Having just completed Tuesday's puzzle and kicked off this blog, I confess I didn't get what the theme was - I had to go back and review. Yes, that's me, your trusty HALFBAKED reviewer... The theme answers today show four different ways a thing (or person) can be half-baked:
- By the sun - BIKINITAN. This one doesn't sit quite right with me, as surely this suggests a "baked" level of much more than half?
- In the oven - LAVACAKE.
- By one's stoner friends - CONTACTHIGH.
- By an overactive mind - WILDIDEA.
Nice construction! In my re-review, I saw TIT for the first time, having evidently gotten it from the crossers, and took a guess at how it was clued before actually looking. Got it wrong - it's "Small songbird", not "__ for tat" (nor anything else).
Overall this went quickly for me. I entered VIDI instead of ISAW as the middle part of Caesar's boast, as I bet many of you also did, which was a minor snarl, and DRYLY instead of DRILY ("In a deadpan manner") - this sort of thing always seems to trip me up. I liked the Richard Feynman shout-out - as an old Physics guy, Feynman's always been a hero of mine. We may have come across Ted CHIANG in another crossword some months back, so I may be repeating myself here : if you like sci-fi/speculative fiction, I highly recommend this guy's short stories.
I really should sit down and watch MADMAX some day.
Have to cut it short today. A la prochaine!
-philbo
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