![]() ![]() 8D: _ Johnson ( MAGIC) - took me an Embarrassingly long time to get this, esp.That might have been my first guess here. Also, yesterday, I had no trouble coming up with ASAHI as the other Japanese beer I know. ![]() 7D: Sapporo competitor ( ASAHI) - weird.3D: Emirate dweller ( ARAB) - had the "A" and instinctively started writing AMIR.As with the UNADON clue, this one is recycled verbatim from its last appearance ( January). Started out, only a few months back, as a mystery, but I've seen it at least twice since. 1D: Classic record label for Bee Gees and Cream ( ATCO) - this is actually a gimme now.65A: Pothook shape ( ESS) - Knew the answer instantly, but realize I have no idea what a "pothook" is: not surprisingly, " Pothooks are S-shaped metal hooks for suspending a pot over a fire" (wikipedia).41A: Russian country house ( DACHA) - Probably learned this from "Anna Karenina." Or from crosswords.OWOW feels made-up ( 25D: "Geez! That stings!"). The SW corner - AGR over TEL over ESS - is especially weak, even for a short-fill corner, and nearby AGAR ( 54A: Food thickener) just looks like AGR's fat cousin. 37A: La Choy product ( CHICKEN CHOW MEIN).23A: Post-copyright status ( PUBLIC DOMAIN).17A: King who was son of Pepin the Short ( CHARLEMAGNE).Grid was unremarkable to me except for PRIVATE EYE ( 11D: Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade), which I like. Nearly got my groin, frankly, as I ran all the Downs down there and came up with nonsense - this because I had RIND for PARE ( 56D: Peel), another trick(y) clue. BRAIDED MANE doesn't exactly trip off the tongue (for non-equestrians), and shoving UNADON and ANSA ( 57D: Jug handle, in archaeology) in the same small corner of the grid seems designed to kick a few newbies in the groin. That SE corner will likely cause at least a little trouble for someone. Everything came together OK, it just took a bit longer than normal. Don't normally see blatant, cheap trickery on a Tuesday. One of the perks of working for The Man, I guess :) There was also some obviously intentional trick cluing, like 21A: River that ends in Cairo for OHIO and 45D: Excessively fast for STARVE. Apparently she has special dispensation to use this word. Ĭonstructor of that puzzle from two years ago: Paula Gamache. I thought my sushi vocabulary was pretty strong. or so I thought - here's what I wrote about UNADON last time it showed up, over two years ago:Ħ9D: Japanese eel and rice dish (unadon) - great-looking word. I was very sluggish on this one, first because I couldn't figure out which CHARLES was the king in question - it wasn't any CHARLES, but CHARLEMAGNE - and second because I've never heard of UNADON. Unadon takes its name from the Japanese words Unagi no Kabayaki (鰻の蒲焼, literally "grilled eel") and donburi (for rice bowl dish). It is traditional to add sanshō (山椒, Sichuan pepper) as a condiment. The other is the Kansai Region Style (関西式), which is grilled with sauce only. ![]() One is the Kantō region Style (関東式), in which the eel is roasted first, smothered, and finally grilled with sauce. ![]() Variations include unajū (鰻重, a very similar dish served in a black box rather than a donburi bowl), nagayaki (長焼き, the eel and rice are served separately), and hitsumabushi (櫃まぶし). "eel bowl", less commonly spelled "unagidon") is a popular donburi (rice bowl) dish made with unagi kabayaki, grilled eel coated with a sweet sauce. Word of the Day: UNADON ( 47D: Japanese eel and rice dish) -Īn Unadon (鰻丼 lit. THEME: What, no Kenny Mayne? - all theme answers have some homophone of "MAYNE" as their last word/syllable ![]()
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