Constructor:Alan Arbesfeld
Relative difficulty:Medium (despite palindromic giveaways)
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THEME:"palindromically"— [stares at puzzle in a disbelief he didn't know he could still experience]
Theme answers:
"MA HANDED EDNA HAM! (15) Hahahahahaha let's keep going!"—Bizarro Me playing this ridiculous game.
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All these palindromes are on the internet. Finding 15-letter palindromes is child's play. Lazy, boring child's play. How is this a Thursday puzzle from "The Best Puzzle in the World"? Seriously, how? In 2016, how? How desperate is the NYT for Thursdays (or any days)? If your faith in the future strength of the NYT crossword isn't ERODENT at this point, I don't know what to tell you. The Brain Drain is real.
All the crosswordese. All the crosswordese names. And then also UNRUH . . . . [cough] . . . [tumbleweed] . . . [a wolf howls] ...
I'm out.
Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld
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Relative difficulty:Medium (despite palindromic giveaways)
Theme answers:
- EMUS SAIL I ASSUME (17A: "Supposedly, some Australian birds can participate in the America's Cup," palindromically)
- A TSAR, A NUN, A RASTA (27A: "Peter the Great, Mother Teresa and Bob Marley,
palindromically) - TOO BAD I HID A BOOT (47A: "My concealment of that footwear was so unfortunate,"
palindromically) - NO WAY A PAPAYA WON (61A: That tropical entry could not have captured first place in the fruit competition, palindromically) (I ASSUME this clue also should've had quotation marks around it, but that's not how it appears in my puzzle file, so that's not how I'm displaying it here)
Jesse Marvin Unruh (September 30, 1922 – August 4, 1987), also known as Big Daddy Unruh, was a well-known AmericanDemocratic politician and the California State Treasurer. // An early endorser of the 1968 Presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, Unruh helped Kennedy win the California primary election during June, but an assassin's bullet that same night ended Kennedy's life. In the confusion that followed, Unruh helped keep suspect Sirhan Sirhan from the reach of angry Kennedy devotees. After an unsuccessful effort, managed by Unruh and Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, to draft Senator Edward M. Kennedy, he finally endorsed Eugene McCarthy at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (wikipedia)
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"MA HANDED EDNA HAM! (15) Hahahahahaha let's keep going!"—Bizarro Me playing this ridiculous game.
All these palindromes are on the internet. Finding 15-letter palindromes is child's play. Lazy, boring child's play. How is this a Thursday puzzle from "The Best Puzzle in the World"? Seriously, how? In 2016, how? How desperate is the NYT for Thursdays (or any days)? If your faith in the future strength of the NYT crossword isn't ERODENT at this point, I don't know what to tell you. The Brain Drain is real.
All the crosswordese. All the crosswordese names. And then also UNRUH . . . . [cough] . . . [tumbleweed] . . . [a wolf howls] ...
I'm out.
Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld
[Follow Rex Parker on Twitter and Facebook]