Matt Jones’s Jonesin’ Crossword, “Change of Pace” – Erin’s write-up

Jonesin’ answer 11/8/22

Hello everybody! It’s time to sluggish issues down…or velocity them up, should you favor, by substituting letters within the phrase PACE.

• 17a. [“Umbrella Academy” actor] ELLIOT PAGE
• 21a. [Wrinkly “Dick Tracy” villain in a Ned Flanders flashback] PRUNEFACE
• 34a. [Cold War-era treaty of 1955] THE WARSAW PACT
• 41a. [Add-on that adds new objects and characters to a game] EXPANSION PACOk
• 54a. [Down-to-the-wire election] TIGHT RACE. I’m positive we’ll be seeing loads of these within the subsequent 24 hours.
• 62a. [Glass sheet] WINDOW PANE

Other issues:

• 15a. [“For real”] NO CAP. From AAVE cap, that means “lie.”
• 4a. [Winner of the 2002 World Series] ASTRO. I’m Philly-adjacent so I didn’t want the reminder of one of many two main championships Philadelphia misplaced that day.
• 64a. [Philosopher Descartes] RENE. Also the title of Amy Reynaldo’s husband who ran the New York City Marathon final weekend! Congrats!
• 51d. [Animated movie series with Gingy] SHREK. Gingy is the nickname of The Gingerbread Man within the film franchise.

Until subsequent week!

Elizabeth C. Gorski’s Cr♥ssw♥rd Nation puzzle (Week 597), “Rear-View Mirroring”—Ade’s take

Crossword Nation puzzle answer, Week 597: “Rear-View Mirroring”

Good day, all people! I hope you’ve been doing properly these days and having fun with the summer season, err, fall climate to this point! Almost 80 levels in New York at the moment…my phrase!

You actually needed to look forwards and backwards to determine at the moment’s theme, as puns have been created from widespread phrases by including a phrase on the finish of the phrase. It seems that the ultimate phrase of the originating phrase is spelled backwards within the added phrase AND kinds an precise phrase as properly that finally ends up making the pun-centered magic occur!

• • • CUSTOM-MADE EDAM (16A: [Dutch cheese that’s not mass-produced?]) – Custom-made + Edam
    • VICTORY LAP PAL (28A: [Friend at a track star’s celebratory run?]) – Victory lap + pal
    • TRUCK STOP POTS (45A: [Cooking vessels at a highway diner?]) – Truck cease + pots
    • STICKY BUNS SNUB (60A: [Rebuke of gooey pastries?]) – Sticky buns + snub

Liked the contact of getting COMPETES intersect the “victory” half within the second theme entry (5D: [Vies]). Oh, after which there’s the intersection of ARENAS (58A: [Sports venues]) and ESPN, a really becoming meet-up if there ever was one in a grid (59D: [“Baseball Tonight” airer]). Of the stacked eights within the northeast and southwest, undoubtedly was a fan of NARCISSI, even when I can’t get having to learn Narcissus and Goldmund in my junior 12 months of highschool out of my head in the mean time (35D: [Yellow flowers]). We’ll be seeing/worrying about many a POLL over the subsequent 24 hours or so given Election Day is upon us. (8A: [Gallup survey]).

“Sports will make you smarter” second of the day: PENN (65A: [Sean of “Mystic River”]) – Many sports activities followers are aware of the 1979 NCAA Men’s Final Four, which featured Magic Johnson’s Michigan State group defeating Larry Bird’s Indiana State squad within the nationwide championship sport, nonetheless the highest-rated basketball sport (any degree) within the historical past of the Nielsen scores. There have been two different groups who competed within the Final Four. One of the groups was DePaul, led by future NBA All-Star and champion Mark Aguirre. The different was the final Ivy League group to succeed in the Final Four, the University of Pennsylvania. Penn made one of the crucial unbelievable Cinderella runs in NCAA Tournament because the East’s No. 9 seed (there have been solely 10 groups in every area), defeating Iona, top-seeded North Carolina, Syracuse and St. John’s to succeed in Salt Lake City. Penn would lose within the nationwide semifinals to Michigan State earlier than dropping an additional time thriller to DePaul within the third place (comfort) sport.

Thank you a lot for the time, all people! Have a beautiful and secure remainder of your day and, as at all times, hold fixing!

Take care!

Ade/AOK

Aaron Ullman’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “I Can’t Talk About It”—Jim P’s evaluate

Theme: Things you’re not supposed to speak about. The revealer is SAY NO MORE (65a, [“I got you, fam”]). Nudge nudge, wink wink.

Wall St Journal crossword answer · “I Can’t Talk About It” · Aaron Ullman · Tue., 11.8.22

• 17a. [As a rule, 65-Across about this group in a 1999 cult classic film] FIGHT CLUB. First rule of Fight Club: Don’t speak about Fight Club.
• 24a. [No, no, no–65-Across about this Disney uncle] BRUNO MADRIGAL. I wanted all of the crossings since I didn’t acknowledge the title. I by no means noticed the movie Encanto, however I did hear concerning the tune “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.” I’m assuming “No, no, no” is a line from the tune. (It is.)
• 40a. [Shhh! 65-Across about that–it’s just between us] OUR LITTLE SECRET. After the very particular cases within the first two entries, I used to be a bit of let down by this one. But just like the others, it’s one thing that shouldn’t be talked about overtly.
• 52a. [Alert! 65-Across about the plot twists] MOVIE SPOILERS. Similarly, this felt fairly generic, particularly since spoilers apply to TV and books as properly.

So yeah, the primary two entries led me to imagine we’d be on the lookout for particular objects from popular culture, so I needed to recover from that. But I did actually benefit from the premise right here, and missing some other particular potential entries, the latter two do certainly work for me.

YOGI BERRA and “TRUE STORY!” are each enjoyable lengthy fill entries. At the opposite finish we have now a few of the ordinary suspects showing in at the moment’s crosswordese catalog: ICI, ETAT, EEOC, ERTE, LOCI. But largely the fill is strong and gettable.

Clue of be aware: 1d. [Amazon’s Bezos]. JEFF. The E is crossing ELO [“Don’t Bring Me Down” rockers]. This appeared like a great place for a JEFF Lynne clue.

And that’s all I’ve. Nice grid. I needed to regulate my expectations a bit, mid-way by means of, however it’s all good. 3.5 stars.