Sunday spinners today: six roundhouse blocks where three squares filled in for one clue have to be mentally rotated to work with the other direction. Fairly straightforward, if you allow for the turns. Heh.
The first two answers "revealed" by the spinning letters are nice and bleak: WHYD[OIB]OTHER (*"Oh, what's the point?"); and EMPT[YSP]ACES (*Voids). The rest are more neutral.
In fill, let's see, I like TREACLE (Cloying sentimentality) (I can relate...), UTTERROT (Tripe) (I like all parts of this one), TUNATACO (mmmm....), TRASHY (Like some mindless entertainment), THORNY (Like some stems and situations), and ACORNS (Stereotypical squirrel's stash). Heh... squirrels...
OK, is that enough talking about the puzzle? What I really want to say is that I finished puzzle five! No mistakes! I apologize for the self-aggrandizing, but I'm pretty happy about it. Of course, I think it was easier than the usual puzzle five... but I'm still going to take the win.
Today is the last puzzle, then the finals. I may write in later with a little recap.
- Horace
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