27A: Halloween costume options if all you have is a little bit of leopard-print fabric? (M) BAMM BAMM OR MILEY BABA O’RILEY.19A: Things that make your back hurt? (S) SPINE STRESSES PINE TREE.This week’s AVCX Classic from Francis Heaney was a very demanding 4.5/5 difficulty. Gareth Francis Heaney,’s AVCX, “Gimme Five” - Rebecca’s Review Her main series is apparently “Anna Pigeon”, which could show up in an ANNA clue near you! I knew, CHE who is most often seen alongside Colin JOST, but think has shown up surprisingly sparingly. Not a lot of entries to note for better or worse. Not sure how I absorbed the names of the sisters, this apparently the matriarch. I’m quite impressed that all three MEEM answers feel both interesting and natural: I think this other song is more my speed: Ed Sessa’s puzzle features, MEANDMYSHADOW which is an interesting way to get to a theme which is 3 entries with MEEM (“em” being the mirror of ME) in their centres. Apparently it’s a “seasonal podcast” now and no longer a public radio program, but it was on the airwaves until just a few months ago.Įrik Agard’s New Yorker crossword-Amy’s recapĭr. Not so keen on the ARE NOT/ARE SO overlap, with or without the linked clues, along with and LIC., plural OLAS, and TOLD NO. , A LITTLE LAMBO, Lambo being shorthand for a Lamborghini among car fanciers.įave fill: FAIL UP, BAILS ON, FLOJO, Ukraine’s essential MOLOTOV cocktail. 1005įamiliar phrases ending with MB pick up an extra O, changing the meaning: NY Times crossword solution, 10 5 22, no. Jason Reich’s New York Times crossword-Amy’s recap I thought this was a reference to the yeti, but no. Knowing nothing about this and with the B in place, I went with BOARDS. Never mind that I took some Latin in high school. Couldn’t be sure at first, but these are Latin words. Who else went with FCC since we’re talking telephone calls here? But I guess FTC makes more sense. LONDONER and ON REPORT are good as well, though I tried ON RECORD first for the latter. I enjoyed the long fill, especially FRESH START and CATCHING UP which seem to go well together. I did wish that instead of CO in each case, we had different actual companies, like IBM, BMW, IKEA, etc. Never heard of a china aster, so I needed a lot of crossings here. I guess they’d dealt with enough spouses who’d keeled over in the past. I was even willing to stand up and witness the proceedings (a C-section), but they warned me not to. Hey, I was at her head and holding her hand.
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