![]() ![]() The theme is pretty straightforward: "Sub" merges with a common word to answer the clue. I got to 37A, saw "goes underwater," and put in submerges, I stopped there, read some of the perimeter clues and their crosses, and filled in the whole border. I guess I just had a different experience solving this than Rex. I don't know who's being quoted there, but yes, fun clue, and with crosswordese like ENO, a new clue is always welcome. ![]() Patrick: "I liked the clue for ENO" ( 25A: Composer of music "as ignorable as it is interesting"). and honestly I think the theme is neat" (though when pressed she agreed that the revealer didn't make much sense). Lena: "it's impressively open grid for a weds. I asked some of my friends to say nice things about this puzzle, since I appear to be incapable. And to have the obscure Frenchism sitting under ENBANC, that's a pont trop loin, mes amis. among lutists? Lutenists or whatever they're called? Louts? We are badly, perhaps fatally, stretching the meaning of the word "popular" here. They shouldn't be allowed anywhere near each other. Those words have nothing to do with each other. I'm sorry, I'm still stuck on the very existence of BOURRÉE in this puzzle. Had WAWA / LISA for ECHO / EMAC, and was happier. Had LEOTARD instead of UNITARD (11D: Acrobat's wear). RAPT ( 47D: Totally absorbed), so that was weird. 'Cause it's a disaster as is.Ĭouldn't pick a CITRON out of a line-up. Honestly, one of the grid doctors or Shortz himself had an Obligation to tear out that entire NE corner, from BOURRÉE up (at a minimum) and redo it. I don't understand this puzzle or what it thinks it's doing or what its idea of "entertainment" is. ENBANC over BOURRÉE pretty much says it all, but LSTS crossing ELIHU says a little more, and then EMAC (!) ESSENES STAGG ouch ouch ouch. And why are the answers on the margins, then? What does that have to do with " SUBMERGES"? Baffling. but that doesn't make sense either, so I guess Jesse's right? The idea of mentally supplying a prefix is being framed as a "merge"? Dreadful. what? Is that right? I thought maybe (Maybe) the idea was that the SUB edges MERGE into each other. My friend Jesse just suggested "You merge sub with the word in the grid, I guess." Uh. ![]() That is, I don't get the "merges" part of SUBMERGES. I don't think I even understand the theme. ![]()
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