The point is, this one felt deliberately dialed back (in time). There's a TSAR and Cousin ITT and two (?) different hesitation sounds ( UMM, ERS), the hairy pair of ESAU and OSO studying for their LSATs, there's "The APIAN TABU," which is a fantasy fantasy novel I just made up, and well, finally the H- I mean N- I mean A-TESTS take us out with a crosswordesey bang. Meanwhile, in a nearby booth, ALBEE and AHAB and BIL KEANE are soberly discussing the EEC (gonna give BIL a pass today since he appears in full-name form, though-that takes him out of the routine category) (uh oh, just noticed that BIL crosses BILL. IONE and ENLAI are hanging out together in a very small back booth there in the NW, both of them looking at her ACER laptop, for some reason. But that's just the tip of the repeater iceberg. These proper nouns will give long-time solvers a leg up today and, conversely, possibly make things a little slower going for people who've only been solving a few years. So many things that I have only (and often) seen in crosswords, things I wouldn't even know if crosswords didn't exist, like where OPORTO is and who Stephen Vincent BENÉT is. wasn't so much horrible as it was surprising (to me) in its old-fashionedness, its old-schoolness, its "play the OLDIES" vibe. But that particular pluralization is one of those "brain notices, heart doesn't care" moments you experience when your good will toward a puzzle is too strong to allow nits to undermine it. There's a bit of a cheat there at the end with the pluralization of TOES (yes, you do have multiple toes, but you also have multiple feet, and shoulders (probably) and those appear here in the singular). Like yesterday's, there's an elegant simplicity-it took a while for the gimmick to fully sink in, but somewhere around SHOULDER it did, and then even though I had it, I was still left curious what body parts were left to make fitting phrases with. It's not uncommon for me to not care for a theme but find much to love in the fill. In 2009, The Library of America selected his story "The King of the Cats" (1929) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales edited by Peter Straub. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories " The Devil and Daniel Webster " (1936) and " By the Waters of Babylon " (1937). Stephen Vincent Benét / b ɪ ˈ n eɪ/ (J– March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. Word of the Day: Stephen Vincent BENÉT ( 56D: Writer Stephen Vincent _). TOES THE LINE (62A: Conforms to expectations).BACK THE FIELD (49A: Bet on every competitor but one).SHOULDER THE BLAME (40A: Take responsibility for a misdeed).FACE THE MUSIC (26A: Confront unpleasant consequences).FOOT THE BILL (18A: Pay for something expensive). THEME: THE - familiar phrases that follow this pattern, with the body part serving as a verb:
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