And here: I'll stick a PayPal button in here for the mobile users. In making this pitch, I'm pledging that the blog will continue to be here for you to read / enjoy / grimace at for at least another calendar year, with a new post up by 9:00am (usually by 12:01am) every day, as usual. They also were dis- or de- adjectives (alternating) that have meanings unrelated to the profession, creating good wordplay. Babe who never lied - crossword clue. DISILLUSIONED MAGICIAN. SNOW ANGELS (28A: Things kids make in the winter).
Just the singular, personal voice of someone talking passionately about a topic he loves. Whatever happens, this blog will remain an outpost of the Old Internet: no ads, no corporate sponsorship, no whistles and bells. I value my independence too much. Minor: somehow INTERIOR DESIGNER does not seem repurposed enough; that is, we're still talking about designers, and what with Vera WANG getting into home furnishings (maybe she's been there a long time already; I wouldn't know), somehow the distance between the revealer phrase and the concept of a fashion designer isn't stark enough to make the reveal really snap. Of course the parameter of matching word lengths for symmetry also went into the choices. From the LO FAT TAE BO of the NORTE to the KOI of the IONIAN ISLA in the south. Since these theme entries were on the long side I was restricted to seven; usually I like eight or nine theme entries. Ernie ELS (10D: 1994 P. Babe who never lied. G. A. 16D: I was absolutely taken in by this clue — read right over Feburary, which is next month MISSPELLED.
They each define a person with a particular career, who has been removed from that particular career; their specific state of unemployment can be expressed as a pun. DIED ON also was an invented entry that helped me out of a difficult spot. Subscribers can take a peek at the answer key. RARE GEM, which has never appeared in a Times puzzle before, just came to me and helped complete a difficult area. I remember a few, including a great nautical puzzle, and I think of Mr. Ross as a very elegant and intricate constructor — today's grid has two theme spans and a lot of very bright fill that made it a fun solve. 24D: Perhaps this entry defines itself, as it's a debut today, RARE GEM. The idea is very simple: if you read the blog regularly (or even semi-regularly), please consider what it's worth to you on an annual basis and give accordingly. And those aren't even the nadir. I figured it was O. K. because I have had more than a few batteries die on me. It will always be free. This resulted in lots of longer-fill entries involving some less common words and phrases. You gotta do better than this. Alex Rodriguez aka A-ROD (69A: Youngest player ever to hit 500 home runs, familiarly). That's one shy of his Sunday golden jubilee, and it puts him in fine company.
There are seven theme entries today, running across at 22, 29, 46, 63, 83, 100 and 111. INTERIOR DESIGNER, and it can't have been easy to embed that many *well-known* designers names inside two-word phrases. Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium (normal Tuesday time, but it's 16 wide, so... must've been easier than normal, by a bit). SUNDAY PUZZLE — They say that comedy is just tragedy plus time (who they are can be pretty much up to you, since the Venn diagram of humorists and people credited with that expression is about a perfect circle). THEME: INTERIOR DESIGNER (41A: Elle Decor reader... or any of the names hidden in 18-, 28-, 52- and 66-Across) —there are *fashion* DESIGNERs in the INTERIOR of every theme answer: Theme answers: - FARM ANIMALS (18A: Most of the leading characters in "Babe"). I might accept HEAD or NECK or BRAIN INJURY as a stand-alone "body part INJURY" phrase, but all other body parts feel arbitrary.
The word RESELL has No Such Connotation. STU Ungar (43D: Poker great Ungar). Somehow, it is January again, which means it's time for my week-long, once-a-year pitch for financial contributions to the blog. This is to say that the revealer doesn't have the snappy wow factor that comes when we are forced to really reconceive what a phrase means, to think of it in a completely different way. SPECIAL MESSAGE for the week of January 10-January 17, 2016. Yes, we do have to think of it literally (designer's name physically situated in the "interior" of the theme phrase), and that is different, but we stay firmly in the realm of fashion / design. Moving from interior design to fashion design... just doesn't have pop. Today's puzzle is Randolph Ross's 49th Sunday contribution (he's made 110 puzzles, according to, in total). 69D: Last seen in 1985 and another addition to the seafaring word bank we go to now and then, a BRIGANTINE has two masts, yes, but apparently only one is square-rigged. It's an easy Tuesday puzzle; we shouldn't be seeing even one of those answers, let alone all of them. And can we please, please, in the name of all that is holy, retire TAE BO. Hint: you would not).
The good news was that with seven theme entries I was able to have a lower word count (134) for this puzzle. Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld. I have no way of knowing what's coming from the NYT, but the broader world of crosswords looks very bright, and that is sustaining. I have no interest in cordoning it off, nor do I have any interest in taking advertising. This is like cluing HOUSE as [Igloo].
A brig has two square-rigged masts, and is not (always) actually a BRIGANTINE, according to The New York Times, writing about a colonial-era ship excavated in Lower Manhattan. Trying to get back to the puzzle page? If you're feeling at all distempered right now, the rest of the entries include: Someone who works with nails. "Scalp" specifically implies massive mark-up. Here are some of the other possibilities that didn't make the cut: DEPARTED ACTOR, DEPRESSED DRY CLEANER, DEBUNKED CAMP COUNSELOR, DETESTED EXAMINER, DEBRIEFED LAWYER, DECOMPOSED SONG WRITER, DEFROCKED DRESSMAKER, DEPOSED MODEL, DISCHARGED SHOPPER, DISCOUNTED CENSUS TAKER, DISSOLVED PUZZLER, DISBARRED BALLERINA, DISCONCERTED MUSICIAN, DISINTERESTED BANKER. EYE INJURYs are real, but would you really buy EYE INJURY in your puzzle? Over and over again, the fill made me shake my head and grimace. Once we reached into the 70s and 80s with BEEPERS, entertaining UTAHANS and MCDLTS, I was on a bit firmer ground. However, there are several problems. A few particular entries that helped me complete this grid. Or my favorite, at 100A, the "Unemployed rancher, " or DERANGED CATTLEMAN, which made me think so much of this old song, for some reason. 72A: I was briefly flummoxed by the clue here and looked for a question like "Where were you, " that would have been in response, or something like "Am I late? "
This is one of those great party-size themes that we encounter now and then on a Sunday, where there are piles of examples, as evidenced by Mr. Ross's notes below, and which hopefully inspires your own inventions once you've grasped the concept. This is my 49th Sunday Times puzzle and for the first time I can say I had a glut of possible theme entries. Green paint (n. )— in crosswords, a two-word phrase that one can imagine using in conversation, but that is too arbitrary to stand on its own as a crossword answer (e. g. SOFT SWEATER, NICE CURTAINS, CHILI STAIN, etc. Some very brief entries were gotchas, like EPA (I thought Carter set up this agency) and BAA, of all things, simply because I'd only thought of cotes as housing doves. The timing of this puzzle, vis-à-vis the government shutdown, is an unfortunate coincidence; our lineup is scheduled and set so far in advance that this kind of juxtaposition can happen, and I hope that nobody is dismayed.
MCDLTS, with all its consonants, was a big help is filling that section … thank you McDonalds. Follow Rex Parker on Twitter and Facebook]. Anyway, if you are so moved, there is a Paypal button in the sidebar, and a mailing address here: ℅ Michael Sharp. Both kinds of people are welcome to continue reading my blog, with my compliments. 90A: A shop rule like 'No returns' is still a common CAVEAT. As I have said in years past, I know that some people are opposed to paying for what they can get for free, and still others really don't have money to spare.
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