I pulled out 13A Menu at un café: CARTE because I only now realize that it’s carte like card. I always think about the dessert cart in restaurants back in the day.
Today’s theme was pretty EEEEEEEEEEEasy.
17A Clamoring for “The Bonfire of the Vanities“?: CRYINGWOLFE. It’s a novel by Tom Wolfe. 24A Selling someone on “The Importance of Being Earnest”?: WILDEPITCH.
A surprisingly easy Wednesday puzzle! Way easier than yesterday’s.
I selected 4A ____ Coeur, Mo.: CREVE (pronounced KREEV core) as the highlighted one because I had not heard of this city until this puzzle. And I started learning about it. You know, by watching YouTube videos. It started with trying to figure out how to pronounce the city’s name and turned into finding out flattering and unflattering things about it.
And then I found this charming bit of news coverage!
Once again I didn’t fully appreciate the theme of this puzzle until writing the blog post. Writing these has given me reason to review what I’ve done rather than moving on once I’ve gotten everything right.
As I was going through the puzzle, I realized very quickly that the circles would be filled with a letter that would be counted twice.
17A Betting game in which you could lose your shirt: STRI(P)OKER->STRIP POKER 24A Film cast and crew celebration: WRA(P)ARTY->WRAP PARTY 49A Tickets for shorter lines, good seats, backstage access, etc.: VI(P)ASSES->VIP PASSES 57A Some old mobile devices: FLI(P)HONES->FLIP PHONES 4D Signature feature of a Duracell battery: CO(P)ERTOP->COPPER TOP 9D “OK by me”: IMHA(P)Y->I’M HAPPY 35D Burger King offering: WHO(P)ERJR->WHOPPER JR. This was a surprisingly difficult answer for me to get. Had to solve like the entire lower left corner to get it. 54D First company to be valued at $1 trillion: A(P)LE->APPLE
34A Almost twins … as suggested by this puzzle’s circled squares?: TWOPEASINAPOD.
I got the answer for 34A well before solving most of the puzzle. At that point I just figured it was a doubled letter in the circle. It hadn’t dawned on me that it was the letter P twice. So two P’s in a pod.
When I completed the puzzle, the crossword filled in the second P. I was not so insightful to actually put that in on my own.
Completing this puzzle in 9:59 isn’t my 7:55 Wednesday PR, but it’s well below my 17:54 Wednesday average.
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