Actually, all the fill down there could be totally reworked, and maybe should be. whose name is way way way more familiar to me) and then just change MOONS to MOODS? You'd get I DID at 63A, which I like better than INIT, even if I SEE is very nearby (so you'd get two "I _" phrases in close proximity). But if you needed one, why not go with the FDA (an agcy. when possible-it's just an alphabet soup, and no one's ever happy to see those answers. That's the Federal Trade Commission, right? Ugh, I would avoid fed agcys. I got slowed down a few times, nowhere worse than at the very end, by a cruddy little federal agcy.
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I mean, if you need him, by all means use him, but if you don't. And I'm saying this as someone who (sorta kinda) knew the name (stored it away after all the obits rolled out). You mean I gotta endure UVEA and EFILE and SNOCAT because you desperately wanted to be the first to drop AVICII? On a Tuesday? Feels weird. it feels like it was crammed down in that corner just 'cause. I am always happy to see the puzzle branch out in terms of its regular fields of interest, and AVICII's popularity is certainly sufficiently substantial (if not with the typical NYTXW-solving crowd), but. there's also MT ADAMS (what the hell?), but at least there, the clue pretty much hands you the answer ( 50A: Washington peak named after the second U.S. It's the only answer I can imagine even a casual solver's not knowing. His name is a hilarious outlier, compared to everything else in the grid. It's weird to introduce him to the NYT solving world on a Tuesday (as I suspected, AVICII is a debut appearance). I really want to question AVICII, who was a huge force in the musical world, it's true, and whose name was all over even non-music media a few years ago, after his untimely death, but I would stake my vast blogging empire on a bet that a significant majority of NYT solvers will have little to no idea who he is.
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It's a functioning theme, just fine for a Tuesday.Īs for the fill, it was OK, though it's kinda wobbly or at least questionable in a number of places. CUP OF COCOA is a slightly contrived answer (I mean, BOWL OF JELL-O is a thing, but. Missed the fairway *and* put it in the sand, but still got down in 4. I think the revealer ought rather to have highlighted the fact that the first words of the themers trace a theoretical Par 4 hole performance as one might really play it, from the TEE to the ROUGH to a BUNKER to the GREEN and then in the CUP in 4. I don't know about the cluing on the revealer-I guess the GOLF BALL "can be found" in those places, some (rare, short-lived times, in the course of play), but the ball cannot actually be "found" there now, so the cluing is weird. I think the themers themselves were all so transparent that it was easy get a toehold in every section, and so I covered ground really quickly, in general. Set a personal Tuesday best despite multiple wrong answers and assorted sputterings. Don't know if I'm still on some kind of speed-solving high from this past weekend of tournament competition, but man did I smoke this one.