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Constructor: Margaret Seikel
Relative issue: Easy-Medium (***for a Monday***)
THEME: HANG IN THERE (58A: “Stick with it!” … or a touch to the solutions to the starred clues) — locations about which you would possibly say, “yeah, you’ll be able to (actually) cling in there”:
Theme solutions:
- CLIMBING GYM (17A: *Indoor bouldering locale)
- COAT CLOSET (11D: *Room by the lobby, typically)
- ART GALLERY (27D: *Place to purchase a portray)
- MAN CAVE (37A: *Male equal of a she-shed)
Word of the Day: RAGLAN (40A: Kind of sleeve that extends to the collar) —
A raglan sleeve is a sleeve that extends in a single piece absolutely to the collar, leaving a diagonal seam from underarm to collarbone.
It is called after Lord Raglan, the 1st Baron Raglan, who is claimed to have worn a coat with this model of sleeve after the lack of his arm within the Battle of Waterloo.
The raglan mid-length sleeve is a well-liked undergarment (worn below the jersey) for baseball groups in MLB. (wikipedia)
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Is a closet a “room”???? How huge are y’all’s closets, anyway? Never in my life would’ve thought to name a closet a “room,” however I assume it is received 4 partitions and a door, so perhaps you’ll be able to lawyer your approach right into a justification. Anyway, “room” definitions apart, I believed this was a remarkably intelligent theme. Take a well-recognized phrase, do some wordplay, shazam! If you’ll be able to pull it off, it is golden. Gotta get a themer set that works *and* that matches symmetrically, however for those who can tick all these packing containers, you are good to go. You’re not finished although. You nonetheless gotta construct a grid that you would be able to fill cleanly, after which, , fill it cleanly. And this one’s as clear as a whistle. That’s two distinctive Monday puzzles in a row. Good stuff. True, I are likely to blow by the Monday too rapidly to note regardless of the heck is happening with the theme, and that was true as we speak as properly, however that does not imply I am unable to respect the gimmick as soon as I’m finished and correctly paying consideration. I’ve by no means heard of a CLIMBING GYM. Really actually wished CLIMBING WALL, which I’ve undoubtedly heard of. But apparently they’ve entire “gyms” crammed with issues to “climb,” who knew? Well, in addition to a bunch of you, I imply. The COAT a part of COAT CLOSET feels arbitrary, however you gotta make your solutions symmetrical someway, and if COAT works, it really works. HALL CLOSET looks like extra of a factor to me, however perhaps the thought is {that a} COAT CLOSET actually brings dwelling the thought of “hanging.” Whereas who is aware of what you have received in your HALL CLOSET!? Shoes, board video games, yoga mats, bowling balls … you’ll be able to’t cling these!
MAN CAVE stays a type of gendered issues that makes my pores and skin crawl slightly. Like, what does your little playroom need to do together with your manhood, precisely? And she-shed is someway worse? Like, did you really want an equal idea? Women ought to have caves and males ought to have sheds and other people ought to have their very own rooms if they need, no matter, gendering rooms is weird. Not certain I’d’ve gone with INS when “IN” is already “IN” the revealer, however two-letter prepositions are fairly innocuous, as dupes go. It was simply BISCUIT Week on “The Great British Bake-Off,” so the British phrase for “cookie” was contemporary on my thoughts. I used to be simply watching “The Rockford Files” earlier than I got here upstairs to unravel, in order that’s in all probability how I’d’ve clued (James) GARNER if I’d been given the prospect. There’s not a lot room for stand-out non-theme fill as we speak, however as I say, the grid is so clean it hardly issues, and anyway BOLSTER and DEMOTAPE and DOGSAT are loads good. No actual sticking factors as we speak in addition to the theme reply stuff I already talked about. Oh, “PINCH ME!,” forgot to say that reply—additionally one. I’d say a PEAR is very-much-not spherical, in order that clue was bizarre (56D: Not-quite-round fruit), however I nonetheless received the reply simple sufficient. OK, PEACE out, see you tomorrow.
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