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A BAND SAW is the one with the long skinny blade that you can use to cut fancy designs. (Want to know something I’m not good at? Fixing anything!) A BUZZ SAW is that thing I was scared to death of in shop class in seventh grade. Not just a playground implement (of yore, anyway seesaws appear to be a casualty of making playgrounds less lawsuit-inducing), if you split the word into two you get SEE SAWS, because the first portion of each theme entry is a word that works in combination with SAW. Go to the revealer in the center at 39A and you get SEESAWS. Los Angeles Times 11/1/21 by Susan Gelfand Susan Gelfand’s Los Angeles Times crossword - Stella’s write-up Kinda wish we had gotten a sugary clue for GUMMY BEARS instead of going the multivitamins route. GOTHS, GORGONS, CROWs, mentions of “butterfingers” in the clue for 1d… I’m enjoying trying to wring out as much Halloween spirit from this puzzle as I can.On the other hand, for a mass appeal easy puzzle, this might be a lot of sports for people who aren’t into it. On one hand, I like cluing TEE and LOGO in reference to football as a tie-in to the theme.Overall, I felt like I was moving very slowly through the puzzle, but I ended up with an average time – I’m curious about how other people perceived this puzzle’s difficulty. Also, I keep parsing ALL A’S as a misspelling of “alas”. There were also several common words that I felt were made much trickier by their clues – In particular, I was held up on 26d for ASIAN and 42d for BURY. I really like MANHATTAN and WISE GUYS, but KASHI, UMIAK, and SCARP are rough on a Monday. The revealer will help out folks who don’t follow sports, and the theme phrases that Fiona picked out (particularly the first three) are all fun and evocative.
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As an NFL fan, I was able to figure out the theme mid-solve, although knowing the ends of the phrases were teams didn’t stop me from putting in “treasury bonds” over TREASURY BILLS for some reason. 56d – NFLĬongrats to Fiona on her NYT debut! In a fun coincidence, I turned on the Seattle football game immediately before solving this puzzle (and am now only a little annoyed that Fiona didn’t find a way to work in “Seahawks”).New York Times, 11 01 2021, By Fiona Taylor