Title: Jeffrey was playing with a Yo-Yo again!
Welcome to a double dose of me. Chris (MOE) thought it would be fun if I deciphered another JW puzzle and the request really fit into my near future as I will be busy on the 22nd and 29th out of town. I was tasked with one of Mr. Wechsler's visual themes, which without the circles would have been a near impossible challenge, but we have them so here we go.
25A. With 38-Across, what the highlighted squares suggest: AROUND THE (9). 38A See 25-Across: WORLD (5).
47A. With 49-Across, author of the novel suggested by this puzzle's theme; the movie debuted 10/17/1956: JULES (5). 49A. See 47-Across: VERNE (5). 80 days anyone?
Oh and the circled squares (doesn't that remind you of HOLLYWOOD SQUARES?
Back to the puzzle...the circles spell the magic magellan word CIRCUMNAVIGATION! Nifty!
Of course now you have to solve the entire grid to fill in the circles so that leaves work to do and a grid to examine. This one is chockful of longer words AFFIRMS, CURE ALL, NAILS IT (a C.C. favorite) RUNAWAY, SNIDELY, SONATAS (for Waseely and JzB) SWOLLEN, TAURINE (we all need vitamins and supplements) ADHERENTS, and MISJUDGED which has appeared only once before in puzzledom. HERE in one of Splynter's first blogs. Also, DREFT making its LAT debut though we have seen it in reader comments HERE which includes one of Boomer's first blogs. We continue our trend of non-traditional Fridays, and I look forward to reading your thoughts.
Off to the races.
Across:1. "More matter, with __ art": "Hamlet": LESS. This is obvious unless it isn't. Not one of Will's more famous quotations which some may find IRING at 1 Across.
5. Early music label: RCA. Radio Corporation of America.
8. Indulgent places: SPAS.
12. Playwright Chekhov: ANTON. He only lived to be 44 but he also was a well respected short story writer.
14. See 15-Across: OUT. I do not favor these reverse referentials.
15. With 14-Across, deal-breaking words: I WANT. Take your cup and clang it on the bars, works everytime.
16. Combined: IN ONE.
17. Play area: SET. Play as in production, not where you children go.
18. Partially, informally: SORTA.
19. Take off: RUN AWAY. A human would run away, and an airplane would just use the RUNWAY.
21. Gets an A+, say: NAILS IT. Yes, that is doing pretty well.
23. Cut back, in a way: DIETED. So much talk about diets... what did people do before influencers.
24. Spite: MALICE.
29. Added things: SUMS. A really simple clue/fill.
32. Brief alarm: SOS. Save Our Ship.
33. Parents can relax during them: NAPS. Anyone can.
1. Scottish estate holder: LAIRD. Macbeth was such a Lord.
2. Been-there-done-that feeling: ENNUI. I like this definition.
3. Pit: STONE. Peach ayone.
4. Brahms piano trio: SONATAS. This is more for Bill and Ron.
5. Optimistic: ROSY.
6. Prompt: CUE.
7. Routing abbr.: ATTN.
8. In danger of flooding, as a river: SWOLLEN. Be careful all cornerites.
9. Indian follower of Zoroastrianism: PARSI. A very old Religion which some consider the precursor of Judaism.
10. Bit of silliness: ANTIC. This word goes all the way back to 1520s.
11. City-__: STATE. Not as common as in history but we still have three - Singapore, Monaco, and the Vatican - the modern independent city-states.
13. More of a surprise: NEWER. A completely original clue for a common fill that does not make sense to me, nor sound like JW.
15. NBA legend Thomas: ISIAH. Do not be confused.
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20. Disturbance: ADO. It is, or forget it.
22. Receipt fig.: AMT.
26. It offered soldiers Hope: Abbr.: USO. The capital H tells us it means Bob's TOURS
27. Fish-fowl link: NOR. This has a long HISTORY.
28. Web transmission technology: abr.: DSL. Digital Subscriber Line.
29. An express might skip yours: Abbr.: STN. Different abbreviations for abbreviation.
30. Thurman on screen: UMA. Constructors love her letters, movie goers love her...
34. Followers: ADHERENTS. They stick to their guns.
35. Face front?: PRE. PREFACE.
36. Face front?: SUR. SURFACE. Nice misdirection for a clecho.
38. Small songbirds: WRENS.
39. P&G detergent brand: DREFT. It is interesting as we have had two references to this old-timey detergent recently but it never appeared as fill before.
