Today we've got a chromatic rhyming theme in a left-to-right symmetrical grid, with five colour-related rhyming phrases sprinkled throughout the puzzle, one split into two side-by-side answers (MELLOW / YELLOW, Donovan's hit song from 1966). I believe the entire point of this construction was the final theme clue, whose answer is ORANGEDOORHINGE - the closest humankind has ever come to a rhyme for the word 'Orange'. Ha! I bet Ms. Bosko thought long and hard about getting 'PURPLE' in there too, somehow.
So I RELISHed this puzzle, because of the refreshing symmetry and also because it put up more resistance than usual for a Tuesday. I was misled time and again - entering PETDOOR instead of AIRHOLE for 'Opening in a pet carrier' (#facePalm) and ODDBAL (yes, ODDBAL) not ODDONE for 'Quirky person'. Bogged me down from the get-go, it did. Fortunately, a few gimmies came to the rescue. 'I, on the periodic table' (IODINE) could have been clued as simply 'I', and maybe it would have, later in the week. I don't know Uno, but crying the name could only mean ONECARD. I still have a box of MEMOREX tapes somewhere with a bunch of '80s music on them. Nothing to play them on any more, sad to say. I was aware that Captain Kirk never actually said 'Beam me up, SCOTTY!' Didn't love LATISH ("Not quite on time") - just doesn't look right to me. I did like the clue for COLONS (appropriately, ': : : : : :') in a weird way.
What a disjointed, rambling review! Back at it tomorrow.....
-philbo
ORANGEDOORHINGE. Hmmmm.
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I laughed at the end rhyme, and yeah, that must have been the seed. Ha!
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