What’s going on is that the themed vertical entries on the left side have their two Ls replaced with Rs and vice-versa for the right side. The central vertical entry suggests the theme mechanism: 8d MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL. Julian Lim’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “The Flip Side” - pannonica’s write-up Imagine my surprise when I finally saw folks playing, and it’s a different set of wings!
I don’t play board games, mostly for lack of opportunity, but I’d been hearing about Wingspan for quite a while, and was certain it was about planes. I highly recommend the museum (and the exhibit, if it’s still there) if you’re in that neck of the woods. I had the pleasure of strolling through an exhibit on Bruce Lee about a year ago at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle.
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While the Green Hornet TV series only ran for one season, it was Bruce Lee’s performance as KATO that brought the comic character more attention. So this may be a pretty constrained set that remains approachable and clear for solvers. I can’t think of too many other dances that lend themselves this way perhaps FIGHTING IRISH, INDIE GOGO, and something with -LINE. This is a nice idea for a theme, and the themers do well to use the “dance” words in meanings away from the dances.
I’m a fan of the symmetric placement of the 2- and 3-word themers. The final words of our themers are types of dance: Quick today, but say hi if you’re at Lollapuzzoola! Brandes’ USA Today crossword solution, “Last Dance,” Brandes’ USA Today crossword, “Last Dance”-Matthew’s write-up Raise your hand if you had “Tom’s Diner” in your head while entering this answer. 46D was one of the few very easy gets for me in this puzzle.Fill-in-the-blanks are often more associated with easy cluing, but boy does this get hard given that, before you have any crossings, it could be EAST, WITH, BEAT, TIME… Clues for her tend to focus on her acting achievements, so I enjoyed this angle. 40A for TEMPI: This is a tough one even if you realize right away that “scoring” is a musical reference, given the non-S plural.You can have BAR NUTS, but do you call an individual nut in those mixes a BAR NUT, or just whatever kind of nut it is (peanut, Brazil nut, walnut, etc.)? 31A is a BAR NUT, which felt a little GREEN PAINT-y to me.This one did fool me into thinking it was about legislation at first. 19A is SAIL BY, also in that tough NW corner.Especially since 1D didn’t fool me into thinking it was about truth-telling, but could easily be STOOD or the correct answer, AROSE, I couldn’t get a foothold in this area, which is unusual for me and one reason this puzzle as a whole is so hard. Especially since he’s apparently the only LAT constructor all year who can make me do battle - I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve gone past the 4-minute mark on an LAT puzzle this year. It’s lovely to know that Rich Norris is enjoying his retirement in part by still puzzling - now as a constructor and not the LAT editor! Back in the early to mid-aughts, Rich gave me a lot of great commentary when I first got into constructing, and I still have an extremely soft spot in my heart for him.
Rich Norris’s Los Angeles Times crossword - Stella’s write-up This could be a useful all-purpose gripe, no?
, “I’M AWARE.” I feel like this is best uttered with a withering stare. As in spotting someone who is lifting weights. Maintenance guys, maybe? One of the guys across the street from me is great because when Amazon misdelivers packages to his building’s mailroom, he takes it upon himself to trot the packages around to neighboring buildings to ring doorbells and leave the parcels in a secure spot for us. Chicago doesn’t call them supers, though. Super = a building superintendent with a master key to the apartments. Things I liked: THAT’S A FIRST, RELEASE DATE (“check release dates” is on my to-do list for work every couple weeks, mainly for movies and TV shows), IMAX THEATER, KWAME Nkrumah, MASTER KEY, HUGUENOTS (such an exotic word to encounter when I was young), a fun WATER RIDE, JAZZ DANCE, SHAZAM, ONLINE POKER (shout-out to crossworder Ben Bass!), MED STUDENTS, DESK JOB, FUTZ, and BAZOOKA bubble gum. And the center swath with stagger-stepped 9s, a thing of beauty. I had some doubts about this grid since the NW and SE corners are fairly cut off from the rest of the venture, but it ended up not posing any trouble to me. Andrew Linzer’s New York Times crossword-Amy’s write-up
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