![]() Today we're expecting it to be even hotter. Yesterday was 106 here in Sacramento with god-awful hot light winds. Got the theme at CINDERELLA STORY LAST PLACE and thought "hey, this is different and clever." Enjoyment ensued.ĮLS is my favorite golfer, CIAO is my favorite tata and I always welcome EROTICA DEPP. ![]() The puzzle.I started off not really liking it that much but it grew on me.Ĭount me as one that hates figuring out where the bouncing ball will take me. Second child.epidural from the moment I felt a little twinge. After 13 hours of labor in one of those fancy bedroom style delivery rooms, nurses crawling all over the bed trying to get Jordan turned around, doctor looking pathetically sad, he gently said to me "you know, epidurals are quite nice, you'll thank me later." They wheeled me into the OR faster than an SST. I much preferred the TSTRAP below.ġ2:35 AHI HAHA.Can't find one suitable DOOK. It was more challenging than cleaning the floor. The cats were none too pleased with me when I had to wash the black goo off their paws after they chose to romp through the kitchen that day. I learned something today - that the part of the piping that burst in our kitchen about a year ago that spewed an inch thick black coating of back wash from things that are TMI all over the kitchen floor was a PTRAP. (FYI, totally appreciated yesterday's infant feeding I liked that FER was in there along with SCANDIUM and POSITRON. Babies are far more likely to be nudged into the world before they think they are ready during August. Woe to the baby who is born in August when all the more experienced MDS are on vacay and those that remain are overwhelmed. The IN AND OUT crossing DUE DATE just reminded me of how impatient some MDS are about babies who hang out longer than that often miscalculated date. TMI tonight but that's what good puzzles do to me. It was just a random coincidence but I wasted some time trying to make sense of it. In the lower half there was none of that. Not only did the upper ones create the separate sub entries of LASTORY and TESTATE but each of those had the "places" LA and STATE embedded in them. I hate to prattle on but there was areal dichotomy in the theme entries of the two halves as well. I got a clean grid in the end with no cheating (research comes after solving) and as always got to learn something. Discovering the" handle" synonym list made it clearest of all. I was so convinced of WIELD's neutrality that after solving I had to check the Webster's definition to see for myself. The clues are straight up word association but I found them both difficult, PRELIM too. How about REPRIEVE right next to WIELDING. I couldn't make up my mind, are they going with pond scum or cinema? That LICK at the end had me seeing FLICK so bad that I actually questioned ELS which was where I started there in the first place. ![]() That was nothing compared to the late week ZONE from hell around OILSLICK. I fell for the ANAGRAM and SANTA clues (cliché alert) like a ton of bricks. The west side of the lower half wasn't bad but east of 42D there seemed to be nothing but problems' which is of course a good thing. I easily filled the upper half and then had to start from scratch. RATINE and HORST were the only entries I really had to work around. The upper and lower halves of this were like two separate puzzles. Not a bad puzzle, but one that I found grating, just because of its architecture and basic premise. though I could not have told you that before doing this write-up). Maybe I was thinking Fort Worth (which is weirdly where TCU actually is. Oh, and even though I was actually *in* Fort Collins this summer, I saw the clue 118D: Sch. wtf? I kept wanting GOES LONG for 34D: Runs for a long pass, say ( GOES DEEP), even though "long" is clearly already in the damn clue. Not much else was really beyond my ken today, except RATINÉ, which. I also booted LILI (wrote in GIGI) ( 70D: 1953 Leslie Caron film). I just had to pepper that area with short stuff until it started to cohere, which seemed to take forever. I don't associate "well" with the mere fact of WIELDING hence my initial answer. Everything was made worse by my having FIELDING instead of WIELDING at 64D: Handling well. By a long long long shot, the hardest part of the grid for me was the entire MADE A DIFFERENCE section (and thus the nearby DEAD SPOT section).
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