS, ORATORIO, CANISTER, RATE HIKE, POLEAXE, ERUDITE, CLINCHER, SEASONAL, T.S. But once I knew what was going on, I basically just scanned each clue to get the gist of it and went from there. The SpongeBob one is short and sweet, but the others felt needlessly drawn out. If I have one nit with the theme, it’s that the clues felt verbose. Bumper… I like this one, too, though I thought at first that “ginger” was referring to hair color. I had trouble equating “tense news” with jumpiness. Jumper… This one is the most questionable of the lot, so it made for a rough start. WSJ – Sat, 11.14.18 – “Comparatively Speaking” by Zhouqin Burnikel She cleverly takes two-word phrases in which the first word ends in -ER and converts that word to a comparative by adding a strategically-placed letter I. ZB brings us this fun Saturday-sized romp. Zhouqin Burnikel’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Comparatively Speaking” - Jim P’s review
The “yay big” spelling is also accepted outside of this grid. I mean I see the number and how do I answer it. I can’t find a way to call or answer the calles that come up. “What is this witchcraftery: I bought this and not only can I not get to the App Store. You can buy yourself one at Amazon-I like the 1-star review for that model. It’s wild that a number of health-care professionals still carry pagers. I interpreted the clue as referring to prison cells or biological cells rather than cell phones. The striped skunk’s species name is Mephitis mephitis. Noisy puzzle, with PHEW, PISH, BAM, and MEOW.īleh: TSE SRO MHZ ATPAR KAN NETWT and INITIATOR. No, wait, I did a Google image search for Corot’s “Ville-d’Avray” and it’s a bunch of blurry-looking paintings.
Likes: “ SWIPER, NO SWIPING,” HIGH MAINTENANCE, IDLE SPECULATION, the Japanese SHOJI/TATAMI combo, “THE CLAWS COME OUT,” YERTLE THE TURTLE, RED BULL, RAP SHEET, NAE-NAE, NIETZSCHE, WELCH’S jam and COROT. Seemed a bit smoother than I expect from most grids with triple-stacked 15s. This Saturday puzzle played like a Friday for me, despite a handful of entries that weren’t coming to mind without crossings. NY Times crossword solution, 11 24 18, no 1124 A number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest "the score was 7 to 0" a set of twenty members "a score were sent out but only one returned" a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally) a written form of a musical composition parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages "he studied the score of the sonata" an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar) "add it to my score and I'll settle later" gain points in a game "The home team scored many times" "He hit a home run" "He hit.
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