I guess Facebook kind of laid permanent public claim to that particular origin story. I didn't know that DELL was started in a dorm room ( 41D: Texas computer giant started in a dorm room). 63A: Where stranded canoeists get together? ( UP THE CREEK).49A: Where elderly picnickers get together? ( OVER THE HILL).28A: Where future motorists get together? ( DOWN THE ROAD) - what the hell is a "future motorist?".17A: Where sad trash collectors get together? ( IN THE DUMPS).Why not spiff up your ordinary fill with a jazzy clue every now and again? Also, the clue on GEL ( 53A: Hair spiffer-upper). Aside from ugliness, another reason to boot THÉ is that it's clue contains "tea," which appears in the grid as part of TEA BALL ( 54A: Holey brewing gadget). I'm a big fan of SIN TAXES ( 2D: Extra costs of smoking and drinking) (that is, I'm a fan of the answer, not the taxes), and YOGI BEAR ( 39D: Boo Boo's buddy in Jellystone Park).Ī very minor sidenote-I'd've gone OSU (or even ASU) and DIES rather than EDU and DIED just so that I could avoid the horrid THE (pretending it's French THÉ) crossing THE in the theme answer. Fill seems average, though the big corners give us some shinier, more interesting stuff than an early-week puzzle typically brings with it. The result was that the concept felt clunky and then uncovering of the answers brought no joy at all. The "?" clues have one element that refers to the idiomatic meaning of the phrase, then another that attempts to literalize the phrase. Even now I have a hard time getting my head around the catch. The other slight slowing factor, for me, was that the theme just didn't resonate. There's no law that says I should be able to do every Monday in under three minutes. This is not, of course, a knock on the puzzle. From a speed-solving perspective, the grid wasn't built for velocity-not on the margins, anyway.
Had to hack together crosses in a slightly more methodical way than I'm accustomed to on Mondays. Long Downs + the long theme answer in the NW made it hard to shoot right out of that corner. I found it actually somewhat slower than a typical Monday, for a couple reasons. Huge corners, heavily segmented and choppy middle. Structure of this grid was odd, especially for a Monday.
Having earned the nickname “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry. Spacely, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff, Speedy Gonzales, Tom and Jerry, and hundreds of others. Coyote, Woody Woodpecker, Barney Rubble, Mr. during the " Golden Age of American animation" (and later for Hanna-Barbera television productions) as the voice of such well-known characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Taz, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (– July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Word of the Day: Mel BLANC ( 47D: Mel with "1,000 voices"). wackily ("?"-style) as a location where a given group of people might "get together" H.S.THEME: Meeting places - idioms (with " THE " structure) are clued literally, i.e.Battle waged on Wikipedia crossword clue.Wall Street Journal Crossword OctoAnswers.
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