They do lead from the horse’s mouth though, unlike bits which ideally remain where they’re put until they’re removed. Everything you say seems calculated to take the fun out of doing the puzzle. He's a producer/exec behind the show named Mike Richards. The clue on 11D SOLVENT is flat-out wrong -- it is quite possible to have debts and to be solvent; insolvency occurs when the amount of your debts exceeds your assets. Thank you, @Brad for a wonderful Sunday puz. Add “in Buffalo” and the clue would have been fine. And for lettin it all hang out, on yer debut. LOL@anonymous 1:15 AMWelcome aboard! Not awful, but not awe-inspiring either.Okay, so maybe that's too high a bar. Part of what kept me engaged was the suspense of wondering how close to the censorship line we were going to get—especially with “What happens in the stand-up show...”Agree that much of the PPP was pretty brutal, but since I long ago decided that’s what Google is for, no guilt, I tend not to find it terribly upsetting. Sounds like you would have enjoyed the NYTXW more before you were born, in the Maleska era... Well I guess the fact that I had TAB for 'acid container' says something about me, huh? Fun Sunday, liked it more than @Rex did. with “Dr. Period. Medicare eligible juvenile here, I guess. I don't think my last post went through just now:)I agree with @Frantic and others: the constructor's notes are wonderful. www.boswords.org, I found the puzzle mostly fun and smiled at all the theme answers. Given what the NYT is like these days, whoever comes after Will Shortz will likely want to “disrupt” the x-word puzzle. It's nice to feel no pressure coming up with anything new to say; others have already said it all. Get a taste of virtual tournament fun and then when this whole pandemic baloney has subsided, you can maybe venture into the wonderful world of 3-dimensional crossword tournaments! You have to give extra points for that one; it's SO much better than that ugly bit of crosswordese. Kind of a nice leadoff homage to the great TREBEK. Just ask anyone from northern Ohio, especially Cleveland or Ashtabula, or from Cleveland's infamous snowbelt or secondary snowbelt, or Erie, PA, or Buffalo, NY, for that matter. As noted Erie clue is dead wrong which didn’t help this disappointing Sunday. Wow on several levels. Regards, The Crossword Solver Team If you have a moment, please use the voting buttons (green and red arrows) near the top of the page to let us know if we're helping with this clue. Tee-hee, tee-hee. I liked this very much! here, but that he hasn’t seen the movies and doesn’t know MORIA makes me think he hasn’t read the books. Hand up for almost breaking the eyebrow bone from arching it so hard at the “the” in the 77A clue. I had many chuckles. @thefogman be careful what you wish for. But we do need harder puzzles generally. with names, either you know them or you don't, and even if it's a name you can guess at, it's just not a very satisfying reveal compared to the ones that involve vocabulary, root words, puns/wordplay, etc. )There are sure to be some who liked this, and I don't mean to REIN on their BERET...just not my cuppa (as one of you likes to say )Not a wrestling enthusiast, so RIC Flair was new to me. On those grounds, I am not sure how today's puzzle played out.In the end, I guess my reaction is closer to that of Lewis than the others who commented above. I like this guy! @Barbara S. 8:42 AMThx for the "Timid Frieda" vid link; what a delightful song, and what a talented group of actor/singers. Fully re-covered. He wasn't interested in a honey-soaked heaven. This was just off of the first S as 27A had to be SEES. I thought it was kinda clever that after all the nudity folks were FULLYCOVERED. Possibly I alone because I don't know anyone else my age who does this.I don't want "my" slang clued at me, any more than you in your youth wished to see "groovy" or "far out", or "sick jammination, soul sister" or whatever other linguistic crimes are lost to the ages.No "bae". Actual human bodies! @Blair - Pop Culture, Product Names, and other Proper Nouns. I join him in registering my disgust with LAR, among other lousy bits of fill. And anyway, is “nudist” even correct? tc ps...come on, Rex, "the bottomless pit" answer was clever! The puns may be a bit corny, but they were fun to figure out, no? As for the puzzle, I liked it. ), WINNING STREAK (59D: Victory in the annual nudist club 1K? He said he saw them, found them dull and forgettable. Agree with Rex's comments overall, but it seems a little strange that a literature professor would find MORIA, a major location in Lord of the Rings, to apparently be off limits. 