![]() But the answer that finally got the Downs down there to fall was … a comics sound effect. Crosswordese retrieval skills were on point as I brought down ISERE off the "I" and then SILAS (never seen or read "Da Vinci Code," never will). ![]() I couldn't see DESKS in a library and I had no idea YALIEs sang like sheep, so … I got a few little answers. Love the SPY clue, actually.įrom there I could not get into the SE. Very tough clues on I'M READY (10D: "Let's roll!") and SPY (11D: Invasive plant) up there. And of course TOJO, who would've helped a lot, was still a Sony exec in my mind, so I abandoned that area for the center, which then got me IRENE DUNNE, which sorted the NE out pretty nicely. I figured the was a -STAN, but I wasn't sure which one. I thought the Hulk might be in a RAGE, but too few letters. KAL-EL, NEXT, and AGOG-that's what I had. NE proved much tougher, as I got ANEW up into there, but then couldn't get much to work, Across-wise or Down-wise, on first pass. This puzzle started with IOTA (wrong) at 1A: Minute bit, which was quickly fixed by crosswording's favorite fisherman, the EELER, and then I went through the NW without much trouble. So turning that particular corner was rough. And I've literally never heard of Jay SEAN until just now. ![]() Spent I don't know how long imagining that 5D: Japanese P.M executed in 1948 ( TOJO) was actually a clue about a former Sony exec (which is a clue you do see from time to time in crosswords, another four-letter Japanese name … I think my brain turned "P.M." into CEO and then just ignored the "executed" and "1948" parts … oh, and I still can't remember that Sony exec's name). Usually get stopped on names I just don't know, or that won't come to me, and that was certainly true today. ![]() My brain was foggy from a hard ten hours sleep, but I usually crush David Steinberg Friday puzzles, so I ended up feeling like I struggled, but with a pretty normal Friday time. ![]()
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