9A: It was sung in Rocky Balboa's neighborhood ( DOO WOP) - back when I thought DARRIN was JARRED, I had this answer starting JOO.16A: Accidentally uninked embossed stamp ( ALBINO) - I have no idea what this means.Wow, that's a mistake someone should have caught. Wait, am I reading this right? "Septic" in the ANAEROBE clue ( 15A: Septic tank resident) and SEPTIC as an answer at 46D: Infected. SW was the only corner w/o a complete Unknown, and, not surprisingly, the easiest for me to bring down. TUZIGOOT!? Once I decided RAZE ( 43A: Word whose antonym is its own homophone) and FIG ( 53A: Whit) were right, there was nothing left to do but finish the puzzle and then google to see if that nonsense word was, in fact, a thing. A word that I didn't know, as well as a word that had Not A Single Inferrable Letter. From WINDCAPE to XEROSIS to the SW, where the biggest WTF was lying in wait for me. XEROSIS, never heard of it ( 8D: Possible result of vitamin A deficiency). dimensions ended up being *really* important in that clue ( 1A: It may measure 16" x 16" x 2").
Finally wanted ANAEROBE ( 15A: Septic tank resident) and figured ANAEREBE was not a real thing, so gave up REGO (real answer is BORO), which allowed me then, finally, to put that corner to bed, but only after waiting out the second part of PIZZA. Had to close in on it from the SE (which, once I finally got to it, I finished *very* quickly).įirst real thorny part came in NW, where bad guess of REGO at 6D: _ Park (B'klyn neighborhood) got me the "O" I needed for SO SORRY but screwed me up in every other way. In fact, this is the part of the puzzle I finished last. Went back and did the NE corner, but could only drop WINDCA- down at 12D: National park in South Dakota, as I've never heard of the park *and* did not know JAPAN could be an *adjective* ( 34A: Like the rarest rhino). Dropped OLAY down and SO SORRY across and things got very open very quickly. Anyway, RAINES made that corner very accessible. Yeesh ( 9D: Catcher Fletcher of the 1990s Expos=> DARRIN). The fact that he crosses another, much more obscure Montreal Expo is some kind of giant F*^% YOU to all the non-sports-fans out there. Got off to a very fast start by knowing Tim RAINES ( 18A: 1987 All-Star Game M.V.P.). This had many different difficulty levels, depending on what section of the grid I happened to be in.
0 kommentar(er)