42. Snake oil, purportedly: CURE ALL. Also an old-timey product that was marketed as a panacea. When I was very little I wondered where they found the "cea" to put in the pan.
43. __ Ewoldt, first Asian-American to play Christine in Broadway's "Phantom": ALI. Not Muhammed nor his daughter.
45. Boxer's speech?: ARF. Three letters, it can't be woof. 54D. Cur's warning: SNARL.
46. Dudley's toon foe: SNIDELY. Mr. Whiplash.
48. __ moment: SENIOR. When I was young, I would...ah...anyway.
49. Events for Biles: VAULTS.
50. Chore list items: TO DOS. Or they can be honey dos.
51. Criminal defense: ALIBI. I was in Boston having lunch with the Bishop.
53. San __, Northern California city: MATEO. We have one in Florida. LINK
57. Name of five Norwegian kings: OLAV. Olav is the modern equivalent in Norwegian, formerly often spelt Olaf. His name in Icelandic is Ólafur, in Faroese Ólavur, in Danish Olav, in Swedish Olof, in Finnish Olavi. Olave was the traditional spelling in England, preserved in the name of medieval churches dedicated to him.
60. Secure (to): TIE.
62. Sidekick: PAL. Nobody I kicked in the side ever became my pal.
42 comments:
I'm lousy at counting syllables, so please be gentle with these double-dactyls.
Hobelly-globally,
French JULES VERNE
Wrote of a trip
That took eighty days
This feat of British
CIRCUMNAVIGATION
Skipped twenty-four time-zones,
Took seventy-nine days!
† ‡ †
Figgildy-foggoldy
Jean Passpartout
Was a fine valet
In so many ways
Went AROUND THE WORLD
Extra-internationally,
But still messed up
On counting the days!
{A-, B+.}
Good morning!
Loved the puzzle, but hated the resulting DNF. At 15a d-o read "deal breaking words," but not the "With 14-Across." I WANT wound up as I WON'T. PORSI/PARSI -- what's the diff? Bzzzzzzt. On the plus side, it took less than 10 minutes to fail. Changing TASKS to TODOS was my only Wite-Out moment. Thanx, J.W. and L714.
A true Friday challenge. Thank you Jeffrey for the amusement. Lemonade, you are always informative. I had sussed CIRCUMNAVIGATION after writing down the letters, resulting in a jumble. I did not see the circular configuration until you portrayed it in your exposition.
As usual with the latter week puzzles the clues are more vague. I did not know Joanne of Film, P&G Detergent, Indian follower..., but FIR.
Now, to the one day obstacle blocking the Weekend.
I FIR but it was a struggle but Wechsler's puzzles are never straight forward solves. And I like them as they usually have very few proper names. There were very few fills on the grid until a few perps let me guess JULES VERNE. Changed SHALLOW to SWOLLEN for 9D that really got me going. The NW was the last to fall after a WAG of LESS for 1A, changing THANE to LAIRD and AS to IN ONE. Thought ENNUI (a crossword word) was boredom. I would have never filled it without the perps.
OBELI, ALI Ewoldt, & TAURINE- new words for me. BOVINE wasn't long enough. What's the word for "Cowish"?
DREFT- I remember it from way back, along with other P&G brands- IVORY SNOW, TIDE, CHER, FAB
Well, that SUMS it up for B.E. today. Pressure washing the driveway.
FIR, but had a bad start at 16 across when I put "in all" right off the bat.
Unlike last Friday this was a walk in the park. But I missed the trick that the circles would be connected by a circle
Re. 80 Days, VERNE. Wasn't the plot twist that upon arriving in London they thought they were late a day but had forgotten the ISD. As Owen alludes to
Never heard of DREFT.
WC
Good morning everyone.
After I was done, I noted the constructor. No wonder I enjoyed solving this one of Jeffrey's.
Got it all without aid. FIR. Wanted something like Smedley for the longest time before SNIDELY plopped in. With VAULTS, I saw we were going for JULES VERNE related stuff. Did not suss the circles, but didn't need to. Had to wait for RVS to get today's OLAV spelling. Favorite clue/fill was Hope:USO. OBELI became obvious, but was a new learning.
Tapir - - An odd-toed ungulate,
Have a great day.
Brahms Piano trios are not sonatas; a poor clue.
Normally I would just take a Thumper,
But there is no other place where I can complain...
