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e team of scientist russ bradford mining expert martin marty melville and pilot lee brand fly into unknown territory while searching the area however they uncover giant mutated earth animals such as a mouse an eagle a mygale a green iguana a tegu and a boa more importantly they encounter a mutated 25 ft tall one eyed human monster who became disfigured due to an exposure to radioactivity from massive radium deposits in the area this is responsible for the unusual size of all the other giant inhabitants of the region he kills melville but appears to recognize the girl when the cyclops tries to prevent the rest of the group from flying to safety he is wounded and presumably dies well i really hope you re up on your odyssey i am reread it earlier this year and i still found this one harder than usual perhaps because it was thought necessary to keep all i s out of the clues as well as the grid when you tie your hand behind your back like that or poke your own eye out to use another metaphor it s hard to do your job in this case write clues effectively i was wondering why the cluing felt off and kinda stodgy and sluggish and then i got to the revealer and realized the trick they were playing but the question is what does that trick get you except subpar cluing like why do it nobody has noticed as they re solving i guarantee you and no one is going to feel as if their solving experience was enhanced by having had i s removed from the clues the grid ok whatever that seems fitting but the clues you only lose you do not gain by taking your little maiming gambit into the clues it s a terrible decision that negatively affects the basic solving experience a feature that makes the puzzle worse and that no one will notice until they re told it s baffling but that s just the beginning of this puzzle s execution problems polyphemus is a cyclops the odyssey is rather explicit about this he is one of many he is the main cyclops in the story the only one that has a name that i can recall but he is in no sense the cyclops in homer s odyssey the cyclopes are an uncivilized group of shepherds the brethren of polyphemus encountered by odysseus wikipedia so the cyclops ugh that answer was a clank and a half also are you doing an odyssey puzzle or aren t you the theme clues kept veering in and out of the odyssey explicitly invoking it here pretending not to notice it there i can t see is absurdly clued a poke a poke i can t see is literally no one s cry after a poke i don t know if i m more mad about a be specific or poke you poke someone to annoy them or get their attention a poke does not maim you the whole thing is absurd without explicit reference to the odyssey also the puzzle seems to want to make a gruesome act of maiming comical whimsical and then wandered is just down there on its own no idea what it s doing just wandering with only the vaguest relation to the theme should i just stand here like this guys is this the right spot why am i here again we need you to provide symmetry for i can t see but i don t have anything to do with eyes or seeing my thing s more wandering plus there s no symmetrical counterpart for maim so can i just wander no do as you re told and stay put well fine but it s against my nature i m just saying wandered everybody before i even got to the theme i sort of doubled over and heaved a sigh at how unpleasant it seemed like the fill was going to be floras oof over levela and agates crossing aleph which is crossing phat lots more oof the kind of oof that makes me stop and take a screenshot again all before i got to the theme all the i s in the world all the eyes of argus couldn t have saved some of this fill it levels off i e comes back to something like an acceptable norm elsewhere in the grid but overall it s still underwhelming hardest parts for me were the proper nouns don t really know sasha and definitely don t know non luthor lex had to run the alphabet for that x after takes a toll on ended up not being tires the one answer that just about broke me was stably even now it doesn t quite look like a word i keep mentally pronouncing it stab ly i e in the manner of a stab maybe it s an oblique reference to the maiming up top no it s just the adverbial form of stable ably has never perp lex ed me but stably yikes it just jams my synapses notes 7a mental ___ math i have no idea what this is is there a physical math that i missed in school a calisthenic arithmetic maybe 70a wrap for a monarch cocoon this was one clue that came off very nicely lovely misdirection 3d watermelon shaped oval isn t ovate more appropriate i think of oval as more of a two dimensional shape wikipedia says an oval is a closed curve in a plane and again i didn t take all the math classes in school mental or otherwise as we ve established but in a plane suggests 2 d to me watermelons on the other hand notoriously 3 d 27d eschew the pews elope told ya they cannot lay off elope can not elope and arson just trigger some irresistible punning rhyming whimsical wordplay urge as i discussed at length this past friday 49d quest for some athletes gold i had goal on many levels my answer works just not the level that counts level a 56d food products wholesaler sysco never quite sure of the spelling there s also the cisco kid rattling around in my brain somewhere not to mention the thong song guy pretty sure he s a sisqo yep ooh and with an accent over the o ó la la 9d flotsam and jetsam trash i had dross which is less nautical than flotsam and jetsam but at least as nautical as trash and a hell of a lot more poetic signed rex parker king of crossworld follow rex parker on twitter and facebook read more save and share posted by rex parker at 5 00 am 119 comments labels joseph gangi essie competitor tue 4 16 24 pigment used in the lascaux cave certain immature adult japan s national fish gesundheit prompter vodka brand in a blue bottle tuesday april 16 2024 constructor adam vincent relative difficulty easy very theme manbaby 39a certain immature adult with a hint to both halves of the answers to each starred clue men whose last names are baby animals theme answers stephen fry 16a actor who played oscar wilde in wilde fish ryan gosling 10d mouseketeer peer of britney spears and justin timberlake gander samuel colt 62a inventor who patented the first revolver stallion charles lamb 24d english essayist who wrote lawyers i suppose were children once ram word of the day barbacoa 8d beef option at chipotle