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Thought it would be a good idea to solve on paper, since I heard we were in for a Wrath of Klahn. Not so much! I had lots of guessing and erasing in the SW corner, which took up half my time: several tries at [Sink]; SIMILE for CLICHE; WRECK for CRATE; AMARETTO for TIA MARIA (which doesn't make sense); EDNA for EDIE; RIOT for ROAR... Managed to retrieve ODALISQUE, but should have gotten the relatively straightforward ROMANTIC and SCORCHER much sooner; EL DORADO finally broke the logjam. This would have been a perfect puzzle to practice on a big dry-erase board! Maybe I can borrow Thomas Snyder's.
Was away and puzzle-free this weekend, just came back in time to solve the wrath of Klahn tonight.
ReplyDeleteI ran into most of the same traps as you (avoiding the WRECK but running into several others), but did not know ODALISQUE and had a hell of a time with a slew of other clues. The puzzle gave in eventually, but that was a worthy Saturday, wasn't it?