I cannot do the Xword on the LA times site because an ad
In Spanish (which I can't read) for Chevrolet
Pops up every 5 seconds.
Incredibly annoying!
If anyone out there has ties to the LA Times,
Pls tell them for me that I am going to do the puzzle elsewhere,
And they are chasing people away from their website.
I'll be back to play when I find the puzzle again,
(Probably the Chicago site)
Thank you JeffWech for a challenging puzzle with lots of CIRCUITOUS logic. Nevertheless, I RIF (Right I Finished it). Very clever theme, which I got and which helped with the fill (what good themes should do!)
And thank you Lemony for an another excellent review.
I almost ran AGROUND on EAST COAST - when I changed 15A from I CAN'T to I WANT, things started to make sense (I don't like reverse clues either).
32A SOS. Favorite clue. Nowadays I think it stands for "SAVE OUR STATE".
50A TAURINE. I wasn't very BEARISH on "BULLISH?". TAURINE is also the name of an amino acid. The two dictionaries I consulted didn't agree on the precedence of these two definitions.
4D SONATAS Thanx Lemony for the CSO. I'm at a loss for what Jeff (or Rich) meant by this clue. "Sonata - a composition for an instrumental soloist, often with a piano accompaniment, typically in several movements with one or more in sonata form." (Oxford Languages Dict.) A piano trio is a piece for piano, violin, and cello, usually in 4 movements. Brahms wrote 3. The fact that one of the movements might be in "sonata form" (TMI to explain here), certainly doesn't qualify the piece as a "sonata". Perhaps Jeff will stop by and explain.
15D ISIAH. ... with ISAIAH?
35D and 36D FACING these clues was the hardest part. I love misdirection, yet I always fall for it.
46D SNIDELY. "Rocky and Bullwinkle" is my all time favorite cartoon series. Just what we needed to get through the Cold War. I hope we have what we need to get thru the Cold Civil War.
48D I had some SENIOR moments trying to suss SENIOR moments. As I think I already said, this was a CIRCUITOUS puzzle!
Cheers,
Bill
BE @ 6:59 AM I thought CHER was a CHANTEUSE. 👩
CED @9:38 AM Dave, you can get it here.
CED @10:07 AM The aforementioned may be the same site you're referring to. I don't get any ads while solving though, because I just print the puzzle and fill it with pencil (or INK if you prefer).
I always enjoy a Friday Jeff Wex - gets the mind working- though got a chuckle like Waseeley at having a SENIOR moment trying to solve SENIOR moment!
I took the simpler route at solving the Brahms piano trio - he wrote three piano SONATAS - thus a trio.
I used DREFT detergent only when I had little babies for their clothes and diapers- their skin can be so sensitive
https://www.whattoexpect.com/baby-products/baby-care/laundry-detergents-for-baby/#best-baby-laundry-detergent-
Thanks Lemonade and Jeff!
CED: Try this one....https://www.washingtonpost.com/crossword-puzzles/daily/
Always happy to see a JW byline as I consider him to be one of the more talented and creative constructors, and this puzzle was no exception. Not particularly difficult as I FIR in 14:23, which for me is pretty decent for a Friday. Great theme, and to work “circumnavigation” around the square and also tie in “around the world” and “Jules Verne” in a 15X15 is quite amazing! Also learned obeli, taurine, and Ali Ewoldt (who??). Thanks JW and Rich!
I found this incredibly difficult. I did manage to FIR, but took 46 minutes. W/Os OLAF:OLAV, TASKS:TODOS, SNIDLEY:SNIDELY. DNK LAIRD, DRU, PARSI, ALI, DREFT, so lots of perps needed. 4D I read as a particular piece written by Brahms for three pianos (DOH!!) so it took forever for SONATAS to fill, then, as others mentioned, I thought “Wait, WHAT?” Overall an incredibly clever CW, I can’t imagine constructing something with CIRCUMNAVIGATION encircling the CW. Wow! Congrats, and thanx for the challenge, JW. And thanx too to Lemonade for the wonderful write-up. When I look at the times others have finished this CW, it tells me again what a complete amateur I am. Oh well, I try.
I found this to be quite a difficult puzzle, but thank you, Mr. Jeff Wechsler.
Thank you Lemonade for your illuminating review .... I always learn a lot and much esoteric information. I was so exhausted after my completion ( with help -) that I never bothered about the circles ... thank you for the answer. Very Cute.
