#Utterly bad or obnoxious crossword clue full

The ENTs aren’t actually trees themselves but forest managers. I thought it was weird that the Egyptians would use a Greek term for a god. That made me think this answer might be the Egyptian god AMON-RA. For most of the solve I had an R where that B is since I used RIB for the crossing. Our long fill consists of FARMYARD, ROAD TEAM (I wanted AWAY TEAM), AIR TIMES, and OVERHEAT. I like the theme a lot, but felt like the clues were just a tad off. Solving the puzzle wasn’t so bad once you start to recognize the phrases, but parsing the clues was another matter. The phrase means “Good night.” And TEN is a “latish hour.” I like this clue best because it’s compact with no extraneous bits. I guess a fellow rowboater would save the fallen person by extending an OAR? Meh. The phrase means “Thanks.” …And an OAR is used in a rowboat, but I’m blanking on the “saving me after I fell out” part. The phrase is the French term for the “carnival” that occurs the day before Lent starts (although the term actually translates to “Fat Tuesday”). Especially since SOP could be an initialism for Standard Operating Procedure which is a rough translation of the phrase. This one was confusing and a tough one to start with. And SOP means “soup”? Or does SOP mean “soup” in MIDDLE ENGLISH? Not sure. A burglar’s usual technique is a definition for the phrase. There’s a city which hints at the language of the phrase, there’s an English definition of the phrase, and there’s a hint at the hidden word. The revealer is MIDDLE ENGLISH (56a, ).Įach theme clue has three parts and and feels a bit like a clue from a cryptic puzzle. Our theme is foreign two-word phrases that hide an English word between the words. My apologies for reviewing an old puzzle in this space to begin with. Queena Mewers & Alex Eaton-Salners’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Language Barriers”-Jim P’s review Sidetracking: DWAYNE - Johnson, surprisingly adept at the microphone, singing perhaps the greatest Disney tune of all time: IT CROWD, IT HELP, IT DESKS, IT PEOPLE… IT never ends. Slacking: IT PEOPLE - I got the IT, and had to get the rest on crosses. Because political power does not flow from the sleeve of a dashiki political power flows from the barrel of a gun-it flows from the barrel of a gun! And we don’t care how many programs they have, how long a dashiki they have. But that man has to be driven out of our community, because anybody who comes into the community to make profit off the people by exploiting them can be defined as a capitalist. Sometimes he’s black and sometimes he’s white. We have to understand very clearly that there’s a man in our community called a capitalist.

we just call them “floors” these days.Ĭracking: DASHIKI - reminds me of a fiery Fred Hampton quote: Also, “wards” is a pretty outdated term in the U.S. I don’t know anyone who thinks of the wards as “bright, cheerful spaces” - though I suspect the sunny spin is required to prevent the puzzle from coming off too dour. TO MCATS is a great find, although I’m not sure which hospitals Mr. Odd that there were two medical/hospital themed entries adjacent to each other, by chance alone. I will say, though, that the last one was a bit of a stretch, and ventured into “Look what I found!” constructor preening (which is another way of saying I’m jealous, more than anything else.)

I’m usually not a big fan of Thursday puzzles that involve a straightforward solve, but I liked this for two reasons: one, it was actually interesting to parse each theme entry and two, there is a cheesy quality to each ode that required a degree of thoughtfulness and artistry, and I really appreciated reading through them. TO RON, TO BLUE JAYS (“I don’t have the words / That rightly commend / Cerulean birds / And Harry’s best friend …”).TO WARDS (“A hospital has many specialized places / Where patients recover in bright, cheerful spaces …”).TO MCATS (“Exams a must for future docs / Make sure your answers fill the box …”).TO ADS (“For me, the Super Bowl’s a bore / But watching these is fun galore …”).

#Utterly bad or obnoxious crossword clue full

TO ASTERS (“An avid flower lover sees / A fall bouquet that’s full of these …”).

TO PRANKS (“It is such fun to fool the folks / And make them butts of harmless jokes …”).

Joe Deeney’s New York TImes crossword, 2/22/23, 0222