![]() ![]() The revealer is MIDDLE ENGLISH (56a, ).Įach theme clue has three parts and and feels a bit like a clue from a cryptic puzzle. Our theme is foreign two-word phrases that hide an English word between the words. My apologies for reviewing an old puzzle in this space to begin with. Queena Mewers & Alex Eaton-Salners’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Language Barriers”-Jim P’s review Sidetracking: DWAYNE - Johnson, surprisingly adept at the microphone, singing perhaps the greatest Disney tune of all time: IT CROWD, IT HELP, IT DESKS, IT PEOPLE… IT never ends. Slacking: IT PEOPLE - I got the IT, and had to get the rest on crosses. Because political power does not flow from the sleeve of a dashiki political power flows from the barrel of a gun-it flows from the barrel of a gun! And we don’t care how many programs they have, how long a dashiki they have. But that man has to be driven out of our community, because anybody who comes into the community to make profit off the people by exploiting them can be defined as a capitalist. Sometimes he’s black and sometimes he’s white. We have to understand very clearly that there’s a man in our community called a capitalist. we just call them “floors” these days.Ĭracking: DASHIKI - reminds me of a fiery Fred Hampton quote: Also, “wards” is a pretty outdated term in the U.S. I don’t know anyone who thinks of the wards as “bright, cheerful spaces” - though I suspect the sunny spin is required to prevent the puzzle from coming off too dour. TO MCATS is a great find, although I’m not sure which hospitals Mr. Odd that there were two medical/hospital themed entries adjacent to each other, by chance alone. I will say, though, that the last one was a bit of a stretch, and ventured into “Look what I found!” constructor preening (which is another way of saying I’m jealous, more than anything else.) I’m usually not a big fan of Thursday puzzles that involve a straightforward solve, but I liked this for two reasons: one, it was actually interesting to parse each theme entry and two, there is a cheesy quality to each ode that required a degree of thoughtfulness and artistry, and I really appreciated reading through them. TO RON, TO BLUE JAYS (“I don’t have the words / That rightly commend / Cerulean birds / And Harry’s best friend …”).TO WARDS (“A hospital has many specialized places / Where patients recover in bright, cheerful spaces …”). ![]()
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