Continuing my current mini-trend of including three songs per write-up: The obvious evocation is of Columbus’ 1492 ships, but none of those is three letters long. Hm? Is this Wynken, Blynken, and Nod? Hang on while I check … yes. When I had DISH for 3d DIRT, I was worried there was going to be a blatant home duplication. It’s like a little ol’ dab of superglue in an otherwise smooth grid. Etymology: Middle English eyt, from Old English *ēget, by-form of īggoth, igeoth, from īg island. Not on The Beatles ( aka the White Album) rather, it’s on Let it Be. I see what’s intended, but does it work well enough? ![]() ![]() Not really sold on either the clue or the entry. I’m reminded of Spike Jonze’s iconic video for “Praise You” Clue threw me, but it makes perfect sense. To be explicit, if you don’t see-or ignore-the UMs in the normal-seeming theme entries, you get the wackified answers to the clues. I also appreciate how the clue evokes ‘solid investment choice’-a distinctly more in-the-language formulation. That’s admittedly a more obscure and less elegant approach than the one here. Not the angle I was expecting the revealer to take, instead anticipating something along the lines of disfluency removal software and speech recognition technology. Was initially mystified by the theme, but I figured it out by the time I got to the third and final of the modified entries. Margit Christenson’s Los Angeles Times crossword - pannonica’s write-up Why did I assume we were talking about sports here (tennis, perhaps)? I think the clue is referring to a stage play. Today I Learned: Bengaluru is another name for Bangalore. Why did I assume we were trying to warm something up here? Maybe because I just took some chicken out of the freezer for tonight’s dinner. Yes, I know it’s referring to compact discs. …because she puts all her wealth in Certificates of Deposit? Okay, okay. Great long fill, too: BAD ACTORS, SLEPT IN, STUNNER, FOOTLOOSE. And the theme entries themselves are fun. I love the consistency here with all four-letter words and each word being split the same way. Theme: Synonyms for “loop” are found at both ends of familiar phrases. Prasanna Keshava’s Universal crossword, “Encircled”-Jim P’s review I don’t love random European vowel-y rivers ( ELBE: River through Bohemia), I think Milton Friedman is a boring angle for ECON (2D), and Claude AKINS (48D) feels pretty irrelevant (actors from the sixties rarely hit for me), but no other complaints from me! IMAGINE THAT (46A: “Well, there’s a surprise!”) was a simply delightful Weintraub-esque entry and “Dance around?” for HORA was lovely. So it’s either a generational thing or that clue is pretty subtly risque. To me, GET SOME (41D: Find satisfaction, slangily) means get laid. of Pelicans” (44D) for THE NBA didn’t feel very tricky because Pelicans was capitalized. What else? The trickery of the clue “Grp. I did not immediately know LOAD (25D: Important calculation for a weightlifter) but I know that Stella is a lifter, and I love when constructors inject themselves into the puzzle. ![]() There were two other French terms in this, BETE NOIRE (1A: What’s not to like?) and AMOUR (50A: Affaire de couer). This is because that newspaper was a plot point in the (incredible!) book Red White & Royal Blue which I just read. despite knowing zero French, LE MONDE (37A: Daily in Paris). I thought the clue was far too easy / teach-y, fwiw, but glad to see it! Other no-crossings easy gets for me were KIM Possible (30A) and…. My first entry was BOX BRAIDS (17A: Black hairstyle with square-shaped sections), which I put in cackling because I just tweeted about this as a crossword entry. Stella Zawistowski’s SeptemNew York Times puzzle
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