![]() Having REEL but not ROD felt odd, but the bigger problem was SPINNER, which is not nearly as solidly iconic as the other fishing words (it's a kind of. a boringish theme like this needs a zazzy revealer, and FISH is about the least zazzy imaginable. There's a decent, albeit dated and time-worn, concept here, right? Last words are all part of X group. When that wouldn't fit, my brain (apparently forgetting the exact wording of the clue) just toggled to the next plausible answer that fit.īut let's leave my floundering aside for a moment and talk about the theme, which just doesn't work. I wrote in OUTTAKE REEL at 47A: Series of funny outtakes ( BLOOPER REEL). Then is it COLA or SODA at 40D: Fizzy, sugarless beverage ( DIET SODA)? And is it IONE or IONA at 65A: College in New Rochelle, N.Y? Worst wound was totally self-inflicted, though. Also wrote in ANGRY for 16A: Livid, which is total amateur hour of course it's IRATE, it's always IRATE. ![]() I think my futon in grad school was on a slatted frame of some kind. ![]() I had SLA- and thought "they don't mean SLAT, do they?" I just couldn't process it, largely because I haven't seen or slept on a SLATted bed in a long time. First, 1A: Part of a bed's base ( SLAT) made No sense to me. ![]()
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