![]() ![]() Solid, acceptable work, even if I was irked more than I was scintillated. Boo, literature! Tough, but ultimately fair. But then I totally blanked on O'BRIEN (38A: Winston's tormenter in "1984"). One of my first certain entries (besides TACO) was EDMOND (21A: _ Dantès, the Count of Monte Cristo). I think of the former as dishonest, self-serving talk and the latter as simply a specialized language. ![]() I didn't know "Cant" and ARGOT could be synonyms. RERUN for REAIR (14A: Show in syndication, say). America, and so I was thinking LAPAZ or SUCRE at 1A: Capital south of Lake Volta ( ACCRA). On my first pass through the top, answers were pretty sparse. Musical trio refers not to the players but the notes. Antarctica is ARID (not whatever cold-related adj comes most readily to mind. The thing that might crash and break is a WAVE. Boo.Ĭluing was generally hard, mostly by being vague. "Tease" sounds like something a jerk (or SCHMO or NIMROD, apparently) might call a woman he *thought* was flirting with him when she turns him down. The others are all spot-on, but, while one might (I guess) "tease" in an attempt to flirt, most flirting I've seen / heard of / experienced has not involved "teasing." That is a subset of flirting, if it's anything. Also, "Tease" is not a very precise clue for FLIRT WITH. IS THAT SO, THAT SO, even DAT SO is better than the gratuitously Z-laden abomination we have here today. Who has that in their database? Remove it right now. With some superdumbass stuff like SPYFI (really?) (check out this ultra-not-legit-looking wikipedia page) ( 47D: "Mission: Impossible" genre) and especially IZZAT SO? ( 43D: "Oh, really?!") Stop. Nice to have a challenge on a Thursday, though I can't say the experience was that pleasant. I've seen the "say the letters, get a word" conceit several times before.
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