Gears on a living human being's feet in more than a decade. 20A: Shoe company based in Southern California (LA GEAR) - Can we retire this one, please? I have not seen a pair of L.A.As in: "he still won't LET ON, but that senator knows exactly what Trump said about Africa." Here in real life, "let on" always means "admit" to me. but I cannot think of a single time anyone has ever used it that way in conversation. 19A: Pretend (LET ON) - Webster has "pretend" as a third definition for this phrase, and.Other Gripes, Even Though I Liked the Puzzle Overall and Had Fun: and ECHELONS, OBLIVION, PRETAX, and STEM CELLS all get a ROGER EBERT memorial thumbs-up from me. It would have been pointless to expect sparkling answers in the scrawny 3 x 4 corners (NW and SE), but nothing there was truly awful. Qualms about the theme aside, the fill was solid overall. Maladies, regents, Romans: all nouns one might use in a clue that would be intelligible on its own, i.e. without this "initialism" gimmick. Is the alternative "illegal acting"? #LegalizeActing! No. We all love Linda Evans (speaking of which, Wonder Woman: 28 fewer nominations than films by Roman Polanski) but "legal acting" is. Less SORELY vexing, but still notable: 24 across.
and the most famous crossword puzzle in the country chooses a clue that will surely elicit, for many people, the immediate first guess: "Polanski."Īs in: Roman Polanski, the director whose films have won eight Academy Awards, six of them after he fled the United States to escape sentencing after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.Īnd then RYAN O'NEAL, the answer that apparently could not have been clued any other way than with "Roman of Hollywood?", because Ryan is after all a "man of Hollywood" with the initials R.O., crosses. I mean: it's February 1, 2018, during that brief hopeful window between Oscar nominations and the Oscar telecast, but also right smack in the middle of #MeToo and #TimesUp and a burgeoning awareness about the horrible deeds of horrible men in every industry but famously and perhaps especially in Hollywood. The first themed clue-"Roman of Hollywood?"-juts right out on to the thinnest of ice. I breezed through this one, and even shaved a few seconds off my personal best Thursday time, thanks to a pedestrian theme (Rex notes that the initial gimmick has been used before, and less than two years ago, by the NYT) that revealed its secrets super quick. I mean, "screaming into OBLIVION." My mistake. I usually write about booze or yammer about David Lynch on the Internet, but tonight I'm filling in for Rex while he catches up on screaming into the void. Beyonce." I am fine with that.Īnyway: hi, everyone! Pleased to meet you and Happy February! I'm Ken Walczak. Yes, I realize this means that by 2340 or so, Jay-Z will be known exclusively as "Mr.
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AND he married Pocahontas! How does that fact get lower billing than the tobacco thing, or Rolfe being "of colonial Jamestown"? I'm not a big fan of defining people by their choice of spouse, but I do think a fair rule is this: if you marry someone, and Disney makes a movie about that person 350 years later, you get to be "Mr.
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