![]() The pale phosphorescence of the carvings gleaming on his naked limbs, Tsabrak spat venom onto his blade. She spat at the van, watched the spittle hit pavement, freeze into a lump of pearlized glue chip. The next Mong, who had been waiting patiently, squatting with his hands bound behind him, spat in contempt and moved, into place at the edge of the ditch.įergus Appleton is a fine-looking guy of maybe forty, with iron-gray hair that makes him appear very romantic, and he is always well dressed in spats and one thing and another, and he smokes cigarettes in a holder nearly a foot long, and wears a watch on one wrist and a slave bracelet on the other, and a big ring on each hand, and sometimes a monocle in one eye, although Ambrose Hammer claims that this is strictly the old ackamarackuss. The bullocky spat and waved back, staring openly at Garnet, who had clasped her hands in her lap.Ĭastro unbuckled himself, leaned over, and spat on Manso again, square in the face. They are dying out day by day in such manner that I fear greatly to see these illustrious fragments of the ancient breviary spat upon, staled upon, set at naught, dishonoured, and blamed, the which I should be loath to see, since I have and bear great respect for the refuse of our Gallic antiquities. It's rare that a sound change puzzle tickles my fancy, though, so I did appreciate the good quality and quantity of themers.No longer protected by anthropocentric gods and goddesses, reason gone flat in its happy capacity to explain away the Mystery, not yet delivered into the hands of the superconsciouswe stare out blankly into that dark and gloomy night, which will very shortly swallow us up as surely as it once spat us forth. ![]() ![]() Hard to save that last one with any clue. Going up to 140 words would undoubtedly have helped.Ĭertain ones felt particularly egregious, too - the Maleskan ITER and ADOLF. Usually, I don't mind if there are bits of glue dabbed over the puzzle - and Alan does well not to concentrate it in any one spot - but there's just so much in total that it felt like it should have been reworked for a smoother overall feel. I don't feel like it's worth it, if you have to use so much crossword glue. But it's so hard to do while retaining smooth fill. I admire that Alan strives to do more, consistently dipping under 140 words in his Sunday puzzles (this one is at 136). Way too much dragged down the quality of my solving experience. I stopped counting at about ten - ERNO, GTS, ADEE, ISTH, LEU, DEO, MST, and so on - and I still had half the puzzle to go. It felt like everywhere in the puzzle, I got bogged down by an abundance of crossword glue. I wasn't as hot on the short fill, though. These good mid-to-long entries helped keep my attention. Not every Sunday puzzle has to be (or should be) groundbreaking, and as a solver, I welcome sharp examples of tried and true theme types.Ī couple of nice bonuses in the fill, TIDY SUM, AQUALUNG, FIRE AWAY, PRO TEAM. Sound change puzzles often don't do much for me, but I enjoyed today's results as a whole. ATTILA THE HONEY flips Attila amusingly on his head. OFF THE MARQUEE had a great spelling change (MARK to MARQUEE), as did TABLE TENNESSEE (TENNIS to TENNESSEE). ![]() TAKING THE FIFTH interpreted as "add the fifth letter of the alphabet, E, to base phrases, with kooky results." I enjoyed a good number of them: HOT CROSS BUNNY gave a funny image.
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