Ohmygod I can't believe we're a month into 2018. What in heck happened to January? Anyways, it's Annabel Monday!
Constructor: ALAN ARBESFELD
Relative difficulty: EASY
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THEME: MOON PHASES—Theme answers started with phases of the moon.
Word of the Day: ELKS (38D: Civic-minded group) —
Anyways, I think I've gotten off track. The puzzle was okay! One of my fastest Mondays yet (which is to say a little over twelve minutes - I'm still no Rex), and I didn't really get stuck anywhere for once. I wasn't super impressed with the fill, but at least it didn't feel like I had to sacrifice a LAMB to an IDOL to figure anything out, although now I am kind of hungry for CEREAL and ORANGE juice, and breakfast doesn't open for another twelve hours. Oh well...
The theme was okay, and pretty timely - did anyone else see the blue super blood moon? I thought it was really pretty. I kind of just went outside and stared at it for awhile TBH. It was nice! Oh, and MOON was also a really good movie that came out in 2009.
Bullets:
Signed, Annabel Thompson, tired college student.
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Constructor: ALAN ARBESFELD
Relative difficulty: EASY
THEME: MOON PHASES—Theme answers started with phases of the moon.
Word of the Day: ELKS (38D: Civic-minded group) —
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE; also often known as the Elks Lodge or simply The Elks) is an American fraternal order founded in 1868 originally as a social club in New York City. Today headquartered at Elks National Veterans Memorial in Chicago, Illinois, it is one of the leading fraternal orders in the United States, claiming nearly one million members.[3]
(Wikipedia)
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Theme answers:- HALF (1D: 50%)
- NEW YEAR'S EVE (18A: Traditional night for partying)
- CRESCENT ROLL (29A: Curved Pillsbury item)
- QUARTERBACKS (47A: Ones calling the plays)
- FULL TIME JOB (61A: 40-hour-a-week work)
- MOON (60D: It has phases that are represented by the start of 18-, 29-, 47- and 61-Across...and by 1-Down)
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The theme was okay, and pretty timely - did anyone else see the blue super blood moon? I thought it was really pretty. I kind of just went outside and stared at it for awhile TBH. It was nice! Oh, and MOON was also a really good movie that came out in 2009.
Bullets:
- YANK (37A: Pull hard)— Just wanted to say that as a Bostonian it really should not have taken me this long to get this one.
- WERE (34A: "The way we...")— As in WEREwolf? Or as in THEREwolf?
- OREO (59D: Nabisco snack since 1912)— OHMYGOD THIS IS THE MILLIONTH TIME I'VE HAD THIS AS AN ANSWER. Which wouldn't be a problem but every time I get it I want to start how-to-eat-Oreos discourse again. Lately I've just been dipping 'em in milk and letting them get soggy...
- CLAM (29D: Tight-lipped sort)— "Mmm, steamed clams."
Signed, Annabel Thompson, tired college student.
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