![]() ![]() or shortening signal somewhere in the clue-the term WINE REFRIGERATOR is the one I know-but I really like the clue, so. Seems like WINE FRIDGE should've had an abbr. Obviously literally the relationship is merely a mathematical one, but the "?" on the end of the clue feels like it's winking unethically at me. I guess it's "a" statistics teacher, not necessarily "your" statistics teacher. Speaking of creepy, not sure why you'd want to evoke a (presumably sexual / romantic) student-teacher "relationship" with your clue on RATIO (44A: Relationship with a statistics teacher?). I guess that's what they're calling Virgin Coladas now, since the whole "virgin" thing has begun to feel inappropriately sexual and (thus) maybe a little creepy? Anyway, the "rhyming" part sure helped. A less-than-ideal conclusion.Īs I say, I enjoyed the long Downs, though NADA COLADA is a pretty corny name for a drink ( 31D: Mocktail with a rhyming name). But instead I'm left with a NINETY-ONE trying to sell me on the idea that it's 9/1. Again, if the "solution" had been magnificent, if there'd been real pay-off, then my stupid struggles would've been forgotten as I marveled at the concept and execution. But no, we're dealing instead with a "jet" of. "Jet" is a common synonym for "black" in the literature I teach, so that was my go-to Other Jet. I knew the clue was a fakeout clue, so I thought that instead of an airplane, the "jet" in question was. Even when I pulled the "O" and looked at GE-SER, I couldn't see how any English word went there. ![]() Made me doubt EDEN (13A: Land next to the Land of Nod), which I thought was maybe ADEN (!?!?!), but still, stuck. Made me doubt GIG (5A: Short-term employment), but I couldn't get around it. Compounding this problem inordinately was the clue on GEYSER (5D: Jumbo jet?), a "?" I could not make sense of to save my life, esp. This felt so right that I never even saw that an actual number, NINETY-ONE, would fit there. Strugglewise, the very worst part came inside the "solution." That is, since there is no real clue on NINETY-ONE, I had NINET- and when NINETEEN wouldn't fit, I got some end letters and decided that the answer was NINE TO ONE. Otherwise I might still be wondering what NINETY-ONE has to do with anything. The only reason I arrived at this logic is because of the clue on DAY ( 42A: The 2 in 1/2, e.g.). which *I think* supposed to make us think of NINE / ONE or 9/1 or September 1, which is today's date. This extra math stuff had better lead somewhere! And where it leads is NINETY-ONE. As far as I'm concerned, every crossword has a "solution," and it's just. you're asking me to do math, which is like asking me to draw on my crossword when I'm done with it, which is to say: this Better Be Good. And yet even if my clues had been formatted perfectly. Not a big wrench in the system, but a wrench nonetheless. The whole time I'm thinking that the quotation marks have some. I thought this was some kind of adage, but then I just ended up with a tennis answer (from the scoring progression: love, fifteen, thirty, forty, ad in, game). The first problem was a technical one, which is that my software doesn't do italics so it put all the theme clues in "quotation marks," which made them much harder to interpret somehow. ![]()
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