Nice ten-stacks in the NW and SE, and an interesting middle, with that grid-spanner and weird little channels of staggered threes. But it all flowed smootly enough. I was happy that I had just put a picture of AYOEDEBIRI in the review recently! I don't watch "The Bear," but because of that photo (and, of course, her inclusion in Tuesday's puzzle), was familiar with her name, which helped with "Producers of stains" (SINS). That I was my last square.
SPEEDTRAPS (Things feared in the 80s and 90s?) was fun. Ish. It also reminds me that I still have to pay Hertz for having incurred a speeding ticket while driving one of their vehicles... DEEPSIGH. And I questioned a COMMA as a "Common component of a date" until I entered the date at the top of the review, like I have done for over a decade. Hah. I was thinking of things like "4/25/25" not "Friday, April 25, 2025." DEEPSIGH.
I hadn't realized that nine presidents were UNWED while in office. I thought Buchanan was the only unwed president - and while it's true that he was the only one who never married, four others were widowed prior to becoming president (Jefferson, Jackson, Arthur & Van Buren), three had their wives die while they were president (Tyler, Harrison, Wilson), and Cleveland entered the White House a bachelor, but about halfway through his first presidency, he married a 21-year-old whose upbringing he had supervised. He was 49 at the time. No one was disturbed by this, apparently. Frances Folsom was still a college student when she married him and she remains the youngest First Lady ever. They had five kids, the first of whom, Ruth, died of diptheria at twelve. And it is that Ruth, not Babe Ruth, who is famously purported to be the namesake of the Baby Ruth candy bar.
- Horace
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