A fun Friday puzzle is always a good way to start off the weekend. And yes, I'm calling it the weekend even though I still have a full day of work to get through. Why not? Things are what you make of them, are they not?
The fun started immediately at 1-Across with TRASHPANDA (Humorous nickname for a raccoon), and falling just below that are WERESODEAD ("Uh-oh, our parents will kill us!") and IWASNTDONE ("You interrupted me ..."). A solid stack of tens if I ever saw one. It kind of locked in DANE (2022 Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard, for one) (Timely!) and ADEN (Port city that's an anagram of 9-Down), but the clues for both were lively.
RIDEORDIE (One who's loyal to a fault) was very tricky for this solver, as was EIDMUBARAK (Festive Islamic greeting) ("blessed feast/festival"), but they were helped by fun crosses like GOO (Infant's interjection) (Ha!), and REFS (Play checkers, informally). I spent waaaayyyy too much time thinking about the game of checkers before realizing that they were talking about referees. Sheesh!
So, all in all, interesting entries, fun clues, wide open corners... perfect Friday.
- Horace
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