I guess the snark is my anti-jealousy shield. No evidence of the grapefruit-size fur mat between your dog’s shoulder blades. Nary a picture of eating an entire can of Pringles over the sink or the ugly fat pants reserved for Sundays. I think I scroll more snarkily than IDLY when I study how wonderful everyone’s life is, read the embarrassing anniversary love letters to their spouses, see the incredible accomplishments, the beautiful houses, the clean and brushed dogs, the perfect just-thrown-together dinners. Follow me for more fun facts to know and share. Since mama, papa, dada are usually first and hence assigned to parents, NANA and NANNY (nonna) are next and assigned to secondary people. I’m of the opinion that NANA and NANNY are related in that they’re sounds that a baby babbles once it’s decided to give language a go. With a small change, you could do the same for RUMP - “Word that becomes its own synonym by putting a T at the front.” I think deep down, I thought POSIES were a specific kind of flower. Hey, YOLO, right? said no one ever in a Buddhist monastery. Talk about the semantics of those words doing double doodie. Everyone PARTIES DOWN until the party’s up.ĭespite my age, I can never look at the phrase “skid marks” without an internal snort. Speaking of being old, I guess I partied down back in the day. Adding reading glasses, MiraLAX, and new pill organizer to my grocery list. An added layer like today’s serves to milk this delicious part of my day further.ĪRLENE was a gimme, but I’m at that age where I catch myself parting the blinds and scowling at a truck I don’t recognize. I get my coffee placed just so, CNN in the background, go-to clipboard and pencil, remote to my left to mute all the *&%^ commercials. I savor my sacred morning puzzle time, a SERENE time that allows me to put off facing the drudgeries that are Life. Nice job, Christina and Jeff.įunny how we either like it or hate it when there’s a little explanatory note to read. Jeff Lin – I’m glad that the pieces’ shapes weren’t outlined in the little separate puzzle that just added to the enjoyment of figuring it all out. I thought it’d be pretty easy, but I ended up relying on the words themselves to suss out how they all fit in. I liked the exercise of considering the shapes and piecing them together. It was cool to examine the five shapes and figure out how they’d fit in the little jigsaw puzzle. I had the opposite reaction from our guest host and to surprise, surprise. I’m hurrying to post lest today’s feed become a hate-fest. Nevertheless, it's always helpful to have staples like TAEBO (59D: Exercise program since the 1990s), AERIES (113A: Homes for high fliers), ARIAS (100A: Songs that can be trilling?), and SNO (18D: _-Cat) to keep things flowing, AMIRITE (98D: "You agree?" (*nudge, nudge*)). I was also sure the classic palindrome ARAT (36D: "Was it _ I saw?" (classic palindrome)) was going to be that ACTUAL classic palindrome about "Ere I saw Elba" so when it wasn't I wound up having to spell it out by just counting the letters. I initially wasn't sure about OLD BETSY (54A: Rifle, in frontier lingo) being universal to all old timey rifles, but I'm willing to buy it. But there were def some speed traps in that method as well. The "instructions" themselves really didn't lend much to picking up the common phrases that the answers were but the fill was pretty easy to slowly pick those off with downs. So obviously, I did not like this puzzle, which is also not shocking as I have liked ZERO of the puzzles I've guest posted about. Finally, it treats the bottom puzzle as separate clues and answers that cannot be solved and are not actually words when solved down. To compound on this, the Across Lite version doesn't provide the outlined pieces in the bottom puzzle. Without the notepad, there was no other way to know that the entire bottom "jigsaw puzzle" isn't actually part of the puzzle and that the circled clues (as seen in my grid screenshot) are puzzle pieces that fit in it. Like Rex, I DESPISE the NOTEPAD which was required reading for this puzzle. In front of each clue we have added its number and position on the crossword puzzle for easier navigation.With all apologies to Malaika, but you are wrong and this puzzle is all the more proof of it. If you are done solving this clue take a look below to the other clues found on today's puzzle in case you may need help with any of them. This clue was last seen on NYTimes DecemPuzzle. LITTLE CHICKENS Times Crossword Clue Answer Two or more clue answers mean that the clue has appeared multiple times throughout the years. Both the main and the mini crosswords are published daily and published all the solutions of those puzzles for you. The NYTimes Crossword is a classic crossword puzzle.
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