NO SOAP is a SNERD-era expression, but I got it easily because I've been doing crosswords forever and it's a phrase I've come to expect from crosswords (and literally only crosswords) ( 105A: "Outta luck!"). I spelled CUTIE thusly, instead of the way the grid wanted (i.e. Needed most every cross to get COIL, largely because "spring" has so many different possible meanings ( 20A: Spring feature). I didn't know that NEWTS "scurried," but now I do, I guess ( 7D: Scurriers near streams). Nothing horrible, really, just absolutely average fill, as far as the eye can see (oh, except STLEOI, which is, in fact, horrible) (16D: Canonized fifth-century pope called "the Great"). But most of the grid is pretty much just paint, drying. Oh, and I liked the clue on SWEATERS (39D: Ugly ones sometimes come out in December). the far east, where BODY ODOR and SCIATICA are doing a little DOSIDO of sadness. I do like the ailments section of the grid, i.e. information that allows you to orient yourself somewhat. It's like when the pilot suddenly announces your ETA after you haven't been paying attention for a while-it's interesting information, perhaps slightly surprising (you were really into the third season of "Gilmore Girls" and lost track of time), but, you know, it didn't make you laugh or think or anything. Not in that aha rush kind of way that you're supposed to get the theme. Like a joke you have to explain to someone and then they "get" it but not really. Had to go back and see the cluing pattern. Word of the Day: ANAIS Mitchell ( 121A: _ Mitchell, creator of the Tony-winning musical "Hadestown") -Īs for the puzzle-Finished this one superfast and sincerely had no idea what the theme was, even after I was done. AGE IS JUST A NUMBER (115A: Old saw?) (i.e. COGITO ERGO SUM (94A: Self expression?) (i.e.HOW NOW BROWN COW? (87A: Stock phrase?) (i.e.TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY (66A: Just saying?) (i.e.I WANT TO BE ALONE (44A: Single quote?) (i.e.THE AYES HAVE IT (36A: Passing comment?) (i.e.a sentence about running on) (the expression is really "run along," not "run on," but no reason we can't give some leeway here) GO AHEAD WITHOUT ME (22A: Run-on sentence?) (i.e."double talk"), where the second word in the clue is a word meaning (vaguely) "expression" and the first word is a thing that the "expression" is about sorta like if the clue was and the answer was some expression *about* double-ness or two-ness, like IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO or TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE or THINK TWICE or, I don't know, something better than those: THEME: "Double Talk" - common expressions that are clued via plays on words (i.e.
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