Wow! What a way to end the week. I very much enjoyed this debut (!) puzzle from young Mr. Aaronson. So many good entries, and so much tricky cluing! I'm not quite sure where to start... so I guess I might as well start at the beginning.
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Coming off of all that, ABOSYSTEM (It describes your type) (blood type) was a challenge! As was the other total unknown (to me) RLSTINE (Author of "One Day at HorrorLand"). And YESSIREEBOB ("Indubitably") was fun, but its symmetrical counterpart WORLDWARIII (Potential cause of the apocalypse) was a little too "real" today.
I had "Strait" clogging things up for a while in the SW, where the excellent SLUICE (Waterway) belonged, and after the SWEARWORD up top, I was in the wrong mindset when I came to "Blue Words" (IMSAD). The three Ss are fun in MISSSAIGON, and they kind of mirror the cluster of Ss in YESSIREEBOB and OGRESS.
I found the whole thing a BEGUILING challenge. For me, the CLAPOMETER is in the red zone, and I'll be watching for Mr. Aaronson's byline in the future!
- Horace
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ReplyDeleteThis was a great one, and not only did I notice that telescOpe fit in where SWEARWORD belongs, I entered it. So that led to some problems. As Horace mentions, HAMBURGLAR was a gimme, and once I saw the reference to CPR and its sister clue at 3D leading to EMTS, I realized that I'd have to rethink my original guess at 1A. Now I know what the oft-heard SUZETTE means; always nice to learn something in a puzzle. I'd never heard the modern slang TURNT, but now I know that, too. Really, though, there was quite a bit that I was able to drop in from the clues, so TOADEGREE, this wasn't terribly difficult. RLSTINE is kind of a horror-lite author for kids, so I'm familiar with him as my own offspring had a couple of his books. And obvie, ABFAB went right in, as did things like RYDERCUP, OGRESS (off of telescOpe), LIKEBUTTON, GHENT, IGOR and several others. I tried whAM where BLAM belongs, but the crosses eventually fixed that up.