Separation is the theme today in an engaging, fun debut by Mr. Pandey, the key answers being two monster-type showdowns and the dissolution of a relationship, the latter movie (Kramer vs. Kramer) I vaguely recall as being very sad. I mentioned in yesterday's post that I tend to leave theme answers to the end, but today's theme jumped out at me and definitely helped move things along. I liked how the last theme answer was a departure from the tone set by the first two!
Aside from the theme, I found the clues mostly straightforward. Interesting idea to clue TRAP as a "hip-hop subgenre", which I had not known, and which made the NE corner more challenging. I liked PUTT ("Green movement"), which was clever. Don't you usually reflexively look for where ECO fits into an answer, when you see the word "Green" in a clue? Other than that, there wasn't a lot of a punnish or misdirecting nature.
I will be trying to get these posts out in the evenings, to avoid the CHAOS of my working day; I work at AFFIRM which PUTTs my NOSE to the grindstone. Not in a VIAL way, mind you. As you can see, AZURE am trying to channel Frannie, here. Is that such a GRIME?
OK, OK, I'll BREAKITUP. A demain, mes amis!
-philbo
Hah! Very nice work today. If you keep this up, Colum will be angling to change the order again so he can follow me! :P
ReplyDeleteOh by the way - 3:37. And I did notice, but forgot to mention, that the finished grid was two letters short of a pangram (missing J and Q I think)...
ReplyDeleteOh dear. The punning is contagious, I'm afraid.
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