![]() ![]() I have spent many weeks in the Sierra, singular please, and honestly, John MUIR is kind of a gasbag. We get evil DOER as fill on this anniversary? I get it: year = a**hole, but come on! Where's the apostrophe in this whole conversation? Discuss. And another thing, lots of hand wringing and grousing on this blog about the missing tilde. In college, for some odd reason I took French and what with Lab and all, it pretty much killed my GPA. My resident Francophone has yet to solve this, but she likes to spell when asked and I asked and she pretty much nailed HORS D'OEUVRES on demand. Actually salmon in an orange marinade, but, anyway. Quelle coincidence! Tonight, I cooked duck l'orange and then slid into a French menu themed puzzle. from the sea? Or from Prussia, one or the other. Oh, and RECLAIMED was hard for me to see. I also couldn't spell FEUILLE because I thought it had to be plural. Other big trouble spot was down south, where I couldn't get either LATHS or LOW-CUT to fall, and so the SW was something I had to jump into with no help from crosses. I had to leave the corner and then back into it with HORS D'OEUVRES before I could even begin to extricate myself. It's a bad answer because 3rd person present singular verb doesn't work with the clue, but that didn't keep it from feeling right for a few seconds. ![]() ![]() But not as brutal as what I was about to do next, namely compound the one long error with Another Long Error: faced with H-O- at 3D: Want really bad, I decided to try out HAS TO HAVE. Anyhoo, I had Lao-TSO (ouch x 2) and then dropped in AKIN TO at 1A: Just like. I think it's trying to say that ASHE- is a "lead-in to 'ville'" in North Carolina (also), but that is not, grammatically, what is happening in the clue (unless "North Carolina" is being used adjectivally to modify "lead-in," which would be bonkers). Got ENDO and then eventually guessed ASHE (though that is a bad clue. I could not have opened worse, in the NW. This felt harder than usual, partly because of tricky French spelling, and partly because the parallel longer Downs in the NW and SE made those corners potentially weird. ![]()
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