#Sundance sweetie crossword clue tv#
If my wife and I are doing cryptics in "The Listener" (NZ), and she's reading the clue, as soon as I hear "Who played.?" I groan audibly and then shout "Next!" Non-American TV is a (near) complete mystery to me. You started losing me at "1990s," and by the time you got to "sitcom," I was absolutely lost.
īest answers in the puzzle: FREELOAD ( 58A: Sponge), WHEELIE ( 82D: Something to pop), and CALIBER ( 88A: Bore). I'm calling foul on 26D: Place for an opinion (op-ed), for reasons I don't think I even have to explain. All these animals (and CAGER) are words that become familiar and unremarkable to you over time if you do enough crossword puzzles. The crossword zoo continues with the EFT ( 69A: Young newt) and ORANGS ( 71A: Long-armed Sumatrans) and CAGER, which is not an animal, but is clued as such ( 70D: Bull or Buck, e.g.). There were some great crosswordy words in today's puzzle, like ACRE ( 1A: Third Crusade site), which I always like to see in its non-unit-of-land costume, and OCELOT ( 57A: Pet animal of Salvador Dali), the clue to which provided me with OCELOT trivia I will not soon forget. I'm not sure how I feel about this inconsistency. In AcrossLite format, "TRAILHEAD" and "COUNTERTOP" are written as single words, which looks and feels like an error, though I guess that's technically how you write those words. This does not mean the puzzle was difficult - for all that the theme slowed me down a bit, there was nowhere in the grid that I ever got stuck.įOOD COURT CASE CLOSED (23A) CIRCUIT BOARD FOOT LOCKER (25A) ROOM SERVICE ROAD HAZARD (43A) LIGHT TOUCH SCREEN DOOR (55A) BELL PEPPER SPRAY PAINT (73A) BRUSH FIRE WALL STREET (82A) SMART CAR POOL PLAYER (104A) PIANO BAR GRAPH PAPER (106A) TRAIL HEAD MASTER CARD (36D) COUNTER TOP DOLLAR SIGN (46D) But today's weren't big at all (every one = 10 letters), and movement from one section to another was more deliberate and purposeful than more standard Sunday puzzles. On Sundays, I like to go crashing into open parts of the puzzle when I solve those big theme answers. This made it hard to blow through the grid. Otherwise, this puzzle's theme is clever, and tricky in that you have to build the answer from crosses - it's unlikely you could just look at the blanks in the clue and get it.
What in the world is a "BOARD FOOT?" OMG, when I google I get a glossary of lumber terms.Ī unit of cubic measure for lumber, equal to one foot square by one inch thick.Īm I alone in not knowing this? All the other two-word phrases in this chain are very familiar, common, in- the- (nonlumberjack)- language phrases, that BOARD FOOT stands out like a thumb that is sore after you tried to drive a nail through a BOARD FOOT and hit your thumb instead. I got the theme easily, but I have to say that if I had started with 25A: CIRCUIT BOARD _ ROOM SERVICE (foot locker) instead of 23A: FOOD COURT _ CIRCUIT BOARD (case closed), I would have been completely flummoxed. At any rate, I wonder if other people experienced similar bafflement. I think my explanation and his subsequent message indicating he'd figured it out crossed in the mail. Got a frantic email from the a senior editor at a Major publication last night asking me to explain the theme of today's puzzle. Chain is composed of two-word phrases that interlock - FOOD COURT, COURT CASE, CASE CLOSED, etc.
THEME: "Chain Reaction" - theme clues are part of a long word chain that links all theme answers.
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