7/3/2023 0 Comments Tempest site crossword![]() I did like BRAVOSTING.īut THEPRINCESSANDTHEPAPA is not a correct answer to its clue. YANKEEBOTHER is also a correct answer to its clue, though much less amusing than the previous one. One big problem with the themes is that the relationship of answer to clue is inconsistent.īOSTONTANGOPARTY is a correct and clever answer to "Ballroom dancing event for Beantown residents." Make Sundays Better!!!!! Better than ALIENEEEEEEEEE argh. Better to make PAPA refer to the Goldilocks bear (rawrrrr!!!). I realize that particular themer was probably a bear (rawr!!!) to clue, but is particularly clunky. What does the THE PRINCESS AND THE PAPA clue even mean? If you take your daughter to work, she doesn't actually have a job title. The cluing here and all over is just ugly. LINUS, no? SCHROEDER, no? PIGPEN, no? CHARLIE!?!?!?! Yeah, they're always calling him "Charlie," that totally checks out (/sarcasm). I had _ WORLD and despite being an avid "Peanuts" fan had no idea what boy could fit there. No one who knows / loves "Peanuts" would clue CHARLIE (all on its own) as a "'Peanuts' boy." He's Chuck, or he's full-name Charlie Brown. ![]() ANYA shmanya, what was that? And here's the thing that really irks me. To me, LODI is a wine region in California. I struggled over dumb stuff like, uh, OLAF or OLAV, and CRT or LCD, and IRA / ARI or ARI / IRA. I think I should just cut out now, because the more I look at this, the less I like it. I don't even know what a BEAR PIT is, non-metaphorically, and I've never heard anyone use it as a metaphor for politics. BEAR PIT!?!?!?! What kind of messed up person uses that (whatever that is) for a quote unquote metaphor. What are HAT TREES? Are those like hat racks? ETHENE? UPTREND? Honestly, these are the *high*lights. What is an ANYA? ( 99D: Reformed demon on"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"). TOP-LINE? What the heck is that? ( 57D: Five-star) Also, who knows or cares about the NATO / PHONETIC ALPHABET? At all? The only reason I know anything about it, the only place I ever see it mentioned, ever, is. The 7+ non-theme stuff is scant and dull. I don't think there's a single answer in this grid that made me smile or think "ooh, nice." Not one. I honestly didn't fully "get" the theme until I was done, even with the revealer completely filled in. The theme answers and (especially) theme clues on this one are so tortured, so unfunny, that this felt much more like a chore than a treat. Well the glorious four-day streak of enjoyable puzzles comes to a crashing end with this one. The number of Horae varied according to different sources, but was most commonly three: either the trio of Thallo, Auxo and Carpo (goddesses of the order of nature) or Eunomia (goddess of good order and lawful conduct) and her sisters Dike (goddess of Justice) and Eirene (goddess of Peace). In Greek mythology the Horae ( / ˈ h ɔː r iː/ ) or Horai ( / ˈ h ɔː r aɪ/ ) or Hours ( Greek : Ὧραι, Hōrai, pronounced, "Seasons") were the goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of time. ![]() Word of the Day: HORAE ( 12D: Greek goddesses of the seasons). "sea") WORLD (100A: *Amusement park named after a "Peanuts" boy?) "bee"), STING (85A: *Exclamation after a performance of "Every Breath You Take"?) "pea") (67A: *Duo ruling a kingdom on Take Your Daughter To Work Day?) ![]() "you") BET (47A: *Wager in which the winner gets the loser's pants and jersey?) "why") BOTHER (33A: *Annoying member of a New York baseball team?) ![]() "tea") PARTY (22A: *Ballroom dancing event for Beantown residents?) THEME: "Code Switching" - familiar words with letter homonyms in them have those homonyms switched to the NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET equivalents for those homonyms, creating wackiness etc. ![]()
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