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Some bach compositions crossword5/16/2023 I paused at ENRAPT, too, but I wasn’t all mad and stuff. I do know to offer BRITS milk instead of cream. Loose tea with all its paraphernalia and the Heat-the-Filtered-Water-to-Almost-A-Boil rules make me feel dumb and unsophisticated. Still, I'm intimidated by tea connoisseurs. Liked SNOB crossing TEAHOUSE, a cross that I know I'm reading too much into. I kept checking the top of the grid to make sure it said "Wednesday" and not "Thursday." Very early on, I was seeing the sextet of three down black squares as little "subs," but obviously had to abandon that since half of'em come after the word. So, like Jesse, I finally fit the reveal by realizing that the perimeter words can be merged with SUB. "Birthday cake" and "Uzi," "rainbow" and "toilet paper" …Īnd I also paused about the reveal, first thinking that the DUES/STANCE, SIDE/MARINE parts merge with each other, but the URBAN and TRACT islands kept interfering. The game of coming up with pairs like this could be really fun. Before I even reached that point, though, I had a mess with "Natty G" for NAT GEO.īest part of your write up was the "lute" and "popular" not being allowed to appear in the same sentence. So I was just not gonna get this mysterious B _ TSIL place that natives call it. Rex – me, too, for "leotard" first, but I was not able to sit and glare at BOURREE with you because I had "tds" for ADS and never thought to check that. And Rex's theory of female constructors building themed puzzles continues to receive validation with the current double-header. Also want to point out that we still haven't seen a themeless Wednesday this year. Really enjoyed Rex's note on the oxymoronic "popular lutists" clue. I didn't know ENBANC, BOURREE or ESSENES, but the crosses were straightforward enough. If you go back and fill in the perimeter answers right away, the interior falls quickly. I probably just got lucky seeing the theme within 30 seconds of solving, but this was far below typical Wednesday time for me (7 and change). That probably would've made the theme better, but I'm pretty sure most people here saw what was going on. Like adding "written in cursive" somewhere in the clue to 45D. It would've been easy enough to make the clues wacky "?" descriptions that included the common words. It's not a great theme by any means, but it certainly isn't confusing or unclear what is happening. The theme is pretty straightforward: "Sub" merges with a common word to answer the clue. I got to 37A, saw "goes underwater," and put in submerges, I stopped there, read some of the perimeter clues and their crosses, and filled in the whole border. I guess I just had a different experience solving this than Rex. I don't know who's being quoted there, but yes, fun clue, and with crosswordese like ENO, a new clue is always welcome. Patrick: "I liked the clue for ENO" ( 25A: Composer of music "as ignorable as it is interesting"). and honestly I think the theme is neat" (though when pressed she agreed that the revealer didn't make much sense). Lena: "it's impressively open grid for a weds. I asked some of my friends to say nice things about this puzzle, since I appear to be incapable. And to have the obscure Frenchism sitting under ENBANC, that's a pont trop loin, mes amis. among lutists? Lutenists or whatever they're called? Louts? We are badly, perhaps fatally, stretching the meaning of the word "popular" here. They shouldn't be allowed anywhere near each other. Those words have nothing to do with each other. I'm sorry, I'm still stuck on the very existence of BOURRÉE in this puzzle. Had WAWA / LISA for ECHO / EMAC, and was happier. Had LEOTARD instead of UNITARD (11D: Acrobat's wear). RAPT ( 47D: Totally absorbed), so that was weird. 'Cause it's a disaster as is.Ĭouldn't pick a CITRON out of a line-up. ![]() Honestly, one of the grid doctors or Shortz himself had an Obligation to tear out that entire NE corner, from BOURRÉE up (at a minimum) and redo it. I don't understand this puzzle or what it thinks it's doing or what its idea of "entertainment" is. ENBANC over BOURRÉE pretty much says it all, but LSTS crossing ELIHU says a little more, and then EMAC (!) ESSENES STAGG ouch ouch ouch. And why are the answers on the margins, then? What does that have to do with " SUBMERGES"? Baffling. ![]() but that doesn't make sense either, so I guess Jesse's right? The idea of mentally supplying a prefix is being framed as a "merge"? Dreadful. what? Is that right? I thought maybe (Maybe) the idea was that the SUB edges MERGE into each other. My friend Jesse just suggested "You merge sub with the word in the grid, I guess." Uh. That is, I don't get the "merges" part of SUBMERGES. I don't think I even understand the theme.
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