An interesting piece of Trivia ... Joanne Dru 's ( who I had no idea on - ) maiden name was Joan Letitia LaCock (sic). Not an inspiring name ... no wonder she took another one.
Also her elder brother was, Ralph Pierre LaCock, better known as Peter Marshall, who was the original host of Hollywood Squares, from 1966 to 1981. But, of course, you already knew that....
Now, on the count of three, we'll promptly forget about both of them ...
Now, what sort of detergent is named Dreft ?? it reminds me of only 4 words ... Dirt, daft, drift and Bereft.. the Ad Man who coined this mononym shoud probably, have been fired ...
Have a nice day, and a good weekend, all.
Although not a fan of the jump-around/split clue technique (and this one was loaded) I enjoyed JULES VERNE "AROUND THE WORLD in 80 Days" but didn't suss the circled letters AROUND the puzzle...🌍 but able to FIR
Ahhh ...
Circumnavigated!!!..nice!!!!....My 5's birthday: 5/15/50, (I was circumnavigated a day later)...means I'm TAURINE 🐂..DW would say: bull headed and full of.....
Inkovers: sta/STE, pen/SET
SENIOR moments (momenta?)....As a HS SENIOR I received as the French Club award a copy of Jules Verne's "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers". Talk about ENNUI: list after long list of marine species. I tried to translate with the "Petite Larousse" dictionaire I received as a Junior. I gave up after a couple of chapters. 🤯
ANTON Chekhov, "chekhed out" kinda young at 44.
Mom's CUREALL was something called Witch hazel...put in on anything.
What the pig-like animal's snout does....TAPIR
I do site...ALTER
SUM up the landlady's fees... ADHERENTS
Where a COVID mask is worn....PREFACE
Optimistic riveter....ROSY.
Enjoy the weekend..
Fun Friday puzzle, tough but clever, many thanks, Jeffrey. And thanks for your commentary and pictures, Lemonade. See you next month.
I actually got a lot more items than I expected to get, starting out with LESS and ANTON and ENNUI and SONATAS.
Loved having JULES VERNE fall into place.
After spending decades on campus, I of course got DEAN.
Have a great weekend coming up, everybody.
IH @10:41 AM Brilliant piece of misdirection and you are brilliant for not being taken in by it! The plural SONATAS gives it away.
Misty @1#'12 OM "got DEAN". Verb, past tense? 🤔
The circles actually helped me solve the theme. But I got stuck at the NW corner, so DNF.
Thanks token creek for the link, and Waseeley, your link is the same confounded site I tried on my iPad. I just tried it on the beach using my iPhone and got a bigger version of the same annoying repeating ad.
Unfortunately here on he beach there is not a printer in sight…
I used the Chicago Tribune site, which has been remodeled since I last used it, and it is a joy to behold with its nice
Clean interface. (Link to follow when I get home-with this iPhone my typing is all thumbs)
Kind of excited as I found an article by a chemist that might actually explain one of the biggest puzzles of all.
What were the pyramids used for?
I know the theories are a dime a dozen including wacky energy generators built by aliens, however this guy makes an interesting kind of technological sense…
It has its roots in what primitive farmers in off the grid areas do with waste materials to generate methane as a gas for cooking.
He comes up with some remarkably scientific theories starting with the red pyramid chambers and Nile water from th annual floods using water pressure in the chambers to convert waste generated methane in ammonia.
I know. Sounds crazy. But you have to see the technical schematics of how each chamber creates chemical changes by water under pressure
It does explain the residues found in different pyramid tunnels.
He also goes in to explain that different pyramids created different chemicals…
Wile he has not gotten to it yet it might also explain why one of the pyramids looks like it exploded!
Fascinating stuff!
FIR, eventually. Got most everything except the Mt. Rainier area, which was just a massive blizzard before I set out for our camping trip. After we got set up among the other RVS and got everything set up, I picked up the clipboard and remembered ANTON, fixed flyAWAY and weanED, then the rest fell into place.
Lots of fun as usual, Jeff Wech. And thanks to Lemony for the fun tour. Happy POETS day everyone.
One of the tings I found most interesting about today's puzzle is how easy it was clued, but how challenging to fill. Lucy and Inanehiker take a simpler approach and figure the clues in a linear fashion. Well done, see you
Fantastic Friday. Thanks for the fun, Jeffrey and Lemonade.