barbacoa spanish baɾβaˈkoa is a form of cooking meat that originated in the caribbean with the taíno people who called it by the arawak word barbaca from which the term barbacoa derives and ultimately the word barbecue in contemporary mexico it generally refers to meats or whole sheep or whole goats slow cooked over an open fire or more traditionally in a hole dug in the ground covered with agave maguey leaves although the interpretation is loose and in the present day and in some cases may refer to meat steamed until tender this meat is known for its high fat content and strong flavor often accompanied with onions and cilantro coriander leaf wikipedia it s a weirdly gendered insult that i don t generally hear and certainly wouldn t use but i guess it has enough currency to be a crossword theme why not it s the gender part that ends up being the one weak link in the theme since all the animals are identified by specifically male terms except fish fish is just fish no gendered term for baby fish which makes this answer stick out more than it already did fry being a word i almost never hear except metaphorically with the word small in front of it if you d asked me the word for a young any of the non fish animals in this grid i would ve known immediately but fry uh yes that is a stage in fish development between larva and fingerling i e once the fish becomes capable of feeding itself but before it s developed scales and working fins per wikipedia but perhaps because they aren t generally visible unless you have a fish tank and aren t particularly adorable i would not have put them in the baby category but fish are animals and fry are young ones and stephen fry gets you an answer symmetrical to samuel colt so there you go still nothing male about it so the man baby theme you ve taken pains to establish in all the other theme clues kind of falls apart there stephen fry made me laugh because i have no idea what wilde is so this being crosswords i wrote in stephen rea this made me remember that stephen rea appeared in a grid recently and a bunch of solvers got so mad because the answer wasn t fry let s see if i can find the puzzle where this happened here we go april 4 2024 the martini puzzle the clue was stephen of v for vendetta which both three letter stephens were in so you can see why a solver might be mad me i ve been solving crosswords for over three decades since the early 90s when stephen rea gained some fame because of his role in the crying game so rea is just a reflex at this point unless you are certain about stephen fry the three letter acting stephen is always rea the name with the more crossword friendly letters wins that s the rule thanks for playing it s been that way since 1993 though you might occasionally see the term mens rea legal latin for intention of wrongdoing and if you re lucky you might get a musical appearance from chris rea but today ooxteplernon the god of short bad fill i mean crosswordese betrayed me and failed to give me the rea i instinctively expected he is a capricious god a man baby some might say some but not me i really don t want to make him angry solvers should make a point to honor him every october 30 for that was the one and only day upon which he showed his fearsome aspect to solverkind way back in 2009 the traditional offering is oreos you could try nilla wafers but i wouldn t risk it i had big baby before manbaby and thought that the bigbaby bigbird crossing was some kind of thematic thing but then big didn t work for the baby answer so i changed it to man i don t know if goo over baby is intentional mens rea but it s a nice touch goo being half a baby sound the only tough parts of this puzzle were the first names of colt and to a lesser extent lamb having a ph d in english means the 18th century essay guy is a lot more familiar to me than the gun guy oh and i had no idea about the n f l coach but crosses just blew right through him no real problem when you finish the puzzle but don t get the congratulations message bullets 10a ___ czar n y c government position whose job listing called for a virulent vehemence for vermin rat tl dr for sure scanned the clue saw vermin wrote in rat the end 65d deserving of a fire emoji as a party lit i had hot 64d essie competitor opi nail polish 25a starting point for a record setting swim in 2023 s nyad cuba so presumably the starting point for a record setting swim in real life the movie was non fiction right weird clue 56a pepper and o leary of classic rock abbr sgts literal record scratch sound in my brain wait hold up i nearly blew right past this because sgt pepper is a gimme but o leary did you did you really just gratuitously throw a billy joel reference in there sgt o leary the one who s walking the beat at night he becomes a bartender trading in his chevy for a cadillac ac ac ac ac ac wow he s in one verse of the song not even the title or anything that is some deep billy joel commitment not sure who to blame for this one but i m gonna guess joel 53d word in the title of broadway s longest running show opera ladies and gentlemen my sincere reaction to this answer was wow three penny opera ran that long longer than cats or les miz or phant oh signed rex parker king of crossworld follow rex parker on twitter and facebook read more save and share posted by rex parker at 5 17 am 72 comments labels adam vincent older posts home subscribe to posts atom thanks for your support your contributions help keep this site strong independent and ad free click this paypal icon to contribute or use venmo michaeldavidsharp or send your contribution via snail mail rex parker c o michael sharp 54 matthews st binghamton ny 13905 4013 thank you why support this site what is a natick a long time ago i was solving this puzzle and got stuck at an unguessable to me crossing n c wyeth crossing natick at the n i knew wyeth but forgot his initials and natick is a suburb of boston that i had no hope of knowing it was clued as someplace the boston marathon runs through anyway natick the more obscure name in that crossing became shorthand for an unguessable cross esp where the cross involves two proper nouns neither of which is exceedingly well known natick took hold as crossword slang and the term can now be both noun i had a natick in the sw corner or verb i got naticked by 50a 34d daily crossword blogs diary of a crossword fiend about me rex parker confluence new york i am the greatest crossword solver 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