![]() ![]() ![]() I needed a little more information to get the rest (and there’s one that I didn’t know at all). Here is where I confess that I did my best to guess each song without looking at crosses, relying simply on my own hard-won karaoke wisdom, and came up with a semi-respectable few: the headbangers, Don Lockwood, the chairman of the board. Stock has taken seven songs that might be in your repertoire, at 24-, 47-, 69-, 92- and 116-Across and 3- and 33-Down, and clued them with a “bar” pun as well as the band that most famously sang each one. (Do you? Do you have a go-to song? Mine is “Heart of Glass.” I practice it regularly and I am READY for the return of karaoke.) Mr. This is one of those title-dependent themes that is a piece of cake to explain, at least as long as you all know what a karaoke bar is. anointment, if you will.ĩ3D: “More elements like this, please,” I imagine constructors thinking when they need a letter run like YTTRIUM.ġ06D: Speaking of letter runs, ELMST was a nightmare to figure out (and then, a □). I’m open to suggestions.Ĩ7D: I had “unguent” here, which seems to be roughly equivalent to UNCTION but with less religious overtone - ointment vs. The facepalm (□) will do until we get one that includes upturned hands and eyes ✋ □ □. If you’ve done a “little lifting,” you might have just PILFERED something small.ħ1D: Funny that there’s no emoji yet that perfectly encapsulates OY VEY. You’d think that would be a useful run of letters.)ĢD: The laws around this are more complicated than I thought, but a bank robbery, for example, might count as “heavy lifting” (you might even have a spotter to look out for the police). (Interesting that JEN Psaki showed up in a puzzle in 2017, when she was working with President Barack Obama, yet PSAKI hasn’t cracked a grid yet. Ergo, a dilemma is a struggle because it’s a choice between two real choices, something that might help me remember this entry for next time.ĥ1A: Keep in mind, our constructor is 24 years old I don’t know if that makes this clue sting more or less, but it certainly makes me clutch the last of my graying IDEALS to my wizened heart.ħ6A: It feels as though LLOYD Austin became the secretary of defense a day ago, but there’s no reason we can’t have current events. LEMMA was first clued, back in 1964, as a “Premise of a syllogism” it comes from the Greek, for “ something taken,” as in taken for granted as true. I also noted some loving little constructory touches like ETCETC above CHACHA that made the fill nice and vibrant.Ģ3A: So much weather these days, am I right? This clue sneaked up on me - “high winds,” as in woodwinds, as in FLUTES.Ĥ4A: A little more math, although this term applies to other subjects. Examples include WATER (which can be kept in a well), CAMEO (a bas-relief carving, not a walk-on role), TALC (to powder one’s posterior), AIRBALL (nothing, no net!) and so on. ![]() Very shaggy puns today, my favorite kind - congenial shaggy dogs with good comic timing. It’s a shame that we can’t all solve this rocking puzzle at the bar waiting for our turn at the microphone, but it’s a good excuse to knock the rust off those pipes and belt a few notes in the comfort of your own home, or maybe outside on a frosty night. Stock’s third Times puzzle, as well as his third Times puzzle this year, which is pretty unusual and puts a lot of pressure on him to maintain a frenetic pace. A nice bit of symmetry that I wouldn’t have noticed myself were it not for our constructor, Matthew Stock, who teaches algebra - makes sense! - in St. 21, 2021, and you have before you a 21x21 grid. SUNDAY PUZZLE - Among the many things that people might miss when they don’t read this column: Today is Feb.
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