I FIRed (in 36 minutes unclefred!) and saw the CIRCUMNAVIGATION AROUND THE WORLD theme. Very clever.
But I was looking in vain for “In Eighty Days”! Instead we had IN ONE.
My face was prefaced by EFF. Nope, no ANTICs today - it was PRE and SUR.
Drift changed to DREFT, Growl to SNARL.
We all spelled ISIAH correctly today, right?!
OBELI required perps.
We had ADO and TO DOS.
Parents can use NAP time to relax or to catch up on chores. I preferred some of both when my kids were young.
Ray-o- LOL re momenta from the other day.
Wishing you all a great day.
CED @1:20 PM Of course it sounds crazy. What else would we expect from you! 😀
But it does seem to violate the KISS principle. Unlike Inanehiker's elegant explanation for the "Brahms piano trio" clue.
Hi All!
DNF - Took two peeks at Lem's grid to continue play (RASHER - not STRIPS??? & LESS [thoust didn't fit]). The theme was easy to catch onto (even w/o knowing what's in all the circles) based on the year of the movie and my having 'UND THE WORLD' but much fill are obscure (to me) words.
Thanks JW for the crunchy (even for you!) grid. Thanks Lem for the fine expo.
WOs: STa -> STN, strips->RASHER, spelled SNyDleY [sic]
ESPs: yep.
Fav: 26d's clue for USO
{B+, B+}
Waseeley - last night I rebuilt my test Windows lab. The domain is WADEANDERSON, the computers are Rocky, Bullwinkle, & Peachfuzz , and the two users are Boris.Badenov and Natasha.Fatale. :-)
Fun #1 Ray-Opropism.
Anyone ever watch Python's Michael Palin Around the World in 80 days? [ANTIC-free 3:13]
I saw a post last night re: someone convinced the US made Covid to control the population... and offered proof with an article showing bats on the back of US Quarters(!!!)
Two minutes of Google:
The Bat Quarter is one of 5 minted in 2020 as part of the US Mint's America the Beautiful series.
Big lies only require a modicum of bent-truth to be believed.
Um, I wrote the above bat-quarter thing before reading CED's pyramid scheme (wait, that sounds wrong....) and the above is, in no way, a response to CED (yet :-)).
Cheers, -T
Good afternoon Cornerites.
This is my first post since 9-24. Carol and I work puzzles in the night. I intend to post but haven't.
Thank you Jeffrey Wechsler for your enjoyable Friday CW.
Carol FIR by herself in 39:29 min.
Thank you Lemonade for your excellent review.
Ðavið
I loved this puzzle and greatly admire the theme and grid construction. I did follow the circled letters around the world and marveled at how they spelled out CIRCUMNAVIGATION. The two "Face front" entries side by side elicited a big smile, as did the clue for USO. I didn't get the SONATAS concept until inanehiker explained it. Nifty stuff.
I love a Wechsler that I can beat!
FIR, although that damn SNOUT almost stopped me. I woulda picked a more typical "Tapir feature"-- its lil' beady eyes.
Happy to see good ol' ANTON Chekhov. A favorite playwright... I got to direct a couple of his plays, stage managed one, and acted in another. What a lovely mind.
Lessee. No diagonals to speak of. As for the theme, I was hunting for "80 Days." I didn't have the patience to connect all the circled letters.
Thanks to you, Lemonade, for doing that for me!
Yep, he really did spell out CIRCUMNAVIGATION. Whoo-heee.
My nephew and niece's families live up in San Mateo county, in Pacifica CA.
Used a lot of LYSOL during the pandemic.
Lotsa funny thinking connecting these clues to these fills...
I couldn't believe it--DREFT! But double and triple checking left me no other choice. So, OK.
Everything I have learned since grad school I owe to crosswords!
OBELI also strange for me, although I use that dagger symbol sometimes when I am footnoting.
Until now, I assumed a RASHER meant something larger, like maybe a "slab" or "side" of Bacon . Nice to know it only means a strip. Much less threatening.
~ OMK
Musings
-Just home from subbing where I spent all day outside on a beautiful fall day starting with seniors in the morning and finishing with 7th graders.
-Words fail to express how wonderful this puzzle was. Jeffrey’s elegant puzzle is one of the best puzzles I have ever solved. Cleveness after cleverness just kept popping up! WOW!
-Teaching the physics of CIRCUMNAVIGATING the planet is a favorite topic of mine
-Starting with THANE/THOU/AS ONE/ERODED didn’t help!
