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Constructor: Steve Weyer
Relative issue: SO HARD (32:51– simply double my regular Wednesday time)
THEME: ARS MAGNA — Phrases constructed from three sections of anagrams in a row
- [Actor Sean does some things that aren’t nice] for ASTIN ISN’T A SAINT
- [Silent film star Bara didn’t want to leave us] for THEDA HATED DEATH
- [Artist Edouard mistakenly proposed 11:00] for MANET MEANT TEN A.M.
- [Fictional lawyer Perry cries “I give!”] for MASON MOANS, “NO MAS!”
- [1545 treatise whose rearranged letters aptly suggest 17-, 26-, 44- and 59-Across] for ARS MAGNA, which anagrams to ANAGRAMS
- Darn, this may hit a lot tougher if I had ever heard of this earlier than
Phrase of the Day: IROC (Classic Camaro proprietor’s boast?) —
Worldwide Race of Champions (IROC) was a North American auto racing competitors, created by Les Richter, Roger Penske and Mike Phelps, promoted as an American-motorsports equal of an all-star sport. Regardless of its title, the IROC was primarily related to North American oval monitor racing.
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Hey squad, and glad First Wednesday of the Month, aka Malaika MWednesday! Immediately jogs my memory of the truth that Election Day (within the US) just isn’t on the primary Tuesday of November– it is on the primary Tuesday after the primary Monday of November. The thought being that you’ve got not less than in the future in November to be reminded to vote.
However as I am penning this, it’s neither a Wednesday, nor November! It’s October and it’s HALLOWEEN!! I used to be a satan at one costume celebration, and Princess Jasmine at one other. However the perfect costume I noticed by far was a squad of ppl sporting security vests and clutching a rope. They have been dressed up as The Daycare Kiddos On A Stroll!! Please let me know your costumes within the feedback
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| I like vine-ripened youths, I see them toddling about Brooklyn, rigorously wanting each methods at intersections, and am overcome with the will to pinch their cheeks |
There have been an infinite variety of correct nouns on this puzzle, which I assume would be the supply of complaints. I am going to take part. My rule for correct nouns is much like my rule for puns– if I do know the correct noun, then I like to see it in a puzzle. If I’ve by no means heard of it, then I do not prefer it. I’m very egocentric that means.
I didn’t know a lot of those (Assault of the Crab Monsters, MUIR Woods, Bosch, DE SOTO, NAN Goldin, YANN Patel, Brandon Teena, Hoggett), however specifically the 4 within the theme solutions!! Who’re these individuals?? Well-known, I am certain however I used to be clueless, wading by the puzzle like I used to be pushing my means in the direction of the toilet at a crowded celebration the place I do know just one individual, they usually’ve deserted me to flirt with a stranger. I do not assume I might title a single actor in a silent movie no matter whether or not they’re a star… I do not assume I might even the title of a single silent movie! (I’ll flag that “silent movie” is an superior instance of a retronym.) MANET kind of rings a bell as “the man who just isn’t Monet despite the fact that they’ve comparable names” however 1800s French artwork just isn’t my forte. We will additionally debate whether or not one thing like ASTIN / NAN is a Natick. Not realizing both of these individuals, I had “Nat” their initially. However then I noticed the sample within the theme solutions which allowed me to puzzle (ha!) out that letter.
I am sorry I haven’t got something extra to say– I feel this was a effective puzzle, it was simply laborious and crammed with issues I did not know, and I like to resolve simple puzzles crammed with issues that I do know. I do not assume it was a nasty puzzle, however past “I received my ass kicked and on the finish of the day it is a theme I’ve seen earlier than” I haven’t got rather a lot to contribute. These have been my closing 4 squares, the place I basically ran the alphabet til I used to be informed the puzzle was full:
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| This picture consists of ASS and ARSE which I swear was an accident |
- [1957’s “Attack of the Crab Monsters,” for one] for B MOVIE — Jerry Seinfeld’s meme masterpiece Bee Film got here out after I was ten years previous and I didn’t know the title was a pun. I merely thought it was a superb title for a film about bees. Extra motion pictures must be named that means! Boat Film or Boxing Film or and so on.
- [Online zine] for EMAG — On my tombstone, I would really like somebody to engrave “EMAG just isn’t a phrase”
- [Six Flags ride named for a powerful animal] for EL TORO — I completely crammed in “Eeyore” first right here and I cannot be ashamed of it.
- [Tamale dough] for MASA — What is the singular of tamales? I assumed it was tamal, however perhaps that is simply in Spanish. (The singular of paninis in English is panini, although in Italian it is panino.)
- Can somebody please clarify what HYPOS are and why [Little shots?] works as a clue? Not seeing something on Google.
xoxo Malaika
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