I also liked SMURFY, but is that really the definition of that word? As I recall from the show, they’d use that word to replace many different adjectives.Ĭlue of note: 63a. This time I remembered that third vowel in ANGELENO is an E and not an I. In the fill, we have STATE LINE, GAVE IT A GO, ALL-IN-ONE, MARVELED, UNWASHED, and ANGELENO to sink our teeth into. (Was he really a “master” in that movie?) The theme probably couldn’t be done without MASTER PO, so that was a nice find, but I bet most of us needed the crossings for that one. I like the lively theme answers and the long U sound in the final entry. MASTER PO.Īs vowel progressions go, this is very nice. I only just realized the title is a pun on “peace process.” But the theme is a vowel progression with words starting with P occurring at the end of well-known phrases. Kevin Christian’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “P’s Process”-Jim P’s review So imagine my surprise when AREA turned up as the answer at 24d ! I was certain that the first instance of at 12d was “area” so it took me a while to see ZONE.Certainly loved it a lot more than the word NHLER itself… Loved the subtle West Side Story reference in the clue for NHLER.Speaking of fill! This puzzle is chock-full of great down answers – S PIT TAKES, STARGAZE, LADYBIRD, CUPHOLDER.I guess CLIO is esoteric, but the crosses are fair. Other than that, though, a very clean puzzle fill-wise.
Each answer takes a common idiom and reparses it to be about a relevant location. This is a hard theme to sum up in a single sentence.
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