Easy, easy, sweet reveal of theme, suddenly a brick wall in SW, crumble and done. He was 28. I loved the puzzle, and loved the theme. But I accept that by skipping PROVO you get LONE. Challenging but doable once SKIP TOWN told you the trick. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced searchad free! Youve come to the right place! Kinda tough to get a toe-hold on the whole theme mcguffin at first, as the themers of course didn't initially match up with their clues. 7 "Justin, stop being a turd." Ive never heard of either, and DonSe/ElaiSe, or DonTe/ElaiTe etc. I used to think that Times solvers were thoughtful. IFC crossing with OH FUN did me in. OH FUN! Reading a book about Churchill at present which of course didn't give me Oldman, but I knew that. The cities used were random. So I thought - is there an OREL in Utah? Loved this one. How to watch the movie version, Elvira just gave Kylie Jenner a lesson on how to pay tribute with her Halloween costume, special issue dedicated to L.A.s stand-up comedy. It was completely unenjoyable for me. Keep in mind that the last-traded price is not necessarily the price at which your market sell order will be executed. What word was the clue looking for? Looking forward to next Thursday. An all-in-one breakfast meal. H/T The Wire. clues and a crutch for bad fill.-NBA as the "setting" for the Heat was bad the last time I saw it and is still bad clueing.-WDS is not good fill. (Wonder if you could find a way to create a theme around citrus ( looking at you down there in the SE, Ugli). Sandwiches are one of the easiest things to make for breakfast. Perfect reveal.Got hung up at Provolone looking at the letters I had for a long time, thinking it should be Provo but (see @Anders above). Yeah-ish").But it that wasn't the end of it! These cookies do not store any personal information. SKIP TOWN (62A: Run off or how to make the answers to 17-, 21-, 34-, 44- and 53-Across fit their clues). This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Puzzle solved! 5 Seinfeld anti-heroine given Jamaican tangelo.6 Emotional turmoil of every stand-up comedian. Just wanted to add a positive voice for this constructor hope to see more like this! I had SogdenOLO. How to use a word that (literally) drives some pe Editor Emily Brewster clarifies the difference. Finally, I returned to it this afternoon and immediately grasped the theme. I got SKIP after getting all the cities, so it didn't bother me. I think thats pretty clever of Lewis! Positive would rattle my cage.and how OFL would respondand what the commentariat would opine. who didn't. So, the next time you're in a hurry, turn to these easy breakfast recipes and make sure you get your fill before you head out. Haters gonna hate. Getting BUTTE and LAREDO early told me the commonality was cities in those states. OH FUN indeed. Id avoided reading the revealer at 62A and it was time. ATEITUP [as in ate up them city names]. But the theme wasn't the problem -- the fill was. And all in service of random geography. Salt Lake City is too long, so what's really left to PUZZLE. You know, the absolute smelliest things in the world. Another puz that I believe may have a fan base with the hard-core cruciverbalists, but will be an absolute turn-off for most casual players. Cook fur lunch and have a hearty meal. Terrible puzzle on many levels. The state abbreviations in the theme clues give a good basic hint. @Beezer - either "safe" or "suitable" work for NSFW, as you noted. Racing to the NE I entered LAREDO. It means the content (usually a link, but could be an email) may not be work-appropriate (nudity, swear words, etc.). He (or the editor) made it way too easy! Luis Alfaro announced in a Facebook post that he left his position as associate artistic director at Center Theatre Group on November 1. Spelled 11D LeMONCELLO, which made 16A about impossible. I enjoyed the triple challenge: What was the city? Googed for ELAINE, then SUITE (unsophistication), and also BEEB, which I originally had in as BBCI (after looking it up.) Not that I ever have been. This one absolutely wasn't. But you did AMUSE ME, I ATE IT UP, and Im now in the CHEERIEST mood. It is a delicious yet healthy snacking option for all your hunger pangs, served best with a bowl of hot sambhar. But today I actually solved faster than my average and yet was suuuper bummed by the lack of cohesiveness in this one. Easy Breakfast Recipes- Mornings are usually stressful hours of the day. So, I had an inkling about the theme but no more than that. It was just not fun. Particularly in MT and UT, I'd be hard pressed to name 3 towns/cities. If laughter is important to you (how could it not be in these times? Great puzzle with it's original themehope we see more with themes with this originality. I still have no idea about some people like TESS and OLDMAN, didn't know ELAINE as clued, and always need crosses to spell LIAISE, but the rest went in with a few slowdowns. No actual clues exist for the complete word including the city in the theme answers.I picked up momentum again at the bottom including SKIP TOWN, which got me back up to BUTTE and because I had also gotten PROVOLONE completely with crosses, I figured it out. Well, I had no idea! Finally I saw that it wasnt REleNT but RECANT and that impossible SW area fell.But whats going on? An unnamed woman filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles earlier this year accusing singer Trey Songz of raping her at a party in West Hills. Crispy, hot and as good as regular pooris, Kuttu or buckwheat flour is the perfect alternative during the fasting season of Navratri. A daily challenge for crossword fanatics. Mazel tov on its publication! Try these programs, How do you make Blockbuster for the streamer that helped kill it? Speaking of etymology, TRAVAIL has a weird one, shared with "travel". One spellcaster. This was definitely not fun. I got the theme eventually but even after that I got hung up on all the informals and abbeviations. I enjoyed some of the cluing despite the overabundance of abbreviations and "informallys"; the clue on OED (Meaningful work?) Very grr!! As a non-American, I was grateful that all the U.S. towns were recognizable no obscurities in the bunch. As someone said, the non-theme part of the puzzle is almost Saturday level of difficulty - clever, but with the long theme answers not directly clued at all (ie, you can not figure out the answers without