Fun theme today. Letters missing from the clues combine to spell part of the answer that describes a feature of the fully-spelled clue. How's that for complicated? It was much easier to figure out than it is to explain. For example, the clue for 36A is R_od_ Isl_n_ Red. The missing letters in the clue spell HEAD and a Rhode Island Red is a chicken, thus it's a HEADLESSCHICKEN. Pretty neat. I thought TIRELESSWORKER (22A: _ax_ d_iv_r) was the most amusing, but HAIRLESSDOG was the best because the clue was so bare (54A: _ _rr_e_)
BADASS, OPINE, and SHRED share the grid with the old favorites EELS, ERR, EPEE, and ADO.
~Frannie.
4:52
ReplyDeleteA very nice theme, and I enjoyed thinking about the missing letters, although I mostly got them through crosses rather than through puzzling it out.
Could there be an FSTOP EMOJI? What would it look like? Horace, any ideas?
I assume an FSTOP emoji would be an image much like one of these: https://www.shutterbug.com/images/styles/600_wide/public/promof6517.png
ReplyDeleteAgreed, fun theme.
7:35
ReplyDeleteI had to get the HAIRLESSDOG from crosses, having never heard of a harrier, but that's not too surprising as I'm not known for my love of animals, or at least the TAMED variety. IDEAS definitely had the best clue, far and away.
6:57
ReplyDeleteNeither had I ever heard of a harrier, but teIRLESSDOG didn't make sense.
And yeah, I guess the FSTOP emoji would have to be one of those that Kingdon links to, only cuted-up somehow.