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By the way, BRIGANTINE is probably the etymological root of the term BRIG for a ship's prison. This is one of those great party-size themes that we encounter now and then on a Sunday, where there are piles of examples, as evidenced by Mr. Ross's notes below, and which hopefully inspires your own inventions once you've grasped the concept. They also were dis- or de- adjectives (alternating) that have meanings unrelated to the profession, creating good wordplay. Babe who never lied. I remember a few, including a great nautical puzzle, and I think of Mr. Ross as a very elegant and intricate constructor — today's grid has two theme spans and a lot of very bright fill that made it a fun solve. There are seven theme entries today, running across at 22, 29, 46, 63, 83, 100 and 111. Green paint (n. )— in crosswords, a two-word phrase that one can imagine using in conversation, but that is too arbitrary to stand on its own as a crossword answer (e. g. SOFT SWEATER, NICE CURTAINS, CHILI STAIN, etc.

I figured it was O. K. because I have had more than a few batteries die on me. Subscribers can take a peek at the answer key. Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium (normal Tuesday time, but it's 16 wide, so... must've been easier than normal, by a bit). Lastly, [Scalp] does not equal RESELL. Someone who works with an audience. Babe who never lied - crossword clue. I winced my way through this one, from beginning to end. ANKLE INJURY (66A: Serious setback for a kicker).

This also was true of BRIGANTINE and CASEY KASEM, two unusual long entries that made the chunky bottom left corner fillable. I was inspired by a slightly related joke category: "Old___ never die, they just …" e. g., "Old cashiers never die, they just check out. Some very brief entries were gotchas, like EPA (I thought Carter set up this agency) and BAA, of all things, simply because I'd only thought of cotes as housing doves. Anyway, if you are so moved, there is a Paypal button in the sidebar, and a mailing address here: ℅ Michael Sharp. Crossword clue babe who never lied. RARE GEM, which has never appeared in a Times puzzle before, just came to me and helped complete a difficult area. The word RESELL has No Such Connotation. I hear Florida's nice. The good news was that with seven theme entries I was able to have a lower word count (134) for this puzzle. Once we reached into the 70s and 80s with BEEPERS, entertaining UTAHANS and MCDLTS, I was on a bit firmer ground. Someone who works with class. Or my favorite, at 100A, the "Unemployed rancher, " or DERANGED CATTLEMAN, which made me think so much of this old song, for some reason.

24D: Perhaps this entry defines itself, as it's a debut today, RARE GEM. I value my independence too much. They each define a person with a particular career, who has been removed from that particular career; their specific state of unemployment can be expressed as a pun. That's one shy of his Sunday golden jubilee, and it puts him in fine company. 72A: I was briefly flummoxed by the clue here and looked for a question like "Where were you, " that would have been in response, or something like "Am I late? " Of course the parameter of matching word lengths for symmetry also went into the choices. Trying to get back to the puzzle page? RADIO RANGE (52A: Aerial navigation beacon). If you're feeling at all distempered right now, the rest of the entries include: Someone who works with nails. Today was a day when my mental repository of names came up short, so I struggled with BEAMON, CULP, THIEU and a couple of others; I did appreciate solving BABE and then getting THE BAMBINO, and I'll take any reference to LASSIE that I can get, the cleverer the better. Today's puzzle is Randolph Ross's 49th Sunday contribution (he's made 110 puzzles, according to, in total). Moving from interior design to fashion design... just doesn't have pop.

This year is special, as it will mark the 10th anniversary of Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle, and despite my not-infrequent grumblings about less-than-stellar puzzles, I've actually never been so excited to be thinking and writing about crosswords. This resulted in lots of longer-fill entries involving some less common words and phrases. Since these theme entries were on the long side I was restricted to seven; usually I like eight or nine theme entries. Just put it in a crosswordese retirement community with ERLE Stanley Gardner and Perle MESTA and other fine people who shouldn't be allowed near crosswords any more. There's also the obscurity / strangeness RADIO RANGE (which I would've thought meant how far a radio signal reaches) and the utter green paint* of ANKLE INJURY.