![]() ![]() I’m convinced that if you randomly stuck this clue in front of me, I’d get it within a second 99 times out of 100. I hang my head with deep shame as I confess that I wanted GREEN HORNET as the answer to instead of SHADOW. And it never occurred to me that Al GORE would be a. I’d much rather see The Anderson Caper than The Anderson Tapes. CAPER seems like a better choice for than TAPES. There were other rough patches, like where I wanted ESTEEMED instead of EMINENT for. Had I seen that trap in advance, I could have plunked down ALOU, the most wonderful four-letter, three-vowel surname in all of professional sports. Or that I was fooled into thinking of the gemstone with the clue instead of baseball. Or that meant nothing to me as a clue for AUSSIE. Caan! It didn’t help that JAVA was my first (inane) thought for instead of COCA. It started at 1-Across, when I could see Scott CAAN of “Hawaii Five-0” but couldn’t think of his name for the life of me. Oof, it felt like I never got much traction in solving this beast. Don’t show up uninvited to Alanis Morissette’s house or you’ll never hear the end of it. Who says product placement is a creature of the last decade or two? More accurately, the grid features four terms ending with a word that can also be a computer problem: You think you have technology problems! Today’s puzzle is infested with four different computer glitches. ![]() Hartman’s CrosSynergy/Washington Post crossword, “Calling the Geek Squad” – Sam Donaldson’s review Do the theme and the stacked 7s offset the short clunkers for you? Without those crosswordese blights, I’d have rated this one above the 4-star mark. Lowlights: HANA DUZ EDO (this is a sequel to Debbie Does Dallas), ANIL, SSRS, AES, ALTAI, EELY, and YMA-a whole lotta crosswordese. Highlights: HURRAY, RAN HARD, MIXED UP, THE JETS, and AUDUBON. Non-Catholics may not know what a mass card () is I know them as those little cards, sometimes laminated, handed out at a funeral and giving the name/dates of someone who died along with an inspirational verse or bible quote and perhaps a stock religious picture. All the components were familiar to me except for the high sign. It’s a high-energy, high-test, high-class theme. You’ve got ENERGY BAR, ROAD TEST, ART CLASS, MASS CARD, JUMP BALL, and TIMES SIGN, six fairly lively entries unto themselves even without the double-barreled HIGH+ action. This makes each of those theme answer words a “ HIGH” TAIL. NY Times crossword solution, 10 3 12 1003Ĭrisp theme: Six two-word phrases are made of words that form new phrases/compound words when preceded by the word HIGH. ![]()
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