Today's theme, hidden in a clever pun, is all about food. Not just any food, but four dishes with something in common: each with two-word names, both words starting with the letter 'B'. A pretty innocent theme, really, though my mouth waters whenever I read BEEFBOURGUIGNON. Something succulent about the way the B's and the G's roll off the tongue ... but I digress. The revealer ties it together: "'Admittedly...', or when said aloud, a punny description of the theme answers" : TOBEFAIR. Get it? TWO-B FARE? I feel like I'm being one of those annoying people who ruin jokes by explaining their punchlines. Anyway. The best part of the theme today was this revealer.
Elsewhere - I liked the subtly punny "Pub brawl" (BARFIGHT), and OLGA Korbut brought back memories of watching the 1976 Olympics on our brand new tiny little black-and-white TV, where she was upstaged by the transcendent Nadia Comaneci. I liked the inventive cluing of CRATER ("Any facial feature of the man in the moon, in reality").
TSETSES ("Fearsome African flies") raised my eyebrows. I don't think this word really has a plural form, though I expect Google would prove me wrong, if I just went one tab over and looked ..
Not much else of note. Gentle, sub-three-minute Monday fare.
Onwards and Tuesday-wards!
-philbo
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