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Constructor: Karen Steinberg

Relative problem: Easy? (6:30)

THEME: Words that imply various things in several languages

Theme solutions:

  • Vintage automotive, in German … or veteran, in English– OLD TIMER
  • High college, in Danish … or constructing for indoor sports activities, in English– GYMNASIUM
  • Competition, in French … or settlement, in English– CONCURRENCE
  • Plywood, in Dutch … or theater with a number of screens, in English– MULTIPLEX
  • Vacation, in Swedish … or half of an educational yr, in English– SEMESTER

Word of the Day: MRES (G.I. meals packs) —

Some of the early MRE most important programs weren’t very palatable, incomes them the nicknames “Meals Rejected by Everyone,” “Meals Rejected by Ethiopia” (through the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia), or “Meals Rarely Edible.” Some particular person parts had their very own nicknames. For instance, the frankfurters, which got here sealed in pouches of 4, have been known as “the 4 fingers of loss of life.” Although high quality has improved through the years, most of the nicknames have caught. MREs have been typically referred to as “Three Lies for the Price of One … it isn’t a Meal, it isn’t Ready, and you may’t Eat it.”

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Good morning, squad! Today’s one other Malaika MWednesday, and I’m peering out of a thick World Cup Haze in an effort to write this submit. I hardly know what day it’s or what time it’s. I’m nonetheless recovering from the Japan PKs and the Morocco PKs. I’m contemplating tattooing Mbappe’s face onto my forearm. Today is the primary day in seventeen days that there shall be no video games for me to look at and I’m already going by way of withdrawal. I have not even written a paragraph but and I’m already switching to a different tab to look at the Richarlison aim for the one hundredth time.

Anyway, let’s discuss this puzzle. The theme will not be my favourite sort… I’m at all times upset when there is no revealer. This was kind of “assortment of issues which have a factor in frequent, however you did not know what that factor was.” I hoped I’d put in one of many solutions and be like “Oh yeahhhh, I keep in mind studying that MULTIPLEX meant plywood…” (or no matter) however nope. I mainly stated “Huh, okay” 5 instances and that was the puzzle.

I’m wondering if I’d discover the double meanings extra spectacular if I hadn’t simply watched Richarlison’s bicycle kick however to be trustworthy there’s little or no that may impress me after that. That’s not the puzzle’s fault. My bar has been set impossibly excessive.

I’m very intrigued by the structure of this puzzle! Those stacks within the corners and the 4 pyramids of black squares are what I’d affiliate with a themeless puzzle. Kameron Austin Collins is at all times busting out the pyramids. This structure might be influenced by the central reply which is 11 letters long– it forces loads of blocks into place. I feel my favourite non-theme entries have been SAMOSA and SWOOSH. What about y’all?

Bullets:

  • [Six-time M.L.B. All-Star Mookie] for BETTS— I KNEW THIS ONE!! ATTENTION FOLKS! THERE WAS A BASEBALL CLUE THAT I, MALAIKA HANDA, KNEW THE ANSWER TO! BOW DOWN, PLEASE!!!
  • [Tooth holder] for JAW— I had “gum” after which I had “noticed” for sooo lengthy
  • Little EVA, who sang “Locomotion”– Let me let you know, I made it by way of this complete freaking puzzle and was like “Aww man was it actually solely males??” after which acquired to this clue and was like “Phew!!”

xoxo Malaika

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