In the commuting life, I am now writing this blog post from the living room of our apartment on the Upper West Side. The view out the window is across Broadway towards Central Park (which I can't see).
What an odd Monday puzzle theme! The revealer is in the middle at 36A, with the answer PALINDROMES. Only we're not really dealing with palindromes in the starred answers. They're palindromes as long as you ignore the first and last letter. So is this a thing? PEPELEPEW does in fact have the form _EPELEPE_. Okay, I'm sort of impressed that our constructors have found six examples of this, and it's a lot of theme material for a 15 x 15 grid. But still, more mildly interesting than "aha" or "haha." Which are the same word if you ignore the first letter of the second one...
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| MORDOR |
Of course, with all of that theme material, the puzzle needs a ton of black squares, and the longest non-theme answer is only 8 letters. There's more crosswordese than we're used to nowadays. I don't think Zsa Zsa GABOR has made an appearance in quite some time. Add in OOO, APBS, EDYS, SKOR, and OUTLIE, and you get what I'm talking about.
I will raise a glass to 46A: Their are too in this clue (TYPOS).
On to tomorrow.
- Colum
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