But finding a symmetrical theme set that is all foods has to have been tough, and the result is fun. Quibble: A CLAM is slang for a dollar, whereas LETTUCE and BREAD are both terms for money in general. The revealer at 57A is DOLLAR MENU, and the theme entries are all food items that start with words that are slang terms for money: Perhaps this puzzle is Howard’s way of telling the universe to send him some money, food, or both. The crossworld has an awful lot of nice people in it, but one of the nicest is Howard Barkin, so I was delighted to see his byline today. Los Angeles Times 7/18/22 by Howard Barkin Howard Barkin’s Los Angeles Times crossword - Stella’s write-up Depending on the oil, spontaneous combustion is a real danger. Make sure to treat and store those OILY rags properly, folks. I also liked SMURFY, but is that really the definition of that word? As I recall from the show, they’d use that word to replace many different adjectives.Ĭlue of note: 63a. This time I remembered that third vowel in ANGELENO is an E and not an I. In the fill, we have STATE LINE, GAVE IT A GO, ALL-IN-ONE, MARVELED, UNWASHED, and ANGELENO to sink our teeth into. (Was he really a “master” in that movie?) The theme probably couldn’t be done without MASTER PO, so that was a nice find, but I bet most of us needed the crossings for that one. I like the lively theme answers and the long U sound in the final entry. MASTER PO.Īs vowel progressions go, this is very nice.
I only just realized the title is a pun on “peace process.” But the theme is a vowel progression with words starting with P occurring at the end of well-known phrases. Kevin Christian’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “P’s Process”-Jim P’s review So imagine my surprise when AREA turned up as the answer at 24d !
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Each answer takes a common idiom and reparses it to be about a relevant location. This is a hard theme to sum up in a single sentence. New York Times, 07 18 2022, by Phoebe Gordon
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