Emeril is, in fact, one of the truly great chef's of America. Emeril's "Bam!" was playing to the crowd, a bit annoying, but not enough to brush him off like that.
#KICK IT UP A NOTCH CHEF CROSSWORD CRACK#
I'm not a sports fan but I did recall (somehow) Alma Ata so could not have gotten A Ten without it.īut what is that condescending crack about Emeril? Yes, Rex, you and I must be very different. Once again, if it's not in Rex's wheelhouse it isn't important. This puzzle shows you haven’t lost a step.
With 116 NYT puzzles amply represented every day of the week. This felt like Saturday puzzles should feel, skillfully repelling me at every turn, and yet leaving a sliver of light to tantalize me further in, reminding me of Leonard Cohen’s lyric: Clues ran from devilishly vague to devilishly clever. Unusually for me, that triple stack in the middle was the easiest to fall.įor the second day in a row, we have such beautiful NYT debut answers, answers that enrich the oeuvre: FLIRTATIOUS, KICKS IT UP A NOTCH, I’M SO EXCITED, ALL TATTED UP, and HAM HOCK. But here and there, crosses would reluctantly emerge. So it was back to wrangling with clues that already spurned me. So many times when I thought I finally broke this thing open by placing in a new answer I was sure of, I checked the crosses, certain that new answers would appear, but no. Wondered if maybe Massenet wrote an opera about Le C.I.A.
1A: Kind of poet ( BEAT) - opened the puzzle, saw this clue, and thought, "SLAM!" As I got up to close my office door before solving, I thought " BEAT!" And then as I was sitting back down, I thought "LAKE!" Any other four-letter poet plausibilities.I am usually Terrible at mentally calibrating these things. answers, but I was thrilled to guess this one correctly on the first go. 48D: Jump over ( OMIT) - "Jump" is terrible here, you'd say "skip." I know you want to mislead people, but keep the clues at least plausible.But the struggle down there didn't last long, as the crosses were easy enough to get. No constructor leaps at a chance to put ATEN in there (The "A" stands for "Atlantic" btw). again, no one's going to accuse that of being good fill. A-TEN adds to the unpleasantness down there leagues change shape and size seemingly every year and I can no longer really keep track. It screams "crutch." No one but no one is dipping into the "bygone Kazakh place names" jar if it's not an absolute emergency. No one puts that in the grid unless they are Desperate for a bunch of low-value Scrabble TILEs to make the corner work out. I know for sure that the constructor didn't think it was a cool thing to put in the grid. well, I guess a "former name" always has the chance of being better known, but in this case, uh, no. Truth is, I couldn't have told you the *current* name of Kazakhstan's largest city, so "former name". The SW was tough because LOL what in the world is ALMA-ATA? That answer is a real blot on this otherwise not-full-of-arcane-trivia puzzle. King's version of " THE THRILL IS GONE" the stack of longer answers in the middle is solid, but KICKS IT UP A NOTCH feels like an Emeril slogan at this point, and I guess if you like remembering Emeril, hurray, but if you like remembering Emeril, you and I are very different. The high point was probably just remembering B.B. Pretty easy stuff, with only the SW and NE proving in any way KNOTTY.
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