And my birthstone is GARNET, so there's that. I've always admired her for that.Īll in all - great fun and an epic fight. My daughter's sneezes are SUGAR-COATED RIPSNORTERS – violent on the inside but dainty and ladylike on the outside. My sneezes are NOSE RIPSNORTERS, which I hate. Why do we add that D when we change "refrigerator" to FRIDGE? To make sure the G is soft? But we have beige, prestige, vestige. RUNning must be some kind of panacea for dogs. Rat Poison Tucker's itchy coat and other troubles have just disappeared. I tell you what – there's nothing like watching dogs live their lives on a farm. SMILEY FACE right above SENTIMENTS is terrific. I'm boring you with this only because I almost didn't finish because I couldn't believe it was OF OLD. Laws OF OLD - modifies laws, so it's an adjective I can't come up with a sentence with "anciently," but is it really interchangeable with OF OLD?Īnciently-established laws - modifies established, so it's an adverb I resisted OF OLD until the bitter end because that feels like an adjective to me whereas the clue is an adverb. I convinced myself I could hear drunk guys chanting "Party arty arty." "Asta" (but he wasn't a cartoon, was he?), which gave me the ridiculous. That was when "el nino" or "la nina" was that wind. I can hear Rex' victim-gone-postal say it better, though. I had "and who else" in the sense of "you and what army?" but I get ANYONE ELSE and can hear a bully say that. I decided to give it a shot, and I wrestled this MOLTO toughie to the ground! Saturday Stumper, LA Times. Healy's name, so I didn't know if I should just wave the white flag early or treat it like a Peterson or Berry and know I could finish.
Hope you all are sleeping in and enjoying being ON LEAVE (and not "glowing," as I entertained first.) Then I got it-and by "it," I mean "the meaning of 'gravity' in this context." You draw a SMILEY FACE due to levity, not gravity. In the art of challenging cluing, there's an occasionally fine line between clever and nonsensical. Also, a side is only "gut-busting" if the portion is large and you eat all of it. JUMBO FRIES is not a thing, so that was terrible. I do like that " RINGO" crosses GUNSLINGER, since the word " GUNSLINGERs" appears in the song's first line. Bert LAHR! William INGE! " RINGO"! " RINGO" was Not on my radar. A lot of this puzzle felt slightly OF OLD. Maybe the phrase rang truer, bully-wise, in days OF OLD. Also, seems like it could easily be said by a victim of bullying who just pummeled the hell out of one of his abusers. When does a bully say " ANYONE ELSE?"? After he beats one person up and then turns to the crowd of onlookers? This feels like a cartoonish depiction of a 1940s bully.
People don't use them any more because they have been superseded by better technology, and modern machines simply don't run them. Floppy disks are PASSÉ? " PASSÉ" is "no longer fashionable," and floppy disks have nothing to do with fashion.
Cluing seemed off in a bunch of places too. Old school crosswordese ( SSA SSR SRTA UIES etc) and foreign fragments ( PAGO MOLTO etc.) and DESE and DANL just run too thick throughout this thing. Some lovely stuff, like the long Downs in the NE and a few other stray longer answers, but then a lot of suboptimal GUNK. Revenue for Madison Ave.Mixed bag today.Ones not inclined to make sweeping gestures? crossword clue.that used to bring a live bear onto the field at its home football games crossword clue Bible Verse of the Day AugPrayer of the Day.