The SENSE/import connection was difficult and I've never heard of Brisk.
I had my troubles in the SE and SW corners. That is not to say that any puzzle that contains LOESS and OOSPORES and King Zog could be considered easy. Meeting GEORGE there was like bumping into an old friend at rush hour in Grand Central. This MAS beauty was right up my alley and I got huge boost when my first two answers were MARILYNMONROE and GEORGESMILEY. Many snow birds WINTERED here this season and loved it, but are now back in WA, OR, ID, BC, and Alberta. A delight to watch and not included in HOA fees. We have had a Great Horned Owl boldly setting up house in a palm tree smack dab in the middle of Club Circle Condo Complex. So many units of explosive capacity prefixes, and I tried them all until GEORGE raised his head.īirding is big in the desert, not a lot of trees to block the view. He who dies with the most toys wins! Still dead, but winning. LOESS just drops in as good earth, and I don't know why. Somehow, I came up with DILLY DALLIES and got the crossing MARILYN MONROE, who is the icon of feminine beauty in American culture, and has been for decades. What's not to like about this Saturday effort? I expect some push back late in the week and, guess what? I'm no constructor, but not a lot of black squares in this grid. And while you're at it, please admire the second notable feature-a truly stellar clue (in the blue strip, up top) for SNOB: One, its theme-the title is "Initial Sandwich" see if you can figure out why. I thought you'd like to see his latest creation, which is. I think I mentioned that erstwhile crossword plagiarist Timothy Parker was back publishing puzzles for Universal (a widely syndicated crossword). Connective tissue is mostly strong, with DURA/ITSA being the only weak spot. Maybe even a hair's breadth faster than usual. But at the end of the solve, I was a little bit under 9 minutes-very average for a Saturday. Like HEARTS, ECARTE is Also A Trick-Taking Game. Biggest problem spot of the day was easily the NW, where (" THE A-TEAM") just destroyed me, and -ART- sent my pattern recognition program straight to ECARTE ( 3D: Trick-taking card game). Had SUMMERED for WINTERED at 11D: Spent a season in the sun? for a bit, and needed nearly ever cross for NATANT (18A: Swimming), an actual word that I've never seen used anywhere. I knew -SMILEY (read "Smiley's People" a couple years back) but totally forgot his first name, so getting into the SW corner was a little tricky. Took me a while to get MARILYN MONROE ( 15D: Famed Pop Art subject) because I (very) wrongly assumed 13A: Hannibal's men ended in an "S," which gave me the wrong initial letter for the MARILYN answer. SE corner filled up pretty fast, and once DEAD GIVEAWAY ( 21D: It's pretty obvious) floated up, that fat, open center became far more tractable, far less daunting. From this point on, I generally had enough leverage to work my way through the grid without much trouble. Filled some stuff in around its tail end, and bing bam boom I'm way down in the SE corner. Aside from that cluster in the North, the first answer I was sure of was ABATTOIR, which luckily I at least partially spelled correctly.
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