Rounding out my week of blogging is this delightful gem of a Saturday puzzle, which took many minutes of steady pressure to bring to heel. Numerous juicy stacked long Across clues including a triple stack in the centre, lots of misdirection - great weekend fare, this!
Nothing was jumping out at me until the very middle, where "Sentimental feelings" had to be WARMFUZZIES, but I couldn't think of a three letter word for "Catch" with a U in the middle, so I had that erased for a while until finally RUB sprang to mind. Ordinarily I'd be off to the races with a long answer like that in place, but not today - nothing else was immediately obvious and it took a lot of forward and backward before things started revealing themselves. When "Chew the doors, e.g." in the SE corner finally revealed itself as the excellent SPOONERISM, followed right below by the "Green-tinted cocktails" APPLETINIS, I felt relief, and shortly after, I figured out that "Lacked pop" was HADNOOOMPH, which may be the first time I've seen a triplet of 'O's in a grid.
Had some uncertainty about the spelling of WOOKIEES, inspired apparently by George Lucas' dog. I liked the math-y SINE and RATIO in close proximity at the top. I think we've seen that clue for SINE recently ("1, for 90 degrees") - one of the ACPT puzzles maybe? And BOOMROASTED as a "burn" expression is about an entire generation separated from me, I think.
I have to cut this short as I am on the road all day tomorrow (it's Friday night as I write this). If you are reading this and you've done the puzzle, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
Cheerio!
-philbo
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