This week starts off with a straightforward, quick-solve puzzle with a theatrical theme. Working down the grid, we encounter..
- ERECTORSET ("Meccano offering for budding builders")
- ORALSTAGE ("Human's earliest phase, according to Freud")
- IRONCURTAIN ("Metaphorical Cold War barrier")
- TURBOPROP ("Small aircraft for short flights")
OK, not going to lie - before even a minute had gone by, besides ERECTORSET and ORALSTAGE, I also had RACY ("Titillating") and SEXIEST ("Like the man on an annual People magazine cover") entered in the grid, and I was really starting to get the wrong idea about the theme...
Aside from entering SATIRE instead of SENDUP for "Humorous parody", which led to a bit of a mess in the middle of the grid, I didn't encounter any sticky spots today. I'd never heard of Brooklyn's MEDGAR Evers College, but the crossers came to my rescue there.
Otherwise I got nuthin'. Just a gentle few minutes with pen and paper. On to Tuesday!
-philbo
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