The answer to the clue “Latin lovers, officially speaking?” is POPES, because they supposedly are lovers of the Latin language. The first is that it’s a proper noun, and the trickier reason is that his name is hidden (or veiled) at the beginning so that solvers will assume that it is merely the beginning of the sentence.Ĥ2D. A veiled capital clue - my favorite! “Bolt for the finish line?” is a bit stretchy, but the clue intends for solvers to figure out we are talking about the Olympic gold medalist Usain BOLT. It may be worth mentioning that there is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright named Will ENO, who has two appearances in the puzzle, but my hunch is that the entry was clued to the musician Brian in order to make 14A’s LEMON SAUCE a bit easier to solve.Ģ4D. With a whopping 305 appearances, he is slowly catching up to Yoko ONO, the celebrity with a three-letter name who still dominates with 398. Let’s give a warm welcome back to Brian ENO, a frequent presence in the New York Times Crossword. If you make a comment using your thumbs, however, you might be sending a TEXT.ĨD. My first thought about “Comment from one who’s all thumbs?” was that the answer might be “oops.” But this is a Friday puzzle, and the answer will not be so straightforward. This “Quaker of Pennsylvania?” is the quaking ASPEN.ĥ9A. There are two homophones in this clue: “sail” and “sale.” We have to figure out the word that can define both a “sail holder … or a sale holder.” The answer is YARD, as in YARD arm or YARD sale.Ģ7A. We’re supposed to be thinking about serving a dish on a BED of rice.ġ6A. “‘Bed in the kitchen?’ Who doesn’t have their bedroom in the kitchen? Or their bathroom in the living room? Space is expensive!” There’s a question mark at the end of this clue, however, so this is no Sealy Posturepedic we’re talking about. I bet that solvers in New York City and other large metropolitan areas did not even blink at this clue. The bracketed clue “” is meant to convey the meaning behind the answer, RAWR.ĥA. I’m not a betting person, but if I were, I would say that it’s 3D.ġA. Steinberg mentions in his notes below that he entertained himself by crossing 21A’s WHOOPEE CUSHION with an entry that connects that cushion with the last four letters of that answer. I’ll elaborate in the Tricky Clues section.īy the way, Mr. I liked IT’S DO OR DIE (I didn’t parse that correctly when I went back to look at my grid and felt sorry for the poor door), BRAIN GAME, ON THE TOWN, WHITNEY HOUSTON, LISTEN TO ME (another debut), UTTER BORES, WORK OF ART, RED HOTS, SO THEN (this may be seen as a partial by some, but it works for me as a stand-alone phrase), WHAMO, CARAWAY and AHOY THERE.Īnd that doesn’t even get into the punny cluing. Even without the butt jokes, there is a lot to like about Mr.
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