Took me a while to get MARILYN MONROE ( 15D: Famed Pop Art subject) because I (very) wrongly assumed 13A: Hannibal's men ended in an "S," which gave me the wrong initial letter for the MARILYN answer. SE corner filled up pretty fast, and once DEAD GIVEAWAY ( 21D: It's pretty obvious) floated up, that fat, open center became far more tractable, far less daunting. From this point on, I generally had enough leverage to work my way through the grid without much trouble. Filled some stuff in around its tail end, and bing bam boom I'm way down in the SE corner. Read more.Īside from that cluster in the North, the first answer I was sure of was ABATTOIR, which luckily I at least partially spelled correctly.
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since I'm using their image, I should probably at least tell you that the "comma chameleon" shirt is a real thing you can buy. The emperor continues to have few if any clothes.
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The concept and execution are both sub-3rd-rate-in-flight-magazine fare. Jaw-dropping that this puzzle was accepted. Here is a site called " Om Cooking: Food to Enlighten Your Palate." Because the pun is on HOME!!!!!!!! OM rhymes with HOME. No one-literally, no one-pronounces OMS like it rhymes with MOMS. Seriously, what is happening? But the biggest, most ridiculous failure of this theme is 24A: A CALL TO OMS. And what is up with the title: "New England Chatter." Is that supposed to be a play on "New England Chowder"? Has to be, right? But. First problem, that is not, in and of itself, characteristically "New England." It's not, as my friend just wrote me, "pahk the cah in hahvad yahd." Just say SPOCK PLUGS. The actual case scenario is a disaster, a mishmash of sound changes that resemble precisely nobody's accent. Again, that's the *best* case scenario for this theme. Even if this puzzle had Nailed It, conceptually, managing to turn ordinary phrases into phrases that sound like a Bostonian was saying them, it would've been corny and old hat. The fact that this saw the light of day indicates that Sunday submissions must be at dire, emergency levels. This is the most ill-conceived, DOA Sunday theme I can remember seeing.
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A few say she invented the aulos or double-flute, though most mythographers credit Marsyas with its invention. In late Classical times she was named muse of lyric poetry and depicted holding a flute. Called the "Giver of delight", when later poets assigned roles to each of the Muses, she was the muse of music. In Greek mythology, Euterpe ( / juː ˈ t ɜːr p iː/ Greek: Eὐτέρπη, Greek pronunciation:, Ancient Greek: "rejoicing well" or "delight" from Ancient Greek εὖ 'well' + τέρπειν terpein 'to please') was one of the Muses, the daughters of Mnemosyne, fathered by Zeus. Word of the Day: EUTERPE ( 38D: Sister of Erato).
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PASSING MOCK (69A: Ridicule shouted out of a moving car?).THE BOD OF AVON (51A: Most in-shape person at a cosmetics company?).HOT SPECIALIST (36A: Weather forecaster in Phoenix?).A CALL TO OMS (24A: Yoga teacher's invitation?) (oy, see below).SPOCK PLUGS (22A: Commercials for a "Star Trek" movie?) (why "movie"?).I think there's some attempt to make wacky phrases based on the idea of a "New England" accent, but mainly there appear to be simply a dropping of Rs (?). THEME: "New England Chatter" - I have no *&$%ing idea what is happening.