-A Wechsler puzzle without Shakespeare is unthinkable.
-I thought the deal breaking was BUT I WON’T before the reverse of I WANT OUT was right. Cool!
-Having ISIAH recently helped
-We’re out the door to watch the same kids play and cheer for H.S. FB tonight.
-Thanks so much, Jeffrey!
Apologies for content, but since this is a site to discuss puzzles,
I thought you might get a kick out of the pyramid puzzle.
Yes Waseeley, I am a firm believer in the KISS method
(Keep it simple stupid)
But having cut, shaped and moved 2.3 million blocks of stone to build
The great pyramid alone, I don't think the dynastic Egyptians were
Believers in the kiss method...
And yes, you would not be remiss in thinking that this is batshit crazy.
But the funny thing is this "theory" got started by a chemist visiting the red pyramid
And noticed the strong smell of ammonia which most believed was caused by bat guano
In the dark passageways. But none of the other pyramids, which also had bats, smelled of
Ammonia. Why?
Yes, this guy is selling a book.
Yes, he rambles on, does not explain all details, and has holes in his theory.
But in weeding thru a lot of ramblings, some things make a lot of sense,
And deserve a closer look.
Cont...
Before I forget
Here is a link to The Chicago Tribune crossword site
You might enjoy its new format and ease of use.
Re:red pyramid
The chamber layout is very unusual, and bears a resemblance to
the original apparatus to make ammonia.
(See the Haber Process)
After weeding through hours and hours of rambling,
I think this animation might help.
start watching from 14:30 to avoid
Pulling your hair out....
If this peaks your interest,
He says each of the pyramids has different chamber layouts
For producing different chemicals fr9m ammonia..
Coming tomorrow:
New theory of using bat guano to regrow hair...
-T @3:06 PM
I think RASHER is more of a Brit term.
Who's PEACH FUZZ?
Pet project - I'm working on a "user guide" for bloggers and I was trying to locate the YouTube options for starting/ending a video in the middle somewhere. I'd done it once some time back and thought "If I only had 'grep'" I could find it easily in my blog HTML archive. Turns out (stop if you've heard) that you can install WSL ( "Windows Subsystem for Linux") and you can use Ubuntu Linux to muck with your Windows files. Bingo. Look for the YouTube options in a future user guide near you.
Personally, I think that the Egyptians would have been BATSH**T crazy to build brick sh**thouses on that scale. But maybe dead pharaohs needed to use a LOO on their journeys to the afterlife. 😆
Hi Y'all! I agree that Jeff Wex has produced a brilliant puzzle. Very nice, Lemonade. Hope you are planning a nice trip and not something that isn't enjoyed.
To understand the circled letters I had to line them up as shown, writing on a separate paper without the distraction of the other letters of the puzzle. Wow! CIRCUMNAVIGATION!
PRE & SUR Face filled by perps but still didn't understand them until Lemony 'splained. DUG!
DNK: LESS, DRU, ALI Ewold, OBELI, PARSI, DREFT. I did know about DREFT having had babies with rashes for which the soap was prescribed. For one kid, it took chlorine bleaching the cloth diapers to get rid of the rash.
I tried for a SErene moment before my SENIOR moment of which I have many.
Anyone heard from Picard whether they had to evacuate? I saw that US 101 had reopened but the fire was still raging elsewhere.
Want crazy theories? How about Winstin Churchill and Aristotle Onassis conspired to kill JFK.
Len Deifht in his TRIO of trilogies seems to hint at it. Virtual fact: the bullet that killed JFK was not fired by a Carcano and not from Depository.
WC
Puzzling thoughts:
FIR, but my WO’s were in the circled letters as I tried several other “CIRCULAR” or similar words first.
As others mentioned this was a great puzzle; fun to solve and very clean in the clues and solves
A “spoiler alert” that next Friday’s puzzle also features a constructor whose first name is Jeffrey but he goes by a Jeff. It’s a collaboration and uses a similar theme
One of my missteps was to try and force CIRCUMCISION into the circles, but it didn’t “make the cut”
Moe ku:
Choosing P & G
Powders, I go with the tide
If you catch my DREFT
Puzzling thoughts 2:
Thanks Jason for the recap and comments. Was my first reply “ebullient” enough for you??!! 😂😂
C-Moe: Mr. Chen And Mr. Gross perhaps???
Chen yes; Gross no
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