The odd couple zip gnarls barkley5/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this case, the "A" gave me TSA, which gave me PATINA (9A: Film about the Statue of Liberty?) (which I'd just seen in a puzzle immediately prior to starting the NYT), which gave me POLOS (9D: Tops of golf courses?), and I was on my way. The upside of wrongness - it occasionally leads you in the right direction. MAD PROPS, for sure.Ĭouldn't do much with the NW and so went over to the NE, where I flubbed 18A: Preparatory stage (LEAD-UP) by entering PHASE I. Even something as forgettable as T-BALL is enlivened by having its pals C BATTERY (36D: Common toy go-with) and E*TRADE (59A: Dot-com with an asterisk in its name) in the grid. A nice, tough, 11+-minute workout for me. I guess you gotta get that stuff in before it gets too dated. ![]() ![]() Gnarls Barkley-era) slang to cram into one puzzle. MAD PROPS (1A: Big-time kudos) and OH, SNAP (16A: Response to a good dig) in the same grid!? That's a wicked lot of 2006 (i.e. In short, not an ELKES in sight, and despite being harder than yesterday's puzzle, this one was much, much more lovable. Very workable grid leads to astounding smoothness, with all the difficulty located in the (devilish) cluing. 72 words is pretty high for a late-week puzzle, but when a grid is this clean, this fresh, it's easy to see the value and upside of a somewhat high word count. ![]()
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