I’ve seen PWN before (often!), and understood what it meant in context, but by itself, I’m totally lost as that what it means. Is that still a thing? Regardless, I enjoyed uncovering it! I remember hearing that term some years back, but haven’t heard it since. I totally forgot GALENTINE was a thing… so I got hung up there for a while. But I want some harder clues!īilly Bratton’s Universal Crossword, “Universal Freestyle 18″- Jim Q’s write-up To paraphrase what she said of the winning gown to the best of my memory, she said “It is a little bit boring, but I will make it not boring.” Love her!) (My favorite Iman moment was when the final pre-Fashion Week Project Runway season 2 challenge was to design her a dress to wear to an event, and the results were serviceable but underwhelming. 47D is a cluing angle I’ve taken myself for IMAN - I appreciate highlighting her accomplishments as a businesswoman, which she’s perhaps not as well known for as for being a (fabulous!) model.Cardio can die forever as far as I’m concerned. Rowing is an aspect of CrossFit I should like better than I do: I’m reasonably tall (5’7″) and I have very strong legs, so I should be a kickass rower and I’m merely a mediocre one. 29D I’m never going to complain about ERG being clued with reference to the rowing machine.

Art nerd me was here for the lady painter reference! I say “interesting” rather than “fresh” because although it is a fresh angle, Gentileschi was active in the 17th century and is thus more old-timey.

2D was a nice way to make that old standby, the LUTE, feel interesting.

I’d never heard of 51A AROMARAMA, but the clue tells you exactly what’s going on and you learn something as a solver without having to look anything up after the fact.

I liked the echoic feel of 27A GET A LIFE, 26A GIVE A BOOST, and 31D NEED A HAND in the same puzzle.

That being said, there are some nice highlights here: I do hope this isn’t an indication that the Varol era means the LAT themelesses are going to get easier! A gal needs a workout sometimes. Uh-oh…that’s two sub-three-minute Saturdays in a row. Los Angeles Times 4/30/22 by Lindsey Hobbs Lindsey Hobbs’s Los Angeles Times crossword - Stella’s write-up

(I don’t think I care that Steinbeck’s in a clue when STEIN’s in the grid.) Just me? This is about giving a toast while hoisting a glass of beer, not a champagne toast. I’m a fan of names that start with the letters REYNA… My husband’s a soccer fan so I remembered Claudio (but forgot his last name for a good while) never heard of Gio. So a non-Vietnamese person can easily go astray in trying to identify the given and family names in a four-part name. I wish I knew where I read it so I could share the link! At any rate you might be interested in learning about Vietnamese naming conventions-the family name and the given name can each be a pair of names, and there’s often but not always a middle name between them. I recently read something outlining some different naming customs around the world, such as the Chinese placing the family name first instead of the GIVEN NAME, cultures that don’t combine a family name and a given name at all, and assorted other traditions. Why would anyone need to know this? Also, “name” is part of the next entry: This is not fun trivia, is it? It’s not as if his middle initial even shows up on his book covers. I was thinking of what people do at 5 pm, but this is about saving for retirement. , TANKA, before, but needed all the crossings here. Georges here apparently was a theorist of revolutionary syndicalism, about which I know nothing at all. I do know the Sorel boots brand, and bought some Sorel slippers in Minnesota. Less keen on AVI-, ALERO, ERNST, OATERS, and STENO, along with verb + preposition/adverb phrases HAD UP and RUN TO.ĭid not know: 13d. Eventually I came back to finish the corner from the bottom up, with a BOG and BANG-bang.įave fill: “NEVER FELT BETTER,” GREW DIM, SCRAWL, GAME SHOW NETWORK, OWLISH, BARBED WIRE FENCE, AMBER (far more interesting as the resin/gem than as a color-as clue here-though), “ HARD PASS,” the awesome comics term GRAWLIX, POT BROWNIE, and GOING ONCE. seemed worded in such a way as to rule out DIG, and I couldn’t think of a D word that fit the clue. The 1a/1d pair stopped me cold, so I had to start elsewhere. This puzzle played like a more-difficult-than-average Saturday NYT. NY Times crossword solution, 4 30 22, no.

Portrait painter crossword