2nd Moderna (Fri.) felt muy crappy yesterday (fever/chills/tired/achy) but am fine today except for the sore arm. @Anon7:44 - TREBEK has all the answers and reads them to us. Rex definitely has a point about old-time corniness combined with a certain amount of slog and less than sterling fill, and yet, and yet… I have to admit to chuckling over BOTTOMLESS PIT and WINNING STREAK. We're leaving four acres with extensive gardens and a huge lawn where we do all our own maintenance to having to put the trash outside the door, so it will be quite a change. I posted my lowest cumulative solve time for the week (out of 578 weeks of puzzling), beating my previous best by more than two minutes or almost 4.5%. Down clue that crossed those empty letters were names completely unknown to me. . Constructor: Brad Wiegmann Bottomless pit. REINs do not belong in a horse's mouth. TREBEK had all the questions!! In the words of Larry the Cable Guy, "That's funny right there, I don't care who you are." Wow, what a great Sunday puzzle! Cetus is in the region of the sky that contains other water-related constellations: is still open! Like, head drop?The allergy clue might have given me pause if I hadn’t just had to answer that COVID vaccine question about ever needing an EPIPEN. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” Gandalf. The movies are okay, but the books were a huge influence on my life. @RP: Always enjoy yer blog write-ups, pro and/or con. Ditto. That definitely counts as a LOTR deep cut. But as you see, had CrITS for CHITS, and couldn't get off that. Dull Thursdays I usually cheat on because tawdry gimcracks bore me, and Friday and Saturday are challenging enough I usually can't judge them as boring.But the big Sunday grids with dozens of finicky little 3 and 4 letter ENOS LAR EST ILE DEN EPA....it is to vomit. And it's aBREAST to the last themer. Pop Sensation — Vintage Paperbacks and Other Cultural Detritus. Re TREBEK: There's a whole slew of people lined up to fill in as temporary Jeopardy! I once heard a lecture on this, based on Augustine's *De Genesi ad litteram*, and I asked if Augustine considered the possibility that Adam and Eve were able to have sex but chose not to, in those few hours of paradisiacal existence, because one or the other had a headache. I actually thought “an oddie but a goodie’ could be a thing. I thought this was a fine debut. Medium. I liked.....VIBES? Single. I approach the puzzle differently. every crossword is going to contain something somebody isn't very familiar with, that's just the way the cookie crumbles. Hope to see many more from Brad. The fundamental physics of nuclear forces is an enormously complicated subject. This was an incredibly easy week of NYT puzzles for me. I thought the puzzle was fine, albeit cornball in the theme answers. @judmen - You seem to have your YIN and yang in a muddle. Stop. Synonyms for perspective include viewpoint, point of view, standpoint, view, outlook, position, stance, stand, angle and slant. i can understand not enjoying the proper noun stuff - i just talked about this yesterday or the day before, i definitely find more pleasure in "regular" words, because you can figure those out. No thinking, just mechanics. you seem to be focused on the "newness" of these pop culture-ish clues, so let me remind everyone that the hobbit was written in 1937 and lord of the rings in 1954. star wars came out in 1977. Windshield wiper brands? Looks like you have some issues you need to work out. I concede that every puzzle will, out of necessity, most likely have some of that unfortunate dreck - however to feature it so prominently and with such frequency just seems to do a disservice to the whole concept of a crossWORD puzzle (you know - the “words” part of it). Some person's first name from a show on Bravo?? My eyes popped out of my head because his (um) thing...was saluting. YouTube some of his promos. Comic strip. I had a great time doing this puzzle. It’s a puzzle type we’ve seen many, many times, and I’m not sure there was sparkle enough in the themers to be a complete justification. NENE is a child? @Joe Dipinto 12:32 AMThx for the Wiegmann article. Then, using the crosses, I will learn things that are outside my wheelhouse. Everyone had the answers, right there on the board. Learn English free online at English, baby! My beef is with the PPP-inundated fill. I also circled the Balrog clue. Anyway...I don't mind nudity. Harmless, and some of it is fun, but for me it has every danger of growing old quickly. That's an eternity. Then there's DEBONE.Har! The themers did nothing, nada, zip, nil for me....I just went about my business and try to guess what some big ass kahuna nudist might be doing.So did I like it?....you bet your sweet bippy I did. Anyhow, this one was not for me. BARELY MANAGING (24A: Leadership style of the nudist club president? You heard it here first. She'll no doubt be in one of the "closets".