![]() Only a few hours left before the Eurovision Final. I love "They don't hold water" for STRAINERS, "They might cut to the chase" for HEISTFILMS, and "One often sent packing?" for ASS. GENERATIONALPHA (Ones born beginning in the early 2010s), LIMAPERU (The world's largest desert capital, after Cairo, Egypt) (who knew? I think "South America" and I think "rain forest," not "desert"), ODETS ("Golden Boy" playwright), LEONES (Currency units in West Africa), APOLAR (Electrically balanced, in chemistry) (maybe in 10th grade.), LAOS (So-called "Land of a Million Elephants") (still, I wonder?), and TRINI (Certain Caribbean, informally). I'm already starting to feel better, and I'm very happy to know that in two weeks my life can start to get more normal, but I tell you all this because I feel like I've got nothing today. Anyway, I did the puzzle at about 7:00, then lay down on the couch and fell back to sleep for an hour or two. No cold symptoms, per se, and nothing too SEVERE, but an overall malaise that was really quite unpleasant. I woke up today with sore muscles and a headache. I have to tell you, I got my second shot yesterday (Moderna), and it packed a punch. And I don't use the term DONK to mean "Hit on the head, in slang." I put bONK in there and ended up with a FWOE, because, I guess, I didn't check "Touches, e.g." ( IPODS). ![]() I've never heard BOOBOISIE (Portmanteau coinage for the uneducated and uncultured) before, but it's kind of amusing. ![]() To be fair, though, I wanted PTERanodon, and just left the first five letters in for a while, until I finally read "Special pawn move in chess," ( ENPASSANT), which helped clear things up. ![]() The top left fell relatively easily, but then I moved around without any real direction, and I somehow went far too long without seeing clues like "Hoth, in 'Star Wars'" ( ICEPLANET), and "Late-Triassic flier" ( PTEROSAUR). An interesting grid shape today and a good tough Saturday puzzle. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |