I went out this morning to get the newspaper and almost fell over with the smell of smoke. We had/have the Yuba fires north of us and the Napa/Santa Rosa fires wafting up here thanks to the Delta sending its ashes and smoke in this direction. Would have truly smiled if Annie Oakley had made the cut. Did anyone else have MOBILE instead of RATTLE? No, probably not.ĭon't know why JAKE is OK. That whole eastern section held me up something fierce. Ergo, whoever was the outlaw had a name that ended in U.I also had the private as a SoLdier for a while. I don't know IGA and when I got to 49A I wanted Banks to be Eubie. I thought I knew all the wild west shows - I certainly watched a gazillion of them growing up and yet my cowboy ignorance reared its horse head at IKE CLANTON. What a strange puzzle that I actually enjoyed. So the puzzle's got problems, but not enough to keep me from basically enjoying it. But I've seen much worse grids, and WILLOWY and MONIKER are nice little words. Gotta have a lot of SANG / FROID to attempt that cruddy French combo. ARB is among my least favorite pieces of crosswordese. And I'm still not sure SALUTERs or SNARLERs or OCHRES (plural?) exist, ouch. I wouldn't know that place existed without crosswords. MACAO (not MACAU!?) at 1-Across tells you things are gonna get Old School right quick. Anyway, despite the revealer issues, I think the theme is a winner. None of the other participants fit, except MORGAN EARP, who isn't exactly, uh, the famous one. But I don't know what else could've gone is the GUNFIGHT AT space. Instead the revealer-the punchline!-has a clue that starts. "Gunfight" could've easily been incorporated into the clue for THE OK CORRAL, which stand just fine on its own. The theme is really only about the corral. Wish that space could've been used for something else theme-related. But the puzzle tells me it's a CORRAL and I'm like "well, look at that, it *is* a CORRAL! Got no livestock or horses in it, but sure!" Themewise, the only part I didn't really like was GUNFIGHT AT. Like, if you drew that shape on a board and asked people to guess what it is all day long, no one would ever say "CORRAL." "Square! Box! Frame! Room? Postage stamp? uh. Just the idea that a simple four-sided figure is supposed to be a "CORRAL" is hilarious to me. This gag is so ridiculous that I like it. A former Portuguese colony, it was returned to Chinese sovereignty on 20 December 1999. With a population of 650,900 living in an area of 30.5 km 2 (11.8 sq mi), it is the most densely populated region in the world. Hong Kong lies about 64 kilometres (40 mi) to its east across the Delta. Macau is bordered by the city of Zhuhai in Mainland China to the north and the Pearl River Delta to the east and south. Macau ( / m ə ˈ k aʊ/ ( listen)), also spelled Macao and officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous region on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia. Word of the Day: MACAO ( 1A: East Asia gambling locale). THEME: THE OK CORRAL (GUNFIGHT AT THE) (28D: With 62-Across, renowned 1881 event that lasted about 30 seconds) - there is a "corral" of sorts in the middle of the grid made out of synonyms of "OK" (WELL, JAKE, FINE, FAIR) two of the gunfighters also make an appearance ( DOC HOLLIDAY, IKE CLANTON) ( 17A: Deputy marshal at 62-Across, 11D: Outlaw at 62-Across)
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