___yd 0Peace ~ Empathy ~ Teamwork ~ Kindness to all . guess that would have made for a rather short, boring story ;) anyway, after that i was able to fill in the rest and finish. I think it was at Land's End Beach. It's no more juvenile or dated than Agard's pot-smoking Sunday puzzle of some moons back, and the themers all land nicely, imo. But it doesn't describe where nuclear energy comes from. Gandalf's fight with the Balrog in MORIA is a high point of the books as our intrepid team needs to continue the quest without the help of magic (except for one pesky ring.) Or maybe the seemingly extreme reaction to something that is (at least to me) so unimportant.I have come to accept solving puzzles whose PPP turns me off. And @Lewis...you made me look at Xwordinfo (which I never do) to read up on Brad. group. Last I checked (including the OED and Google Translate), a nene is a Hawaiian goose, and child in Spanish is Nino/Nina (with tildes over the second n). @Pablo 10:51Posted before reading, glad to see someone else had carnaK!Also, happy downsizing! Congenial, compassionate, quick on his feet, not bad at schmoozing -- and intellectually he walks the walk, making him a pretty convincing successor IMHO. again it was the bottom rows of the puzzle where i finally started to break it open. Here's hoping for a little more challenge this next week.p.s. (Har! What could possibly go wrong?Another Sundee, another lackluster theme. It works for me! Colorful debut. That was the whole gimmick. ), BOTTOMLESS PIT (4D: Where the nudist club orchestra plays its concerts? and frankly, excluding rap from "the classics" and putting it in the same category as "low literacy levels" is white supremacy talking. Hard to pick my favorite because they were all funny to me. I needed my wife's help with this one, but I was a bit distracted and probably gave up too easily. I actually liked THATTOO--feels like a solid conversational phrase, kinda looks like TATTOO (THATTOO TATTOO!). Maybe a second version of the well-known Irish folk song, which tells the story from sweet Molly’s point of view?Speaking of the Irish, today’s passage comes from Colum McCann, born Feb. 28, 1965.“What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday. theme, at least 96A, SORE POINT, was not clued with utter vulgarity, as "Adam's nightmare," or Adam's nightmare after a sunny day (so here, outraged at the suggestion, I provide it). That's not always the case with themes like this.On the plus side, it was over relatively quickly. Those SORE POINTs aside, thought puz was pretty darn good. Wow. For that, well, it's a long list of people, but it was Becquerel who discovered radioactivity, the Curies who studied new radioactive elements, Rutherford who carried out nuclear reactions, Hahn who discovered nuclear fission and Meitner who figured out what was happening there (where uranium bombarded with neutrons could split into smaller nuclei, thus releasing lots of energy, and more neutrons), Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the husband of Marie and Pierre's daughter, for letting the world know that this could create a chain reaction, and then there was a whole host of people who figured out how to harness that, including all the people involved in the Manhattan Project. Thinking that being a Lit prof requires one to have read LOTR is beyond beyond the pale. We had the big house, tons of outdoor space backing up to extensive woodlands...did love to garden...have managed herbs and veggies on my balcony...and it’s fun and healthy not to get in the car every time you need milk or a bottle of wine, and to be able to walk to restaurants with outdoor dining, also PT, camera store, pet shop, library, bank; we can drop the car off for service and walk home, etc...on balance a good trade. I used to love reading your comments but have stopped because they are so angry and mean. Gene F. @Colin - Damn, I worked hard on that one, didn't bother to check my anatomy. Many people have noted the irony that it was the paper, where he argued that electromagnetic radiation (aka "light" but understood generally as it includes also radio waves and gamma rays) is carried by quanta that we call photons, that won him the Nobel.
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