A solid Friday puzzle pinned by two grid spanners running through the middle. ONAPOSITIVENOTE ("Bad news aside ...") is, well, positive, but I have never heard anyone use the term DARKESTTIMELINE (Worst of all imaginable chronologies). That could well just be me, though. Speaking of, I'm not sure I run with a crowd that uses DEADASS (Seriously, in modern slang) either. I'm getting up to the age where people are more likely to be talking about PARTB (Medicare subsection covering ambulance services). But before we get off of the topic of ass, if you haven't already seen it, this is pretty funny.
But back to the puzzle. The clue for ORCA (Sea creature known to mourn its dead) is troubling, isn't it? Elephants do this too, and crows. More and more we are made to realize that we are not the only animals on Earth who have emotions. And while this should not be surprising, since we sometimes act as though other humans have no emotions, every time I hear it, it makes me emotional.
I thought the clue for REOIL (Start to season, as a skillet) didn't work well, but there were several others that were clever and/or fun, to wit, "Sticker that usually comes in sets of three or four?" (PRONG), "Get to the point?" (TAPER), "Stop being such a baby" (GROWUP), "What's going around?" (GIRTH), and the classic "Student center" (DEE). Ahhh ... crosswords.
- Horace
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