I should probably throw in the towel. I FWOEd on YOUHADONEJOB ("All I asked for was that simple thing!"), and it seems oh so appropriate because yesterday I missed a really important and beautiful element of the puzzle - that all the "migrating" parts of the words that dropped down in the grid were birds! How could I miss that? Instead I tried to add an element that totally wasn't there - that of the bent words looking like geese? They didn't even! Why am I even doing this? I am a PSEUDO-blogger. I know this stuff isn't LIFEORDEATH, but I really ought to be thrashed about the head with a POOLNOODLE. OK. ENDOFRANT.
OXYMORONIC (Like tough love?) is always fun (military intelligence, civil war, unbiased opinion), and FRANCE (Country described in "One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese") was a gimme. As was JAMESJOYCE (Irish novelist celebrated on Bloomsday (June 16)).
I am one of those "Givers of priceless gifts" (ORGANDONORS), or, that is to say, I one day will be. Hopefully not too soon, POR favor. And my friend ORS had a company called ORYX once. He's one or two companies beyond that now.
I don't know. This one seemed a mix of easy and hard for me. How's that for hard-hitting, insightful blogging?
- Horace
Oh, no! Never give it up, Horace. It's so worth it to see your rants. I enjoyed this puzzle a ton. Loved OXYMORONIC, TOOBIGTOFAIL, and YOUHADONEJOB. And of course, lovely BABAR. Not at all imperialistic or colonialization tinged. Nope.
ReplyDeleteAgree! Horace, I also missed the avian nature of those Down components, and I too am a blogger. A novice one, but nevertheless.
DeleteI remember listening to Babar records as a kid. There was one track in particular that involved evil rhinoceroses. I cringe, looking back, at what that was thinly veiling.
You're a fine blogger, Horace o' mine! I really enjoyed this puzzle, too. Nice 'n smooth, with terrific cluing. Didn't know BUD ICE, but the crossings were kind. Ditto with ANDOR. Really nice time.
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