The next highlight is that central stack of MUSICAL CHAIRS, “ DON’T BE SO HASTY,” and GOLD MEDALISTS, all crossing MAKE A HASH OF and “ I REST MY CASE.” Just lovely. On the other hand, I’ve never heard the phrase “ MUST BE A DAY THAT ENDS IN Y.” The tough part for me was I was filling it in from the end and it was a challenge to parse _ENDSINY without knowing the phrase. I KNOW A GUY WHO KNOWS A GUY is a lot of fun and I wanted it to continue, as featured humorously in this Weird Al song. Let’s start off with the two grid-spanners. I don’t know that this one is quite as smooth as those, but it’s got plenty of fun entries. The bar is raised pretty high for these Sunday freestyle grids based on the previous two. Will Nediger’s Universal Sunday crossword, “Jumbo Freestyle 3”-Jim P’s review What did you enjoy about the puzzle? Can you think of other phrases that could have served as theme answers in this puzzle? Comment below! For a moment, I wondered if it was somehow a cat/buffalo hybrid. – 94D: CATTALO – Apparently, this is the same thing as a beefalo, a cross between cattle and buffalo. – 7A: DIVAS – I was genuinely stumped when MEN wasn’t the answer here and spent a few seconds trying to find a five-letter synonym. I also got super stuck in the DO LOOP, EOS, POMES section in the NW corner and had to reveal those answers. Your mileage may have varied, though, and I hope you were able to get a smoother glide into the grid than I was. When the top of the grid has clues like and as well as the full name of a golfer whose last major win was over twenty years ago, I know that I’m personally going to have some trouble. For whatever reason, this puzzle didn’t CLICK for me and it took me a long time to get a foothold. There were some dings against my solving experience. – 78A: TRIDENT – I was relieved to not have to know sports here! I also really enjoyed some of the cluing in the puzzle, including: The dual meaning of capital also made for nice interplay between the puzzle’s title, themers, and revealer(s). CAPITAL GAINS and KA-CHING were both fun revealers for me, and I also appreciated the geographic diversity of world capitals represented. This was a cute, consistent theme that had a few nice payouts. Those single letters (letters that those capitals had gained, thus CAPITAL GAINS) spell out KA-CHING, the sound of a CASH REGISTER (24A). To summarize, each theme entry contains the name of a world capital city and inside that capital (“In the Money”) is a single letter. KIGALI is shaded, with N circled amidst it – 71A: CHAIR OF THE FED ĬAIRO is shaded, with H circled amidst it ![]() QUITO is shaded, with C circled amidst it
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