That is just under last year's Hurricane Harvey's 68 attributed direct fatalities (though less if one counts its 39 indirect fatalities). It was a Category 4, end-of-season hurricane, and the most powerful of that year, causing severe damage along the northern Gulf Coast and causing 63 fatalities. Regarding Hurricane OPAL, we all should probably keep that one in our collective memories. I slotted in SNOOZE BUTTON without any crosses, so that reveal did help me out a bit with 19A and 40A. I agree pretty much with take on the rest of the puzzle. (What a match!) Expectations for tonight are that England will beat Croatia.Īlso struggled a bit with TRICIA I always thought it was spelled 'TRIsh. I guess that was a residual effect of France beating Belgium last night. Quicker than usual time for me, for a Wednesday, but almost 10 Rexes! Didn't get the happy pencil jingle at first, because I had "lEs Majesty" instead of HER Majesty. Enjoyable, despite the handful of answers / clues that I've spent the last paragraph griping about. (It was undoubtedly memorable to others.) Nothing else in the grid presented much of a problem. maybe IRENE? But OPAL was, contrary to the clue's assertion, not "Memorable" to me. I have no idea why anyone would go to merry-go-rounds for their UNICORN clue. And what the heck kind of merry-go-round has a UNICORN on it? And isn't the merry-go-round itself the "ride." Weird to call an individual animal a "ride." I know, you ride it, blah blah blah. is in fairly common usage, but I don't have to like it, and I don't. I continue to not like BUSHSR as an answer. Ergo, NEW TAKE doesn't really stand alone, ergo "on a familiar idea" is unnecessary because NEW TAKE is really parallel only to "Fresh spin." QED, LMNOP, UFO, TTYL. Those are the videos right under the first google hit. I know I am overthinking this what else have I got to do?! It's just. In fact, when I google, the first thing that comes up is the phrase "new take on something" from WordReference Forums. It's just that I don't think NEW TAKE does stand alone very well. Maybe NEW TAKE can stand alone, whereas "Fresh spin" probably needs the prepositional phrase that follows. Also, because the clue,, really should've stopped after. Had trouble with NEW TAKE at first, because I know HOT TAKE so much better. Clean fill, interesting fill, very acceptable theme.
Better to have a thin theme that works than to choke a grid with theme material and cause the rest of the grid to suffer. And so the thinness of the theme didn't matter to me.
the rest of the grid is particularly strong. That TATAS EKED DESI block is about the only real weak spot. GHOSTED, HOT YOGA, and WORD LENGTH (as clued) were my favorites, but it's all pretty solid. The puzzle is very, very light on theme material, which may be another reason it feels like a themeless-the grid has room for more interesting fill than you normally find in MTW theme puzzles. It's just a themeless puzzle, and then later on you realize, oh yeah, I guess those three answers do kind of do what the latter part of the revealer clue says. The rest of the puzzle was straightforward enough that I didn't need to think about how the revealer worked. I worked my way down to SNOOZE BUTTON, saw that it was a revealer, but didn't really bother to try to figure out the gag. This was a pretty decent themeless puzzle. The descendants of these Aboriginal Tasmanians often refer to themselves as ' Palawa '. Prior to British settlement, the Hobart area had been occupied for possibly as long as 35,000 years, by the semi-nomadic Mouheneener tribe, a sub-group of the Nuennone, or South-East tribe. Founded in 1804 as a British penal colony, Hobart, formerly known as Hobart Town or Hobarton, is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney, New South Wales. With a population of approximately 225,000 (over 40% of Tasmania's population), it is the least populated Australian state capital city. Hobart ( / ˈ h oʊ b ɑːr t/ ( listen) ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Word of the Day: HOBART ( 44D: Capital of Tasmania).
resulting in 19-, 31- and 40-Across?) - familiar phrases that, when taken with a different meaning, suggest what happens when you hit the SNOOZE BUTTON: THEME: SNOOZE BUTTON (49A: What a late sleeper may use.
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