Looking back, there’s not much “splash” in the fill, but with fresh, fun clues it doesn’t much matter. I was thoroughly enjoying the cluing of the puzzle’s fill. 55A CONFERENCE TABLE.ĭad jokes abound! I actually didn’t see much of the theme while solving.43A PLATFORM BED. What’s the difference between a PLATFORM BED and other types? I’m not up on my bed terminology.25A ROLL TOP DESK. Covered in flour, I suppose.17A CONVERTIBLE SOFA. Or one of those really cool car twin beds that I wanted so badly as a 6-year-old!.I just got done with the first and have no idea where it went in the land of the internet. This is my second attempt at this write-up. Zisser’s Universal crossword, “Interior Design 101” - Jim Q’s write-up Clues felt a little heavy on the trivia side, but they’re mostly inferable. Andrew, not Lyndon.Ĭute theme and good fill. I can understand how this is okay, but I’d still rather see an unequivocally plural clue for a plural answer. Here, though, it’s the plural of “bio” whereas the clue is singular. To computer types, BIOS means Basic Input-Output System. The internet tells me the more common abbreviations are IS or ISL or ICE. WHITE WATER and SOLITUDE round out the top fill.Īt the other end, ICEL sticks out as an uncommon abbreviation for Iceland. RED MEAT gets a cluing angle that I’d never heard before, but I liked the trickeration in OSCILLATED‘s clue. If the theme didn’t float your boat, there’s plenty of chewy long fill to go around starting off with CAMELOT and SCALAWAG. Also, cake batter isn’t exactly a food item (for most people). The additional letters (the N and M) didn’t bother me, but there is a little inconsistency in that the first part of each phrase also changes meaning in all cases except the third one. I thought this was a cute theme, especially when I realized how apt the title was. An additional N was necessary to pluralize the word. Each theme answer is a food item with an appended -IES at the end, wholly changing the meaning of the phrase. Mike Shenk’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Foodies”-Jim P’s reviewĪ good title hints at what’s going on in the puzzle without giving anything away, and that’s exactly the case here. Other fill of note: CASH BAR, PETREL, RIAN Johnson of Knives Out fame, SCIATICA, POWERADE, and IN A TIZZY 56D: Movement started by Tarana Burke - ME T.54A: “Li’l Abner” character shaped like a bowling pin - SHM.39D: Like Dick Van Dyke when singing “Chim Chim Cher-ee” - STY.42A: Certain money-saving rideshare option - UBER PL.12D: Reusable dessert container - CKIE TIN.7D: Who has finished a 100-meter dash in under nine seconds - NNE.14A: Quarters seen in some parts of Canada - IGLS.
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