Themeless Saturday by Zhouqin C. Her wit and wisdom are everywhere. I was glad to see C. And while this puzzle certainly was a challenge, there were only a few clues that really had me scratching my head. But, in the long run, I persevered and got the win. Good morning! Got 'er done Thanx for playing. Nice one, C. I tried to brush away the acute accent above the O in reunion thinking it was a dust mote, but it got me TIAS.
The math to figure out an ARC is well beyond my capabilities. Yet another close, but no cigar. For the most part this very enjoyable puzzle came together nicely. I thought I was going to FIR in record time.
Then I hit a brick wall in the SE corner and had to resort to red letters to fill the few remaining empty squares. All in all, a fun way to start the weekend. Took today. I had snow peas before snap peas, too. Although I know "Alda," I don't know him "as clued," as we like to say. Podcaster, nowadays, doesn't really narrow anything down much at all. August 24, - a date that will live in infamy - a Saturday crossword was correctly filled by the lowly Jinx. Guess that proves the "a monkey hitting keys at random on a keyboard for an infinite amount of time will type War and Peace " theory.
Sorry, Monkey. There were a bunch of proper and foreign words that I didn't know. Thanks to CC for letting me play today. And thanks to H. Gary for the fine review. They are more fun when I've actually worked the puzzle. First, congratulations C. I FIW after taking a few wrong guesses on the foods I had zero knowledge of. WAC didn't make sense because it was wrong. I've never used Twitter-X, and I thought maybe there was some type of tweet. I had the wrong type of dish.
The rest filled in Saturday time-slowly. Who is Brenda Song? Who is Shawkat? Podcasts I watch? Ditto for the 'ships passing in the night' for NSA. Well, C. Gary- sounds like a money shakedown for your PAC. It's all about the Benjamins. FIR, but somewhat of a struggle which is to be expected on a Saturday. But compared to previous weeks a tad easier than most. I had to take a WAG at the crossing of tile and raita, and corn in a cup looked so wrong, but I went with it and got 'er done.
