Like I said yesterday, the streak is alive. And now it’s up to three full weeks. Which is bananas.
I pulled out 21A Homemade headgear for pretend pirates: PAPERHATS because I didn’t think about paper hats in a long time, but as the wedding draws nearer, I feel like pretending to be pirates will be part of my life in the foreseeable future.
This isn’t even pandering to a specific dedicated reader of this blog.
The title of this puzzle is Gravity’s Rainbow, and the theme had to do with rainbows. Falling.
95A Mars and 96D ___ River, part of the Texas/Oklahoma border: THE(RED)PLANET.
56A Fruit with crimson-colored flesh and 58D Southern California county: BLOOD(ORANGE).
39A 1966 Donovan hit and 42D Chicken: MELLOW(YELLOW).
6A Spruce or fir and 10D Fresh, in a sense: EVER(GREEN)TREE.
43A Sinatra, to fans and 45D Racy: OL(BLUE)EYES.
60A Popular folk rock duo and “Mood _” (Duke Ellington classic): (INDIGO)GIRLS.
100A Harmful bits of sunlight and State flower of Illinois or New Jersey: ULTRA(VIOLET)RAYS.
Finished this one in 51:05
| Day | This Wk | Best | Average |
| Monday | 6:44 | 3:49 | 9:30 |
| Tuesday | 10:17 | 5:52 | 13:43 |
| Wednesday | 10:28 | 7:38 | 17:38 |
| Thursday | 50:09 | 13:09 | 30:17 |
| Friday | 28:11 | 16:23 | 35:58 |
| Saturday | 46:38 | 27:43 | 37:21 |
| Sunday | 51:05 | 15:11 | 1:00:17 |