This clue neatly honors Sojourner Truth for making a speech about important ideas while referring instead to a work by another writer so as not to imply that AIN’T I A WOMAN is verbatim from Truth. A fellow constructor tipped me off a while back that Truth’s famous speech probably ought not be referred to by that name, given that it comes from a transcription of the speech that might not accurately represent Truth’s own speech patterns. Some interesting points and highlights from this puzzle: So do we think C.C.’s being self-referential in starting this puzzle with CCS at 1-Across? I wouldn’t put it past her. Burnikel’s Los Angeles Times crossword - Stella’s write-up He was the spoiled rich kid in the Nancy comic strip, too.Ĭ.C. Did not know this, as I don’t think my local newspapers ran Katzenjammer Kids on the funny pages. Apparently fulling means “to shrink and thicken (woolen cloth) by moistening, heating, and pressing.” Did more than two readers of this blog already know that word and get it right away? That is a deep cut in English vocabulary. Most dictionaries don’t include this word, but American Heritage Dictionary tells us it’s someone working at a newspaper desk.
STANDING LIKE WONDER WOMAN SAY CROSSWORD TV
“Commanders”? Dudes… Have you never read nor seen on TV The Handmaid’s Tale? You could have chosen a much better name. I entirely forgot the Washington Football Team had finally chosen a new name, and that it was this.
Can’t say I’ve seen this exact word before, but who doesn’t like pinball? Tough one, eh? A striking grid to approach when it was blank-all that long fill bumping up against the nine-row diagonal line of blocks.įave fill: JUMP FOR JOY, the entirely-new-to-me BIDENOMICS, slangy SITCH(uation), ACTIVE DUTY military, a VASECTOMY clued as a, CLUE IN, FALL ISSUE (, as in the pages are bound into magazine form and the issue may run in the July-August-September period), PUTS ON HOLD (we hate being put on hold), “ UP IS DOWN,” JUICE BAR, Andrea DEL SARTO (subject of a Robert Browning poem), OSCAR BID, and Cyndi Lauper’s ode to masturbation, “ SHE BOP.”
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