There is so much that is so good about this puzzle’s fill-themed and un-that I want to get right to it. Updated Friday morning: Doug Peterson’s Washington Post/CrosSynergy puzzle, “Inside Man”-Janie’s review Utah and Colorado? The Dakotas? Peeking at a map…it’s Nevada and Utah. Let me guess: Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, and…I’m short two states. clues a seabird, the SKUA, which spells AUKS backwards. Wait, is there more than one PI? I don’t think there is. is not a DISCO, it’s the EIDER duck with its down feathers. Anyone else think of efts’ and tadpoles’ papas? may have you thinking of Nat King Cole and Red Skelton, but it’s the Washington Nationals and Cincinnati Reds: NLER. Doesn’t everyone have three nurses in the family and an overriding familiarity with the profession? No? In any event, LPNs have less training and education than RNs. Another time LPN was in the NYT crossword, I was surprised to see that a lot of folks were unfamiliar with the term. clues LPNS, short for licensed practical nurses. Four-letter European river at 1-Across? Yeow. Right there at the beginning, we get whacked with. AMY TANKING builds beautifully on author Amy Tan. “Barking” isn’t all that commonly used in that sense. 52a. Not crazy about ESPRESSO BARKING and.This add-some-letters theme adds KING to the ends of four familiar phrases/words as an homage to the game of checkers: Jack McInturff’s Los Angeles Times crossword And speaking of which-hey! look at the pattern in the center of the grid. Not to be confused with women with areolas, though there is significant overlap. Wikipedia lists plenty of “famous people named Ivo,” but they don’t tend to be household names in the U.S. I just looked up phiz in the dictionary: British, informal, “a person’s face or expression,” derived from physiognomy in the 1600s. The answer the crossings gave me is ABE Lincoln, who’s on a $5 bill. I have it on good authority that pimples can continue into one’s 60s. Are you too old for benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid, but not yet too old for zits? Try Desert Essence Blemish Touch Stick, a little tea tree oil roll-on that helps zap zits with natural antiseptic and antiinflammatory properties. Did you think about ménages à trois? Didn’t we all? Amo, amas, amat, the singular conjugation of “to love” in Latin, includes AMAT as. Pennsylvanians are welcome to kvetch about this, as their Erie and Wyoming counties are not adjacent. Apparently the state of New York has a Wyoming County beside Erie County. ERIE is a fairly common repeater, but this clue is uncommon. This is one of those names I know only from crosswords. It’s James EADS, designer of the 1874 Eads Bridge. I almost went with EERO Saarinen, who designed the Gateway Arch, but there was no reason for the answer to be a first name. was where I started filling in this grid. She had an overfond attachment to her chewing gum, and- spoiler alert!-when she threw up at the Port Authority bus station, she retrieved the wad of gum from the loo of barf…and popped it back into her mouth and blissed out again. Then I discovered that she played Caroline in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and she was the main comic relief. That 27d crossing,, was not so obviously SIRED, so I was hesitant about filling in the middle of ARI. I wasn’t at all fond of the mystery until I looked her up after finishing the puzzle. I love seeing DO OR DIE () all smushed together in the grid. I hope you didn’t put MIND YOUR P’S AND Q’S there. isn’t about meat, it’s about federal dollars: It’s Alaska’s erstwhile planned BRIDGE TO NOWHERE that Sarah Palin was famously for before she was against it. is a confusing and yet completely apt description of a MEAT THERMOMETER. LOW-HANGING FRUIT is my favorite bit of corporate-speak. SPUR OF THE MOMENT is clued as, as in a snap decision. I tell you, cold winters kill those things off. Linda Murgap, are you reading this? She’s another Texan with horrific centipede and scorpion tales. My favorite radical feminist blogger bills herself as a gentleman farmer and spinster aunt. made me suspect there was a 15-letter term for someone growing hydroponic pot in a basement, but it’s GENTLEMAN FARMER. I can’t say vinegar with ground pepper and shallots sounds appealing to me. I’ve never heard of MIGNONETTE SAUCE, which is an. They’re more than offset by the grandeur of the 15s, though: Once you lock in more than 100 squares, there’s not much leeway on the remaining fill, so there are some short answers in the “meh” category.
This grid looks like a bear to put together, with the four Across 15s run through by four vertical 15s.
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