Now this made me laugh. A sneeze is simulated by the ends of the theme answers:
BARMITZVAH - Coming of age ceremony
THECASBAH - Place "rocked" in a Clash song
CHEETAH - Animal that can go 0-60 in three seconds
JIMMYCHOO - Famed shoe designer
and the revealer, GESUNDHEIT, is at the bottom. Very nice. And unexpected. Like a sneeze. :)
Nice that DOJACAT ("Paint the Town Red" rapper) got in there. (I love that song), and alongside her in those vertical sevens at the bottom are such fine words as EPITOME (Textbook example), NEMESIS (Moby Dick, to Ahab), and ARMOIRE (Wardrobe). And I love the last one - STARTLE (Surprise). It's theme adjacent, and the clue is like a little comment from Mr. van Geel. (See also: "Oh SNAP!)
Loved it.
- Horace
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