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FWIW, this is back to screwy in Safari 4 ... |
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How does it look now, Alex? |
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Bee-youtiful! Don't know what you did, but it worked. |
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Yep! Pretty amazing puzzle! |
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Despite the Wikipedia entry "...regarded by some as racially offensive by today's standards...", I never considered the "Amos & Andy" TV sitcom 'racist' at all. Maybe overly-stereotypical, but that is something that seems to be the case with many sitcoms -- black and white. Would you consider 'Sanford and Son' or 'Good Times' racist? Both played on negative stereotypes as much or more than 'Amos & Andy' ever did, and in a more enlightened time. |
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Given that African-American groups protested the show in the '50s and I don't recall those '70s shows being targeted, I'll have to give the benefit of the doubt to the protesters in the '50s. If they found it offensive or insulting, then it was ipso facto offensive or insulting. |
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i don't know anything about 1950s TV, but i do know that this was a sensational puzzle by kevin g. der. wonderful fill, wonderful clues. REAL EASY it was not! by the way, i think REAL EASY is just as colloquial as "duck soup," so that didn't bother me. |
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i loved kevin's puzzle, too -- lots. but didn't adore ACER. just completed jeff chen's clever lat and whaddaya know -- there's ACER... again (this time in the company of the similarly less-strong AIMER). and EMU clued as it was in a recent cs as a [lean meat]... can't say this is my fave way to think of the EMU... ;-) |
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Erasmus was Dutch?! That's funny. The only reason I could finish the puzzle was cause I thought he was Swiss! |
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Foxtrot and Archie make 9. 10th, anyone? |
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no, i got the same 9. actually 8, since i didn't see NANCY carefully hidden down there in ... NANCY. (oops.) is OPERA a comic strip? how about RATIO? TAINT? i got nothin'. |
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Very enjoyable puzzle by Mr. Der. The only thing that struck me as odd was "Cheerios, abroad" -- since "cheerios" already are abroad. Not that it's wrong, just felt strange....maybe because "abroad" in this case could mean right here at home. i.e. abroad from England. |
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Janie, I often have the same thought about EMU and whatnot being clued as meat and not as living beings. Don't like that! Now if you'll excuse me, there's a plate of chicken calling to me. |
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Finally, a crossword writer who gets the Amos & Andy thing! Amy, thanks for empathizing with the African American perspective. To dismiss that show as non-racist, is akin to apologist men dismissing sexism against women in the workplace. African Americans have spoken out about this for years, if folks bothered to listen. |
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BC! |
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In the BEQ there's FOXTROT coming up diagonally from the lower right square, ARCHIE above ANNIE, and.....i dunno. (I didn't notice ANNIE or NANCY when I solved it) |
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Oh hey someone beat me to it! |
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Very good and hard for me, partly because my printout was marred. I had a lot of false starts, such as K-Mart instead of Kohl's (new to me) and, given the E, egg sauce for Hollandaise. Erasmus did puzzle me, because I think of him as Erasmus of Rotterdam who later moved to Paris and just published elsewhere, but what do I know. |
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Re: BEQ |
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What is Dot? Can't find any record of it. |
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@crosscan- |
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Okay. So DOT is coincidental and, therefore, BC is the legit tenth? |
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Did you notice that each extra letter added to the long answers in the WSJ 7/3 puzzle spelled out LIBERTY ? Not only that, they appeared in the right order and not as an anagram. |
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