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#Sub rosa crossword driver
I assumed was not being said by a '50s cab driver with a 5 o'clock shadow and a cigar stub hanging out of the corner of his mouth, so I went with BUD, but apparently the correct answer is BUB, which no one has ever called their actual "pal." I also screwed up the laugh syllable (shocker), going with HARS instead of HAHS at first for 51D: Disbelieving laughs. What's worse, the hiccups I did have involved the most tedious of fill. I didn't even have interesting mistakes or hiccups.
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I can only shake my head and shrug at this puzzle, which would've been filler material even 25 years ago. I dunno, the ODEON that they somehow haven't condemned and razed to the ground yet, as yesteryear-cool as the dog name FIDO (still never, ever met a FIDO irl). SEAAIR? BAABAA? AAAS? OOH?APEMEN? ATIT? EKE IRENA? This fill is as creaky as. Your typical OTTO-OTOE olde-tymey dance party, this one. I wish there was better news where the fill was concerned, but as you can see for yourself, there is not. Other Hall-of-Famers in the Top Ten of that stat are George Blanda, Fran Tarkenton, Johnny Unitas, Dan Marino, and Peyton Manning (inducted into the HOF just this year). The career leader in interceptions thrown is one Mr. STAR QUARTERBACKs get sacked and throw interceptions All The Time. Except that the clue on STAR QUARTERBACK is very bad, actually. How often does that happen? Anyway, back to the theme? Nope, away from the theme. TARGET HEART RATE is at least interesting and original on its own, though it's also the one that slowed me down the most, as my brain failed to parse it correctly, so much so that until almost the very last cross I was reading it as "TARGET THE something something." So weirdly, I liked best the thing that held me up the most. nearly half the ART FORMS are just the word "ART"!! How is this a thing? And there's not a single "RTA or "ATR." Is the idea that the only "forms" that count are ones that are also words (or, in the case of "TRA," "words")? What a mess. Look at how many of these ART FORMS are just. This is an extremely thin concept, and the resulting themers aren't even terribly interesting. What are we even doing here? Another total non-theme.