Gesundheit preceder3/8/2023 ![]() ![]() A criminal is hiding among that crowd, who pretends to have been somewhere else, but a clever detective catches a shot of his back (you can never disguise a back, as all Agatha Christie fans know) and voila, mystery lol! "ciao, ciao rafiki" has never been uttered in the history of humankind! Do they say rafiki (my friend) in Congo/Zaire? It also made me think that it would be interesting to have it in a modern day mystery story. For a minute, I could imagine doug in that corner, on a SETTEe underneath those HIDDEN you know everything, so may be you can explain: Why would a country with a perfectly good name like Zaire change it to one that's already from Chicago, I LOVED that smile inducing video. In my infinite ignorance, I had never heard of Evil ERNIE. and wonderful write up, Andrea! I, too, like the counterpoints: the zippy stuff- SPEED, ZEAL, EXPRESS modulated with softer stuff- LENTO, LILT and AMORE. so I'd like to put this blog to bed to the dulcet tones of my favorite answer "LOLA" ( 37A: In a Kinks hit s/he "walked like a woman and talked like a man"):Īw c'mon, now, I needed 37 more cents to get to Zanzibar … ciao ciao, rafiki! If only AGUA ( 28D: Contents of the Spanish Main) had been AQUA, the puzzle would have been one F away from a pangram! (And only one clue away from having NO gratuitous Simpsons references! 56D: "The Simpsons" teacher who was called Mrs. On a positive note, however, this puzzle was very Scrabbly with a nice sprinkling of Zs,Xs, Ks, and a J. Speaking of which, I'd like to take this opportunity (as it's my last blog before I watusi my way to the Congo) to complain that I get the letters WATUSI on my Scrabble rack at least once a game, which is illegal to play in Scrabble, and yet is almost impossible to make another word out of. Although there is something I like about TOSEE, it feels like a cross between Tushie and Watusi. 44A: Eisenhower and Turner (IKES) is so visually evocative - I can totally picture DDE and Mamie across a candlelit table from Ike and Tina on a double date … from hell! Speaking of DDE, if I had any nits to pick about this puzzle, it would be that there were an abundance of three letter initials: BLT, ETO, EKG, GRE, MLB, LPS as well as ten (count 'em, ten!) fill-in-the-blanks with partials such as INOR, ISTO, ITBE, ASTAR, TOSEE. Some of the interesting pairings are even self-contained in the clues, e.g. (DISSIDENT) there's a less highbrow 63D: "Evil ERNIE" (comics series). And for every highbrow, sophisticated clue/answer such as 34D: Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet era, e.g. Instead, we get some nice back and forth … 42A: Lenin's "What IS TO Be Done?" seems to be answered by the other Lennon's 44D: "Let IT BE." (Actually, it was written by Paul … but still!) 50D: Tree with "catkins" (whatever the hell they are) is sweetly paralleled with the theme answer DOGPADDLE. Barry was very clever not to have clued SHAG with an Austin Powers reference where we would then have to brace ourselves for sniggering comments by ACNED BRATs (ACH!) about its double entendre meaning in the other English-speaking nation. (MLB), and 54D: Catch and throw back as fly balls (SHAG). He has traded one diamond field for a field of diamonds … or something like that! You would never realize it was the same person, but he sneaks in signature clues like 26A: Most Little Leaguers (BOYS), 38D: World Series org.
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