having determined the theme), it gets to a frustrating point. Last Friday, they got married. Maybe the fact I was not one of them was the reason I enjoyed it so much. Liked Rasslin' with this one, and thanks for all the fun. No, I think not. I always get a kick out of the effusive praise for difficult puzzles from those who are trying to foist themselves above other solvers, while likely hitting the 'reveal' but before any of us did. Solve your "DULL" crossword puzzle fast & easy with the-crossword-solver.com. HOMESALES is town in Arizona (MESA) added to HOLES (the answer to Pits) in a way consistent with the the revealer and to make a new word. I must be from Planet Lewis because I got it done in 19 minutes with NO cheats, I found almost all of it cleverly clued, plus I could figure out the theme AND use some of that knowledge to help in my solve. **Or not. Thank you. And thanks for giving us not only a great revealer but also themers with three answers for the price of one: the clued answer, the unclued answer, and the town. Tell me that was an intended trap Lewis, please. RECIPROCAL. Then she took matters into her own hands, LA Vanguardia: An L.A. Times project celebrating the Latino vanguard transforming our cultural landscape, Meet LA Vanguardia: The Latino innovators, instigators and power players breaking through barriers, CNBC pulls the plug on The News With Shepard Smith, Johnny Depp to appear in Rihannas Savage X Fenty Vol. Get the Envelope newsletter for exclusive awards season coverage, behind-the-scenes stories from the Envelope podcast and columnist Glenn Whipps must-read analysis. That southwest corner put up a mighty fight until I finally saw MALTED. it implies that the answer wont be as straightforward as youd think. Having pbs entered early instead of the NPR really made that hard west block a needless TRAVAIL, but my ultimate lesson in humility came in failing to remember our lunch times on CInque Terre sipping LeMONCELLO until She Who Must Be Obeyed corrected my Italian.Thanks @Lewis; you and Chester deserve the happy reflections todays grid must have brought. Print | PDF version 13. Since nothing was obvious, I figured we were going the obscure-towns route -- you know, like Natick or that place with the marina. 2022. magazine that Ive (consistently) subscribed to for the last 7 years. However I think that mightve made it too easy for a Thursday. One is straightforward definition substitution using parts of a word. Kinda wish it had been backward and we would have gotten a normal clue for the theme words and then directions how to parse them in the revealer.Delighted with YEA HIGH! If the. Lewis, that was a very gracious commentary you posted. Thank you @Lewis. Completely agree with OffTheGrid 6:45 am, @Loren 9:13, and @Whatsername 10:56 that having no circles made the aha moment even better.And @Lewis 10:35 am: Thank you! Puzzles are supposed to be *fun*. Be patient. After that I began trying to remember all the cities in all the various states -- geography not being my strong suit.As I say, the cluing is fiendish. Butsince except for the themers the puzzle was easier than a normal Thursday, I guessed the included words before I untangled the theme, which was a fun aha for me, unlike OFL. Even though I knew it was PROVO, I had it spelled PROVaLONE, which crossed DaNtE (not knowing my poets, the fact that that fit was good enough. Great puzzle, Lewis! My heartfelt condolences on the loss of your beloved Chester. Synonyms for straightforward include direct, forthright, honest, open, candid, frank, sincere, straight, truthful and plain. You can experiment with it too by addingsome chicken to it to make it more wholesome. It doesn't matter when you have 3-letter fill if you clue it as brilliantly as NBA and OED. Was really disappointed when the actual answer was "B..UT"I did appreciate all of the towns were at least somewhat well known. About Our Coalition. Got all the themers from crosses only, which was a chore. I reckon he fixated on a sense of "skip" best conveyed by skipping stones, where you touch and then skip, touch then skip, but that's his problem, not Lewis's. It's understood that Thursdays will likely feature some sort of gimmick, whether it be a rebus, words nested in the answers, words snaking around the grid, black squares being used somehow in the solve, etc. For 53A I had only LONE and thought (read knew) the L was part of a missing first word. Bravo!! And I'm honored that independently I was able to come up with a theme that he did. I needed three of them.Rex also changes skips to jump over to make his argument LONE is PROVOLONE when you skip the town PROVO or if you jump over the town PROVO. Our staff has just finished solving all todays The Guardian Quick crossword and the answer for Passage cited from some other source can be found below. puz. It's cool if you don't like it, just skip Thursdays. The International Federation of, Tilahun was a decide of the Federal Court of Ethiopia, banking and insurance bench prior to beginning his non-public apply. You always give it a shot - never give a shot - and in what sense is Adam mankind? Also, shoutout to my hometown of BUTTE :-). Fatalistic sort in slang / SUN 10-15-22 / Actress Father of Calypso / SAT 10-15-22 / Corp with red u Pile of texts? AND there has to be symmetry. If you already have some letters and a length of the crossword puzzle then we can help. Great word play. For example, PARMESAN. But it is correct it doesn't fit the pattern implied by the other entries which break up the answer -- around town, one might say.I liked OH FUN even though only the sarcastic version fit this puzzle for me. Took a crossword break, came back to it hours later, and after a few seconds saw POLLED! This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. All solutions for "clear" 5 letters crossword answer - We have 12 clues, 436 answers & 840 synonyms from 3 to 21 letters. Okay, no worries. And I extend my most sincere sympathy for the loss of your sweet Chester. I'm glad she's having FUN and everything, but I hope she's studying hard. He left us several toe holds for those that solve every day, I cant imagine the work that goes into trying to create something different for us to figure out. I think that this is the best Thursday puzzle ever. No work at all yet a flavourful breakfast to fest on. About twice my usual solve time. 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