Grrrr...!
The Red Protector, known as Jamsran in Mongolia
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Puzzle by
Fred Piscop, edited by Will ShortzI find it fascinating how a crossword will speak to one solver in an entirely different language than to another -- there are those who wish to rush through the experience as though it were a mere trifle and others who savor same as though it were a truffle, an etymological delicacy oozing from the deep recesses of the constructor’s mind up through the cracks of a solemn surface, turning bloggers into barking dogs!
MONGREL EMPIRE (20A. Genghis Khan’s non-pedigree domain?), CUR CURRICULUM (38A. Non-pedigree essential courses?) and MUTTVILLE NINE (57A. Casey’s non-pedigree team?) are the interrelated entries of this Wednesday crossword, punning the Mongol Empire, curriculum and Mudville Nine, the joyless baseball team of “Casey at the Bat”
Words from Alphonse or Gaston are AFTER YOU, and ULTIMATE appears to be the name of the Frisbee game involving body contact, those being the only other long entries -- however, here are a few links for the day: ATOMIC (1D. Like super precise clocks); LUTIST (34D. Elizabethan ballad player, maybe); OLIVER (49D. Twist of fiction); RENOIR (2D. “The Bathers” painter)
I, myself, step cautiously from puzzle to puzzle. Quo vadis?
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