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Some bach compositions crossword clue1/31/2024 A rant about E INK could be dubbed an event. An online vote for someone could be an eyes. So I don’t go along with the grumpy etude about this. This whole new escape is growing bigger and bigger, and it’s pretty cool. E INK, its appearance, what it represents, pleases me. I’m liking this new prefix e that makes words electronic. I tell ya, ENTROPY just isn’t what it used to be, right? Find a word that follows the trick and is the revealer and then find a matching 11 for that symmetry. (This is Chen, after all.) BAD EGGS, I’M LOST, BEER MUG, HOT SAKE, ENTROPY, PAIRS UP…Check.Ĥ. Make sure a lot of the downs are very good. Do this again ‘til you have symmetrical pairs. Find words with alternating letters to spell two separate words. Next puzzle, please” comment, but this morning I’m truly stunned that people aren’t falling all over themselves to admire this beauty.ġ. I’m normally kind of surprised when people do a “Ho-hum. I put my pencil down, stared at the refrigerator, and silently worshiped the constructor waters that Jeff walks on. I know I have no credibility here, Little Miss Gushpot, but honestly – I didn’t have an aha moment. Here's where I figured out the basic gag: Plus (side note) how does no one, from the constructor to the editor(s) to the proofreaders, pick up the REAR dupe (it's the answer to 42A *and* the clue for half of 48A)?! There were some entertaining bits, and it certainly had enough bite for a Thursday, but no cleverness, no humor, no real cohesion, so not much to be gladdened by. What's worse, it sputters *and* it's made tougher than usual (to make up for the easy themers), so you have to work harder, but the results are the results, and they include ATTA ETTA CUEIN AYS NSC UAE ARTOO … the justly reviled two-H version of AHH … and the horrid-masquerading-as-hip E-INK (28A: Technology inside Kindles). The theme is dense, but because it does not take much thought to figure out, and because it's not funny or otherwise engaging, our attention turns more to the fill, which sputters. Diverting little bits of wordplay, but not worth building a whole Thursday puzzle around. Honestly, the theme is like one of those one-star (difficulty) Games magazines puzzles, shoe-horned into a grid. The theme is both the easiest and least interesting part of the puzzle. Needs another level of … something … to be good. Answers occasionally feel contrived ( CIA SPIES) or highly arbitrary ( BLUE TITS). The theme answers have nothing to do with each other. This theme is a kind of curiosity, but it's not very compelling.
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