ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
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PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
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Crosswordese legend Lena Horne is dead; long live Lena in 38-Down or some such in puzzle grids henceforth. Let’s listen to “Stormy Weather” and reminisce how many stellar grids were held together with the glue that is L-E-N-A and/or H-O-R-N-E.
Share the puzzle. New one on Wednesday.
YAWP???? Really???
I liked this puzzle a lot … good stuff all around. SENSEI. I liked the sound of the crossing of MEASLES and MUSCLE SHIRT. Stuff like SYST and ENTR I didn’t care for, but the rest of the grid made up for it.
Stuff I didn’t get:
The left center, although some of my favorite stuff in this puzzle is there. I know there are two 3-letter inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood, and yet I only ever seem to be able to summon ROO’s name. Know of MAUS, but don’t know my chapter titles. HYBRID TRUCK is a great clue/answer pair (had ???RIDTRUCK). SPLEEN – didn’t know it but won’t soon forget it.
The crossing of ILEXES and ARIOSE and NIXIE … any random vowels would have sufficed.
I question whether the SW was reasonable. Could be sour grapes from a DNF, but I couldn’t get a foothold because of proper noun acrosses and very vague cluing on the downs.
yawp (yôp)
@John,
Home > Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary
intr.v., yawped, yawp·ing, yawps.
To utter a sharp cry; yelp.
To talk loudly, raucously, or coarsely.
n.
A bark; a yelp.
Loud or coarse talk or utterance: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world” (Walt Whitman).
[Middle English yolpen, possibly variant of yelpen. See yelp.]
Owl.
The only time I’ve ever seen spleen used to mean anger is in “Everything Is Illuminated”.
One of the characters is a Russian to English translator who constantly butchers English by using obscure synonyms (often for a different sense of the word) with consistently hilarious results. e.g. “Why must you spleen me so!?!”
Well, I know that now … and in every previous case where I’ve tried to crack a puzzle with OWL instead of ROO. It’s just one of those “gets me every time” things where the right answer refuses to surface as I go through POOH, KANGA, PIGLET, EEYORE, RABBIT, CHRISTOPHER FRICKEN ROBIN, A.A.M., etc.
The phrase that comes to mind for me is “venting ones spleen”, as in expressing ones anger. The anecdote you shared is hysterical, BTW. Some nouns just don’t verb very well.
Really liked the MENFOLK clue and “Steele band?”.
I didn’t think I would finish this but managed to eke it out. SW was pretty tough. Great puzzle, and harder for me than either of last weekend’s NYT.
I concur on these 2!
Never would have solved this one if I hadn’t known 6D. Fine, fine film.
@BEQ, FWIW the Across Lite set up here still doesn’t work. The file seems to be fine, though, as you can click on the [THEMELESS MONDAY] link, click on Save instead of Open, and then open the file from your desktop or whatever. Works fine. But it used to open fine right here.