Is 1A universally recognisable? Because that guy – crossing OREL, SAMI & EBAN – could be sticky. AWAG, OSS and IAMA stick out given their position in less than open areas. The overall feel seems mostly solid, if not overly exciting given the low theme count. The other two answers are BLINKINGLIGHTS (initially wondered if BLINKINGLIGHTS was a non-US phrase itself) and BLOOMINGFLOWERS.Ī 3-part 14, 15, 14 theme is as close to a blank pallette in a themed puzzle as you can get. Probably too subtle to be terribly important, but consider it noted. Those two are present participle adjective + noun.
That phrase is then not the same as the other two. Apparently it means buying then immediately reselling houses for profit. Not familiar with the term FLIPPINGHOUSES. I assume given the clues Americans don’t say BLINKING, BLOOMING or FLIPPING. Harald Hornung’s Los Angeles Times crossword – Gareth’s review Kameron’s style mixes well with the prevailing AVX vibe, and I give this puppy 4.25 stars. I like themeless puzzles done well, and I would be pleased to see more themelesses in the AVX mix. , ORLANDO.ĭid not care for singular SCAD, double-E EEW (I’m an EWW woman). Appreciate the allusion to the Dallas Cowboys, out of the playoffs owing to karma. IRV GOTTI goes to NINEVEH, modernity meets antiquity. (We’ll not speak of AUREOLE other than to be glad TIE RODS is the only other 7 of its flat ilk.)Īlso lively: MR. But Kameron (who also has an NYT themeless in the pipeline, and- spoiler alert-I know it’s a juicy one because he ran a version or two by me before submission) nails the 1-Across quadrant with SAT PREP/KUWAITI/ORAL SEX crossing a SKOR BAR and PIXIE CUT. Usually I am bored by puzzles with this sort of grid, filled with dull 7-letter words that play well with others, grid-wise. And it’s so apt that 17a is crossed by a SKOR BAR, which is also sex for the mouth. Kameron Austin Collins’s American Values Club crossword, “Themeless #1”ĪV Club crossword solution, 1 14 15 “Themeless #1”Īll that keeps this 72-worder from being an NYT-grade themeless puzzle is ORAL SEX ( 17a. I knew Luke wasn’t in that movie, dammit!įill I wasn’t enamored of includes ALCOA, ERG, UTE, ETTE, and HEXA-, but there was no Scowl-o-Meter action while I was solving the puzzle. And then nothing else worked around there, and I realized it was BOMB crossing BALI and LUKE’s brother OWEN. You can use that LEMONADE to wash it all down.
#Wordish t shirts mac#
Food! There’s a BIG MAC (good entry, not so good intake), CHINESE takeout, SQUASH (clued as the sport), POTATO, corn dog ON A STICK, and LOX.In a cruciverbal world of Roman numeral abuse-your RRNs (random Roman numerals), your YOTPs (year of the pope clues), your woeful Roman numerals wedged in because they help the constructor fill a corner and not because they add cleverness to a puzzle-it’s good to have a purposeful application.
I feel like T-shirt is markedly more common perhaps one of you Google Ngram nerds (that is a term of admiration) will look that up and prove me right or wrong. 0114įive words or wordish entities that double as Roman numerals are treated as if they’re the numbers here: NY Times crossword solution, 1 14 15, no.
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