IDIOTIC is way, way, way more strongly negative a term than 'half-baked.' 'Half-baked' implies that maybe it makes sense at first blush, whereas IDIOTIC implies thoroughgoing implausibility and stupidity. And it crossed a very weird EDU clue ( 13D: Northwestern follower) (I wanted -ERS) and a very badly clued IDIOTIC (11D: Half-baked). I don't really know what an IODIDE is, so there's that. Who has ever called the drain in their sink a 'sink hole'? Pfft. I've got angry green circles around the whole PTRAPS / PAC / ASAMI area, largely because ASAMI is the worst and PTRAPS has a really tortured clue on it (tortured in an attempt at misdirection-the worst kind of torture) ( 58A: They're found beneath sink holes). Strike One? Ball Three? I dunno, the baseball metaphor falls apart at his point.įill-wise, there were rough spots for sure. Twice the Type Of Puzzle I Don't Really Care For! But at least the theme was not just a drop-a-letter now, so, points for complexity, and. Double your wackiness letter-drop / letter-add fun.

I thought they'd merely been dropped, but no, they just got 'stolen' by adjacent answers. But then I (finally) got to the second part of the theme-that is, the answers that actually 'stole' the 'U's. Anyway, this puzzle forced me to think about 'The Bachelor,' so Strike Two. It's weird to me that ' CAN I STEAL YOU FOR A SECOND?' is a catchphrase since it's just. Like, I know there is a 'Rose Ceremony' (I think), and that is all I know-except for all the relationship clichés and fake 'love' baloney. This is gonna be a long solve.' And then things got kinda worse when I got to the revealer, since I don't find anything interesting or even remotely charming about 'The Bachelor' (which members of my family have made me watch on various summer vacations), and don't give a damn about any of its rituals. looked at the title of the puzzle, and thought, 'That's it? We're just dropping 'U's? Oh, man.

Say i dunno say crossword clue