" (ERGO) 14A: The "height" part of a height phobia (ACRO) 15A: Have _ to pick (A BONE) 16A: Red Army leader Trotsky (LEON) 17A: Terrified Detroit baseball player? (WHITE TIGER) 19A: Vietnam neighbor (LAOS) 20A: Cuts off (SEVERS) 21A: Architect I.M. Adding a little more sparkle to this grid.Įverything - 1A: Cheryl of "Charlie's Angels" (LADD) 5A: Screwdriver liquor (VODKA) 10A: "Logically, then. I could literally spend all day on Twitter. And then when they link to interesting articles that I have to go read. Yes, the status updates are, at most, 140 characters long, so it seems like you could just check in real quick and then go on with whatever you're doing, right? Where that strategy breaks down is when you follow a gazillion people, which is what I do.
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64A: Online status update limited to 140 characters ( TWEET).
48A: Went off course, nautically ( YAWED).The word "strolls" can lead to a lot of synonyms, but it's Monday, so the clue takes us straight to the one we need. 38A: Strolls down to the saloon ( MOSEYS).Of course, a late 70s pop culture reference is always a good start for me. 1A: Cheryl of "Charlie's Angels" ( LADD).12D: Looks that lovers make ( GOO-GOO EYES).3D: Fast food pickup site ( DRIVE-THRU WINDOW).But Jeff made it work, so hats off to him. Why? Because it means each down entry has to run through two theme answers and that's a substantial constraint. This here is a pretty fancy Monday, wouldn't you say? Simple, clever theme, straightforward cluing, some crosswordese to help you get a foothold, a little sparkle here and there and then, bam! Two 15s in the downs! Wow! We don't see that very often. 58A: Jealous San Francisco baseball player? ( GREEN GIANT).39A: Depressed Miami football player? ( BLUE DOLPHIN).33A: Embarrassed Carolina football player? ( PINK PANTHER).17A: Terrified Detroit baseball player? ( WHITE TIGER).Theme: Emotional Athletes - Familiar phrases that start with a color are defined in relation to sports teams. How about one more big THANK YOU for everything and we'll call it good. Joon Pahk is A-Maz-Ing and it's so much fun to watch one of CrossWorld's denizens making a big splash. And finally, if you haven't been watching Jeopardy the past several days, you really must start. I'm absolutely thrilled that they included me (thanks, Amy, for sending them my way!). It's a story about people who have found hobbies they're passionate about. First, next time you're in the grocery store, check out the November issue of Oprah Magazine. I hope to see some of you there next year.Ĭouple quick things before I ride off into the sunset. It was really fun to try to express how special the ACPT is. I think my favorite post over the life of this blog has to be the wrap-up of last year's ACPT. That really was the whole point of the blog when we started it. I hope the Crosswordese 101 lessons have been useful and that other aspects of the blog have increased your enjoyment of puzzles. It was great fun blogging with Rex and Amy for a while and when I took it over myself you all stayed, which was awesome. So now I'm feeling a little nostalgic and thinking about all that we've been through here at LACC. If anyone starts up a new LAT blog, please let me know and I'll do what I can to get the word out. There are other crossword blogs out there (links are in the sidebar). And there's something completely unsatisfying about posting a half-assed attempt at a crossword blog every day knowing that people are, ya know, reading it and everything.
Part of my reason for giving it up is that I just don't have the time to do it right. Also, since I started back to work full-time, I definitely haven't spent as much time on the blog as I used to and I think that shows. It's not even really that doing the blog takes up all that much time, it's just that having the obligation every day has started to wear on me. We've had some fun, haven't we? But I'm ready to do some other things with my blog time, like constructing puzzles, solving puzzles, and non-puzzle-related things like working out, reading books and, oh yeah, paying attention to my children. I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed sharing the puzzle with you and how much I appreciate all of you who have made this blog a community. When I decided to go ahead and make the announcement, I considered waiting until the end of the month, or the end of the year, or the next ACPT … but you know what? It's not going to get any easier the longer I put it off. It's something I've been thinking about for quite a while now. Folks, there really isn't an easy way to do this so I'm just going to come right out and say it.
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