![]() I am writing this on a new computer, and when choosing the language as English, it defaulted for spell-checking to British English. But it was SYCOPHANT that finally made me realise that the clues are just ANAGRAMs of the answers. Had cLUb before SLUG, and was wondering how cOTS throw things back, and what kind of BAR is a bOG_BAR - some variant of "boogie"? Good to know I shouldn't call that a DNF. After searching and failing to find that, my time was just average for a Wednesday, so I agree with the medium rating. My own day-um fault for not noticing the clue for ACNE. Wow, I had the same error as TAr crossing ACrE. Seth – very cool that you got REBORN under ANAGRAM, which is essentially letters reborn. You really will not regret going and hanging out with us. Get your (discounted!) room as soon as registration opens at the first of January or you might be hoofing it from some nearby hotel. (I feel the same way about smoking.) Here’s the link. These guys are badass heroes I from yesterday – c’mon! Get your gaucho-clad fanny to the ACPT this year! The Stamford Marriott has scotch. Like, there must be some euphemism these days, right? If you’re gonna tip anyone this season, tip your residential sanitation agent. But I feel uncomfortable calling him a GARBAGE MAN, though. He braves the mile-long, icky, one-lane gravel road every Thursday come hell or high water, and I’m beyond grateful. My garbage man truly must be one of the Greatest Of All Time. “They measure miles in meters” – the citizens of every country on this planet except the United States. It feels like saying that a weight-lifter’s asset is strength. A good aim is simply an asset for a sniper? Like their AIM is just a useful advantage? This guy has one job. The clue for AIM upstaged everything for me, though. So I liked this anagram theme more than the ones that just mix up letters in between words (“mixed greens,” say, with way ne gretzky, fir e grenade, led ger entry blah blah).įunny that SOT(S) rears its head again today in the north with SLUG, OENO, BAR, ALE TAP. But serendipitous anagrams are pretty cool: Maybe it’s because written language is so after-the-fact and arbitrary? I dunno. I have tried and tried to embrace anagrams, but they just don’t do it for me. I started rewriting corners out of boredom. I'm just surprised this theme is as badly executed and as poorly thought through as it is. That's a very, very loose category, but at least it's Something. First because of the THE, and second because jeez come on give the theme *some* kind of unifying principle at least let all the answers be *people*. But that SYCOPHANT clue is absolute GARBAGE, MAN. The others are at least all match, clue to answer, in terms of part of speech. This is to say you canNot have a verb phrase (i.e. ![]() If you're going to do this, the clues Have To Function As Real Clues Do (even if they are somewhat odd and wacky-ish). So the clues are the anagrams of the answers? Well whoop-dee-do! Also, no.
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