Exhibit A: SLEEPS IN means to linger in bed to native speakers. A specific type of figurative language is worth knowing when distinguished from a metaphor in the English classroom, I guessĮnglish learners struggle with idiomatic expressions. Very happy to see a SIMILE in full display in the cluing. Sure, some lose mental acuity with age, while some young minds never acquire it. Ageism is just as discriminatory as any ignorant prejudice. OFL is right on the money about that whole SENIOR MOMENT cop out. I vehemently do not believe in GHOSTS, but I have a great story involving a visitation from Bill, but even I try not to believe it really happened. Shakespeare had his Seven Ages of Man monologue, but our puzzle only gives us six, or actually five because of the whole GHOST thing. So let's just say kinda stale but mostly solid, with a final themer that, love it or hate it, at least takes the puzzle out of the realm of the mundane. Haven't seen AIWA in forever, perhaps because it now requires the word "Onetime" in its clue. Crosswordese all up and down this thing (NE and SW corners particularly stuffed). I got ROOD easily, but only because I'm a medievalist who teaches a poem called "The Dream of the ROOD" on a regular basis. I had the "G" first couldn't think of any words that would work. I also had trouble with NO MSG (12D: Request to a waiter), since the type of restaurant where one might actually say that phrase was inconveniently left out of the clue. Anyhow, the "U" thing messed me up, which then made LOG weird ( 23D: Item in a grate). which I don't play, but I must know the name somehow. because the city is Turin, and also there's a video game series called Gran Turismo. Besides those longer Downs, the only answers that gave me pause were TORINO (29A: 1960s-'70s Ford named for an Italian city)-I had TURINO. If the second "IT" phrase had been GOT IT, and that answer had been buried somewhere near the bottom of the grid, I probably wouldn't even have noticed the duplication. How do you feel about repeated small words like "IT"? Normally I don't mind much, but somehow the fact that "IT" shows up in both of the marquee non-theme long answers up top. Hardest thing about this puzzle was parsing the longer Downs, specifically PILE IT ON and HOTFOOT IT. But it's Monday and the theme is otherwise kinda dull so bring on the dancing mummies, I guess, sure, why not? Not sure if the last themer is trying to be funny or what? It's bizarre. Or, you know, CORPSE POSE, that works too. Were there no good WRAITH or ZOMBIE phrases? VAMPIRE BAT was one letter too long (though you coulda gone BABY ALBUMS plural and made it work). But GHOST, man, what the hell? Why you got me undead? Dang. Anyway, it's the only life stage here represented by a lapse or weakness, boo. I put the crackers in the fridge, like, 2 weeks ago. What the hell is up with that last themer? It was bad enough to have the "senior" answer be the horrible phrase SENIOR MOMENT, a godawful never-say-it-in-my-presence euphemism for just spacing, which honestly I've been doing since forever. I didn't really notice the theme as I was solving, and I *certainly* didn't notice that I ended up not just in the grave but Risen From It. Well, not the actual drug of speed-not sure what that would do to me. yeah, I didn't hate this one, so maybe the drug of speed is having its way with me. That kind of success always makes one predisposed to like a puzzle, and. (wikipedia)įlying high off my fastest time since I started recording them five weeks ago. Ochoa was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017. As the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world, she is considered the best Mexican golfer and the best Latin American female golfer of all time. She was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive and total weeks (both are LPGA Tour records), from 23 April 2007 to her retirement in, at the age of 28 years old. info) born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010.Word of the Day: Lorena OCHOA ( 16A: Women's golf star Lorena). GHOST TOWN (59A: Place where no one lives anymore).SENIOR MOMENT (47A: Temporary mental lapse).ADULT SWIM (41A: Popular Cartoon Network programming block). TEEN VOGUE (30A: Fashion magazine spinoff).BABY ALBUM (17A: Holder of some precious memories).THEME: baby steps - first words of themers progress from BABY to.
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