The third and final exclamatory high point came after I puzzled over LAS- at 40D: Team game played in the dark I had to struggle to move forward because I didn't really know NOEL (I had NEIL there for a bit) ( 52A: Name derived from the Latin for "to be born"), and WOOLEN was a struggle as well (probably the toughest clue in the puzzle for me) ( 47D: Warm, in a way). sky-diving ( 14D: Something released while skydiving). When I dropped SEEMS LEGIT in there, as with RIDE-OR-DIE, I thought "this is the crossword change I want to see in the world!" I also love that ADRENALINE falls down the side of the grid and its clue is *about* falling, i.e. Saturday is the new Friday! (But Friday is also still Friday-never change, Friday!)īut turns out there was more ADRENALINE to be felt, right alongside ADRENALINE, in fact. It single-handedly raises the pure pleasure standard for Saturdays. But I've gotten off track here: the puzzle is overwhelmingly enjoyable. It's really hard to tell which phrase is more common because google searches show tons of hits for both, but that's usually because they've turned up longer phrases that merely start with with "I WANNA." Still, it's a little suspect that when I google " I WANNA LOOK," near the top of the hit list is some NYTXW answer-bot site. And " I WANNA LOOK" sounds realistic-ish, but a bit only -ish: I can hear "I WANNA SEE!" much much more readily in my head. I think I'm used to people just being more frank and calling them PORN SITES. Too busy enjoying the longer fill, which shines all over. But not today, as I literally exclaimed "Wow" or some variant of "Wow" at least three times, and I rarely had that squinting, skeptical "really?" feeling. The gruelingness can kinda undermine the zing a little-otherwise, I can't understand why Saturdays should be any duller than Fridays. I like Saturdays fine, but they can feel somewhat more plodding as the cluing deliberately tilts more difficult. It's so unusual to get this much sass and bounce from a Saturday. This is the kind of fun I'm looking and hoping for on Fridays.
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