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I’d be remiss if I didn’t remind you all that the great people over at Boswords and their two month long Themeless league starts up this coming Monday. John Lieb and his merry band of gangsters and pranksters are hosting a weekly Themeless puzzle competition written by some seasoned pros and some fresh up and coming talent. Should be a lot of fun. So if you like those sorts of things, and could use a bit more puzzle-socializing in your life, sign on up. Monday nights. What else are you gonna do? I mean, other than watch “Monday Night Football.” But that’s what yr. TV is for. Your computer is for this Boswords sorta thing. So yeah, I know these folk, they’re okay. Throw ’em a couple bills, will ya, and tell ’em Brendan sent ya.
Looking for more puzzles? The Hub Crossword (Sunday puzzles by me and Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon) and Marching Bands year six have begun. So if that To Do list needs even more puzzles, you know what to do.
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
Though I guess I should have inferred it from the 21A clue, 4D/21A was a Natick for me.
I do not understand the base of 49A. Take out the HINDI and you have GIBSONSG. What the heck is that? A guitar string?
Hmmm. I’m okay with the G-string reference, but a pony isn’t necessarily a baby horse, just a small horse, yes?
It’s a model of Gibson guitar- Angus Young uses one.
Yeah, what Matt Howe said. SG is an initialism for “solid guitar.” (I had to look it up.)
I also had to look up 19A, Dig a Pony, despite it being right in my wheelhouse. How have I never heard of that song?
Yeah, horses and ponies are different breeds of the same species. Both baby horses and baby ponies are called foals or colts. To call a baby horse a pony is kinda like calling a baby German shepherd a chihuahua.
My mission in life: to alert people to the fact that a Neuroscience Specialist’s best friend is going to have to be a frequent crossword solver.
I enjoyed it very much, Brendan…thank you!
Pete Townsend used a Gibson SG in the early days. Real workman’s axe. Jack Bruce played an SG bass.
OK. That’s the sort of obscure crap that BEQ sometimes tosses into his puzzles that drives me effing crazy.
such a sweet kittens. I love snow leopard.