Really needed to get that revealer in there in the southeast! Or maybe he’s more well-known nowadays than I think? Maybe he’s all over the Game Show Network in reruns or something. Not far off is another uncommon word: 63d CENTUPLE. But no, font as in accessory for this rite. I was thinking of memes and how they often use the Impact, which is a very heavy font. (track 4 (time= 15:20) is ‘Cascavel’, a cognate) Not technically a duplication, but still a bit odd feeling. And cadet has a much longer etymology, going back to Latin.

Cad is from the Scottish caddie (“one who waits around for odd jobs”), which in turn is from the French cadet. There’s a revealer as well: 112a DOWN AT THE HEELS. The intersecting across answers incorporate the downs and then continue where they diverged. I’ve circled them for convenience here, but they had to be discovered during the solve. In today’s offering there are a half dozen down entries that share the same clue– Paul Coulter’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Raggedy Men” - pannonica’s write-up It’s not at all my sort of thing, so my petty side laughs that the people who stand by the river to start their day of drunkenness will be freezing their faces off. Saturday morning, the city of Chicago will dye the river green.

Definitely better today! And ready for the weekend. (Let’s disregard the police PATROLS on a block in the next clue.0

Tonight my fortune cookie offered this wisdom: “Try to live life one block at a time.” Truer words, etc. I really know this only from crossword clues for GESTE. Til (or today I learned) what PARI-PASSU means! No, I didn’t study Latin. Except … not so much? On the easier end of Saturday puzzles, I thought.įave fill: PARAGUAY (appreciated learning that Guaraní is one of its official languages–remember that Latin America has so many people whose first language is neither Spanish nor Portuguese), “ BORN TO RUN,” FLUNKIES, Briticism PRAT, JEEPERS CREEPERS, ISAAC STERN, HANK AARON, and GOT NOWHERE. What have we here? A 64-worder whose NW and SE corners are kinda cut off, and the constructor is Natan Last so it’s gonna be hard. NY Times crossword solution, 3 12 22, no.

Speed reader of a sort wsj crossword