BIG DRAW
Greetings, from Salerno, Italy, where many a COFFEERUN has been made, but where you won't find any giraffes. Unless it's WORLDGIRAFFEDAY and there is a cute one drawn into a specially-shaped 17x27 Sunday grid!
This puzzle didn't put up a ton of resistance in the Acrosses, and although there were some nice, long Downs, they tended to COMEEASY, as there were usually at least a few crosses in place. Things got trickier toward the bottom, with the uncommon CORNPIT (Farm play area) (?), LOTUSROOT (Starchy plant part in Asian cooking) and ALMONDOIL (Nutty extract), but again, crosses helped!
I enjoyed the not-often-seen BENTS (Natural predispositions) and BEHELD (Looked upon). Nice old-fashioned, slightly formal answers. Maybe BEARWITNESS (Testify) could be added to that group. All the Bs. And speaking of old-fashioned, I also enjoyed "Threads around a forum?" (TOGA). Hah! I will be at the Forum in Rome later this week, and I'll let you know if I see any togae.
"Spoke sheepishly" (BAAED) was fun, and I had never considered that fact that YODA was a "'Star Wars' character whose species is never named." And speaking of trivia, I was a little surprised that the word "ossicone" didn't make it into the grid.
- Horace
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