Besides, I refuse to believe that the right answer isn’t Kelley - The day Natick crossed NC Wyeth the clue was something like “city at mile X of the Boston Marathon.” It really should change its name to “The Natick Marathon.” For the ERA clue an indie might add something like “word I’m tired of cluing.” Somehow I find that less off-putting than the self-referential “Most Common” clue we got for ERA. That clue did manage to get a smile from me. If you have been to McDonalds you’ve experienced the FRENCH FRY in the bottom of the bag phenomenon. You often get that sort of personal feeling from the cluing. ![]() The FRENCH FRY clue is right out of the independent puzzle vibe. Which ties to RUSSIAN ROULETTE nicely because what the NRA is busy hiding is that the mostly likely person to die from a gun is the gun’s owner, the next most likely person is someone in the gun owner’s family. That’s I’s issue, and it centers more around cluing him positively rather than him appearing in the puzzle, as I recall. Just an “Oof! Really?” start to the - I don’t think Rex has ever ranted about CHE Guevara. Sitting here having my morning coffee, having read about UNC dealing with student suicides (poorly, but most institutions do) over the past few days, reading all kinds of depressing stories around National Coming Out Day, that first themer was grimace inducing. This really is a one-joke, one-note, one-moment puzzle. but then through the middle things are OK, until we touch down with a jarring THUD at SNEE AGLET (which sounds like a sleepy coastal New England town where spooky things are about to happen.). Felt kind of crosswordesey from the jump, starting with AM(which vowel will it be?}N RA and then SIS ALI INS NIELS ECO IRENE IWO across the top. That's an editing problem, though, not a constructing one. All that after having, as I say, encountering almost zero resistance in the rest of the grid. No idea about E-SPORT, wasn't sure if it was LUTE or LYRE (43D: U-shaped stringed instrument), thought COCOA might be served at the ski resort ( 47A: Hot drink at a ski resort = TODDY), had to infer TOPO as I've never seen that as a stand-alone answer ever ( 62A: Map with elevation lines, in brief), and wrote in FEES before DUES (40A: Club charges). But *then* I hit the SW corner, and since I didn't look at the LEAD PIPE clue early (would've helped), I ended up balking at a ton of stuff in there. I didn't fail to get a single answer at first glance until ALLITERNATION (not surprising, as it's not a word), and then I had a couple of minor need-to-check-crosses slow-downs with SOURCE (46D: Listing in a footnote) and PEACE ( 64A: Informal goodbye), but those were bumps I barely registered. There's also a weird irregularity to the difficulty, in that the vast majority of the puzzle is sub-Monday-level easy. He has written film scores and the music for an award-winning British Airways television commercial. A longtime fundraiser for public television, Yanni's compositions have been used on commercial television programs, especially for sporting events. Yanni has performed in more than 30 countries on five continents, and through late 2015 had performed live in concert before more than 5 million people and had accumulated more than 40 platinum and gold albums globally, with sales totaling over 25 million copies. 1 in Billboard's "Top New Age Album" category, and two albums ( Dare to Dream and In My Time ) received Grammy Award nominations. At least sixteen of Yanni's albums have peaked at No. His breakthrough concert, Live at the Acropolis, yielded the second best-selling music concert video of all time. ![]() Yiannis Chryssomallis ( Greek : Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης, born November 14, 1954), known professionally as Yanni ( listen / ˈ j ɑː n i/ ), is a Greek-American composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer. Word of the Day: YANNI ( 26D: One-named Greek New Age musician). ![]()
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