And so we come to the themeless portion of the week. This was a breezy one. Got off to a good start with CESAR ("Oscar" of the French film industry), and it was off to the races.
I don't usually enjoy paired clues where the second part appears in the puzzle before the first, but in the case of HOP LINDY today, I thought it kind of worked like a dance.
There were some missteps - I had LINTfilter before LINTSCREENS (Traps in a laundry room), and HOLYMOlEy before HOLYMOSES ("Yowzers!"), and I guessed Apnea before ALARM for "Dream interrupter," but overall, this didn't put up too much of a fight. Clues like "They're cut to defuse an explosive" (WIRES) and "Gas brand whose name sounds like two letters of the alphabet" (ESSO) seemed almost too easy for a Friday. WTF?
"Cue ... or queue" (LINE) was beautiful, "It might be a lot" (ACRE) was cute, and it took me ages to get "They're filled with bacon" (ATMS). I briefly considered "pigs." Hah!
Sometimes an easier-than-usual Friday leads to a killer Saturday. Here's hoping!
- Horace
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