#REPERTOIRE CROSSWORD CLUE PLUS#

The clue for ' A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET' is eerily on the nose plus the phrase 'the teens' is just inherently funny to me. Even if I decide I am a lover of this type of humor, and the concept is the greatest thing I've ever heard of, still I don't know how any of these produce more than a polite, slightly forced smile-except for that last one.

#REPERTOIRE CROSSWORD CLUE MOVIE#

Just get a few crosses, and the very famous movie titles just slid right in. And today, I didn't even need to really read the clues very well. I always assume that the 'jokes' are lifted (borrowed, if you like) from somewhere else, and anyway, all you end up with, whether the anagrams are original or not, is a few movie titles in your grid. I'm never going to feel much admiration or affection for a theme that can basically be lifted from a sporcle quiz (find at least two of today's anagrams here, for instance). I just don't get the appeal of this one at all. Andrea has crafted many delightful Monday-level themes over the years. It really is stunning how unready for prime time this is. That kind of duplication is less than ideal. What else? Oh, CHI is an answer ( 32D: Ho _ Minh City) even though CHI is one of the crucial repeating theme elements (see CHINCHILLA). A six-hit game might be 'well pitched' too (better pitched than some TWO-HIT games), but you're not gonna see SIX-HIT in the grid (I hope). AWS as a plural is AWkward ( 51D: 'How cute!' sounds), as is TWO-HIT, which isn't really that noteworthy a thing (a 'two-hitter,' that is) ( 48D: Like some well-pitched games). Lots and lots and lots of good (not actually good) old repeaters: ALAI and ARLENE Francis ('of old TV') and ACTI OLE ACELA ELENA etc. But mostly the problem was the crosswordesiness. ECHOS was the biggest wince of the day (product placement + awful brand-name alt-plural spelling) ( 54D: Amazon speakers introduced in 2014). The fill in this puzzle is also pretty miserable. I did enjoy reacquainting myself with Jeannette RANKIN, but the pleasure pretty much started and ended there. Also, she didn't 'get' the theme either-this is telling. I don't normally read the other blogs, but since my friend Rachel writes for NYT's own 'Wordplay' blog on Monday, I thought I'd jump over there and at least make sure I wasn't missing anything. what is this? I pity the Monday-level puzzles that were rejected to make room for this one. unusual? Strange? It seems so ordinary, so banal, that I can't imagine anyone's ever thinking it would amount to theme material, and I really Really can't imagine an editor's thinking 'yes! I get a hundred submissions a week but this! This is the one.' What in the world is happening? Maybe, maybe if there had been a revealer, some snappy concept, something that would make the repeated letter strings make any kind of sense, then the concept would've been tolerable-good revealers often turn seemingly unremarkable answers into a really tight and interesting set. In each case, there are just three random letters. the repeated three-letter strings don't make words, or sounds, or.

#REPERTOIRE CROSSWORD CLUE FULL#

If the full extent of the theme is simply 'the first three letters of each answer repeat themselves within the answer,' then I haven't seen a theme so startlingly unworthy of publication in a long, long time. I simply have no idea what the theme is supposed to be. It's not uncommon for me to find the Monday puzzle a little dull, or a little corny, but it is nearly unheard of for me to find it completely thematically inscrutable. She championed a multitude of diverse women's rights and civil rights causes throughout a career that spanned more than six decades. While in Congress, she introduced legislation that eventually became the 19th Constitutional Amendment, granting unrestricted voting rights to women nationwide. In 1941, she was the only member of Congress to vote against the declaration of war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.Ī suffragist during the Progressive Era, Rankin organized and lobbied for legislation enfranchising women in several states including Montana, New York, and North Dakota.

A lifelong pacifist, she was one of 50 House members who opposed the declaration of war on Germany in 1917. military intervention in the two World Wars. As of 2022, Rankin is still the only woman ever elected to Congress from Montana.Įach of Rankin's Congressional terms coincided with initiation of U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. Jeannette Pickering Rankin (J– May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States.

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