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Fall means one thing: football going back to school. And I never thought I’d say it, but here goes: I’m going back to school. The class clown is back, baby!
Announcement to those in the Boston area: I will be teaching Crossword Construction this fall at both the Cambridge and Brookline Adult Ed centers. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about crossword construction but were afraid to ask. They both run a month long; the Cambridge one starts Wednesday next week, Brookline a week later on Thursdays. There’s still some space available for both. Links here: [Brookline] [Cambridge].
I will be giving a talk at Brookline High next Thursday, if you’re interested in that sort of thing too. Click here for tickets.
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
This one was awesome (but finishing was hard as balls for me). Put in ULEE right away thinking, “Geez, I’m sick of this guy.” Har-de-har-har-har. Also did not want to give up TEENMOM for Bristol. Had SMITH on 1A for a long time because I was thinking guns not booze. I had nuthin’ in the SE and pulled HESSE out of my ass based solely on E’s and S’s being good for final letters and the fact that Knulp sounded kind of German. Does that demonstrate my cleverness or BEQ’s? Finally caved and googled once – choosing “______ Thursday” as the clue I had the most legitimate reason for drawing a blank on. That’s right – I know more about rap than religion. See you in hell! 😛
Too hard for me. Fun, of course, but then I used the Google to finish.
First time I’ve heard of DESI food. Mmm, chicken tikka masala. I had some fish masala last week. And I fell for the lettoral clue at 25A again.
Threw down MAH quickly and then crossed it at 12-Down with… THEHORA. It seemed so right!
Spent 15 minutes in that danged southeast corner.
I had WHEELS at 35-Down (even though boots attach to wheels, not the other way around). So, with -H-GE—–, I went for SHUGE NIGHT. Except for having JULIENNE, NACHOS and HESSE, that kept the entire corner a mystery ’til I, like The Hag, got help at 33-Down.
Speaking of school, you schooled me on this one. Well done. Just lots o’ names and words I didn’t know, all fairly clued; Straight, no chaser.
Funny that the long answers I knew (much respect to 40-A and 5-D), but it was the shorter stuff that toasted me.
Cool! I just signed up for the Cambridge class. Now off to practice making spitballs…
15A – The plural in the clue led me completely astray. I felt that the answer had to be a plural also … even though that didn’t jive with THE HORA (first answer) or CASH BAR at the end …
Got more of it than I expected, but still got jammed in the far NW and SE a bit. A few Reveals in each area cleared that up.
too bad I don’t live in Beantown any more, or i’d take your class. can you convince matt g. to teach one? — his pad is closer to where i relo’d in 2007.