Clever BLINKERS theme today, where two letters in each Across themer and one in each Down blink on and off to make different answers. As in the answer LOVERDONE (Friend or family member / Clichéd) - in the first case, the R blinks out to make "loved one," and in the second the L steps out of the way of "overdone." And in the Downs, the L is involved in IDEAL (Perfect / Concept) and the R is in RANDRY (Was exhausted / Lustful). It's a lot to keep track of, and an impressive feat.
Aside from that, let's see... I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to guess what a "back tire burn" might mean in a drag show. See, I didn't read "drag race" correctly, and didn't get that they meant a literal back tire of a dragster. But I feel like I should write to RuPaul and ask him to turn it into a thing. "Make that back tire burn, girl!"... sigh. The things my mind gets up to.
They got me on "City on the Seine." I knew it wouldn't be Paris and it wasn't, but I still put it in and then had to change it to ROUEN. FORREAL. And speaking of France, ENGARDE (Them's fighting words!) was fun. And yesterday we had "saboteurs," today we have MARAUD. Are they trying to start something?
- Horace
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