I had to look it up just now to make sure it was still a country). Blanked on SOFIA as a place (I can't remember the last time I heard Bulgaria referred to. (from the rapper whose name was the basis of the late Supreme Court justice's own moniker). NW) clues-, , -that last once may have been obvious to you, but my first thought for is always going to be B.I.G. The solve itself started hard, as solves often do, with lots of misdirection in the initial (i.e. My cats lap water everyday, and of all the things I call them (and I call them more things than I could begin to list for you) I have never not once called either of them a LAPPER. I also say that LAPPER is comically terrible as an answer, and gets a pass solely because it's doing real thematic work. And it obviously doesn't matter because the gimmick works as is so who cares? Well, tell that to my brain, is what I say. As I type this, I realize that this isn't a complaint at all, just a weird thing my brain is doing, calculating that most people, presented with the sentence "In a wedding ceremony, you exchange _" would fill in the blank with VOWS. there's something odd about an "exchange" phrase not even being the most important "exchange" phrase in its specific wedding context. Rings are definitely exchanged, so there's nothing wrong here. First, where weddings are concerned, I think of "exchanging" as something done first and foremost with VOWS. That's an extra layer, for sure." I don't love how detached the theme is from the solving experience, but I do appreciate that the reveal is an actual reveal and not some totally sad let-down. we have to move the black square!? Why didn't you say so? OK. "Well, that kind of looks / sounds like 'hitching post' but. I mentally exchanged the rings in each row and just squinted confusedly until I got to HITCHIN GPOST. It's a bit of a double trick because nowhere does the revealer indicate that you'd have to mentally move the black square in order to make sense of the row, post-exchange. I'm underselling a bit how impressed I am by the trick, though. But I came here primarily for the solving experience, not the after show. It's like you made a puzzle so you could do a little wordplay magic trick. So there's a nice surprise waiting at the end of this one (or whenever you decide to look back and see how the revealer works) but the theme is disconnected from the solving process in a way that I always find mildly dissatisfying. Well, that is, unless you actually stopped after getting the revealer and tried to figure out what was happening mid-solve-but even then, I can't see how knowing the gimmick would have any effect at all on the remainder of the solve. The puzzle's real reason for being only becomes apparent post-solve. It's not a bad grid, but it's mostly just something to get through. and Sat.-the ones with grids that are genuinely sparkly precisely because they are Not encumbered by a theme). But as a themeless, this is just OK (I mean, compared to real themelesses of the kind you see on Fri. It's just got the little trick at the end. From a pure solving perspective, this is an easyish themeless puzzle. But still, it had nothing at all to do with the solve. only told us what we already knew), today's revealer does absolutely everything.
If the MUSTACHE puzzle earlier in the week gave us a revealer that essentially did nothing (i.e. The circles don't explain the theme-the theme explains the circles. HATSPING? PHASTING? STAPHING? PHANGIST? Nope. They have absolutely nothing, zero, nada to do with actually solving the puzzle. What dumb message are these going to spell out?" But then I dove in and promptly ignored the circles.
My first thought on looking at this grid, with its array of completely disconnected circles was "Uh oh. We are sharing here every day’s answers and solutions for Puzzle Page Daily Crossword, Diamond, Challenger, Picture Cross, Link Words, Word Slide, Quote Slide, Word Snake, Cross Sum, Cross Out.Well this is definitely a better-than-average use of circles in a puzzle, I'll say that. If you need answers for Puzzle Page Game you can find them at our website.
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