#Comics tyke crossword clue free#

I counted 16 trivial trivia answers (17 if you count DANTE, part of the old white guy canon that nobody actually reads thanks to Spark Notes), three awful answers and two more OMFG NO answers (EDATES and ONE O'CAT). Good luck, everyone, if you're about to get pummeled with snow. Gotta replace the ink cartridge and print out a bunch of old themelesses in case I lose power. Just don't, unless you have a plumber on speed dial. SINK SIN – trying to put the peels down the disposal. Thing is, he always accidentally called'em 'potato healers.' Bought several to take home to his willage in Steiermark. I had an Austrian boyfriend who was gobsmacked by POTATO PEELERS. Would a DEFENSE ATTORNEY LARD the discovery documents to try to bury all the damning stuff? I don't think I ever thought of LARD as a verb. And tough to cook without ending up with a big, cantaloupe-size sticky glob of ick.

#Comics tyke crossword clue free#

GLUTEN FREE PASTA – so, so current and in the language. Plus, there was this one time in Innsbruck when I grabbed and elk by the tail, and, well, it still took hours to catch him. 'elk' for EEL because I just couldn't believe it was EEL. I love it when the clue disguises a plural. 'tees' for SERA – bet I join a CAST OF THOUSANDS on that goof. Yeah, Rex, I noticed all those names, too, but not the fact that they were men or women, just that I didn't know so many: COLSON, STAN LEE, ASTRID, NANETTE, BETSEY, EVA, REA, KEL.But I got'em with the crosses, so fair enough. Not much else to say about this one except INATREE will never be not terrible, unless the clue is something involving 'K-I-S-S-I-N-G.' But the fact that five women's names *feels* like a lot-the fact that I noticed-tells you something about how low the Expectation Bar has been set. looks like there are six men, if you count DANTE (plus DER ALTE, KEL, SWEE PEA (swee' pea was a dude, right?), Lance ITO, and that COLSON guy) (shoulda made that answer COLSON Whitehead, one of whose many virtues is being alive now). again, I have no idea how often this actually happens, but I want to say 'not often.' Wait, no. I don't know if it's a coincidence (it probably is), but there seemed to be a Lot of women's names in this puzzle: ASTRID, NANETTE, BETSEY, CLARICE, and EVA. I don't know what the stats are, but I feel like, out of the ~104 themeless puzzles each year, maybe 5 are constructed, in part or in total, by women. Very rare to have a themeless puzzle constructed by a woman. I was also imagining the elbows of Condoleeza and Jerry and the Owls of Rice U. > 'elbows' definitely had me thinking pasta, but.

The whole thing felt pretty tepid, for the most part, though I really liked GLUTEN-FREE PASTA, both because it's a modern answer and because the clue was intriguingly inscrutable. When you can walk across all levels of the grid that easily, there's probably not going to be much that can slow you down.

Got all the long Acrosses with somewhere between zero and three of the answers' first letters. This was largely because the long answers were so easy to get. ), the puzzle proved remarkably tractable. that misty time of my ELDERS, when DER ALTE squared off against Chuck COLSON in a rousing game of ONE O'CAT. Despite the fact that there were a bunch of names I didn't know, and the puzzle seemed to be anchored in a past I never lived in (i.e.