Gary Cee’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Showtime”-Jim P’s review No matter how many puzzles I do or how many times I see her name, I can never remember if SONIA Sotomayor spells her first name with an I or a Y.Just needed “ettu” up there for a real bacchanalia. Weird amount of Roman related clues up there in the NW corner – VIDI, IDES, CATO.Funny that both of these were about suits of some sort! I loved both SPACE SUITS and SKINNY DIPS, especially the clue on the latter: 29d.That’s a testament to how clean this puzzle is I’m not sure I can see a single objectionable crossing. And that came after drawing a total blank on 1a – both VINEs, apparently. It’s a bit convoluted and hard to explain, and it also assumes a particular path – this felt a bit meta-funny to me, since HONEY I’M HOME still had me in the sitcom mindset, and normally you can’t even see the exterior of the houses there! All that being said, STICK THE LANDING and BOY NEXT DOOR are great entries.ĭespite my inability to understand the theme while solving, I still nearly broke 3 minutes on my solve, which is pretty rare for me. So overall, I’m not sure the theme stuck the landing (haha) for me. (In fairness, there are not many STREET phrases that don’t refer to “street” in a road sense). Combined with DELLA STREET, who I had never heard of, and the puzzle on the whole has a retro vibe. HONEY I’M HOME feels straight out of old TV to me (although when I googled the phrase I mostly got a 90’s sitcom and a Shania Twain song). So once I had the theme answers in place, I went back to the revealer… and I still couldn’t get it and had to get it all on crosses. When I saw that it would require all the theme answers to understand, I went back to the top of the puzzle and solved it top-down. When I solved this puzzle online, I noticed the highlighted revealer, so I jumped down there immediately to see if it was any help. So, the theme progresses from the STREET, to the STEPS, to the LANDING, to the DOOR, before the speaker enters their HOME. Even now.New York Times, 06 06 2022, By Michael Schlossberg Now, though, the appeal lies in staring contentedly out the bus window, enjoying the in-between state, the getting there.īut I can still remember that feeling of anticipation for the finish line. I couldn’t wait to get there, wherever “there” was. I watched the line of young people file onto the bus and recalled how, when I was their age, my mind was focused on the destination.
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