Sea Eagles Crossword Clue 5 Letters
Sea Eagles Crossword Clue 5 Letters – Feudal laborer / DHU 7-19-12 / The Cavaliers’ sch. / Dior design of the 1950s / Zeno’s house / Thor Heyerdahl craft
THEME: OK, I call it word structuring in cryptic style; ARETE can be explained as RET IN[side] AE, thus creating RETINAE, etc.
Sea Eagles Crossword Clue 5 Letters
Hey there! I’m Andrew, a long time reader, first time contributor. And I get a Thursday puzzle on my hands, no less. Thursdays have been very variable for me this year, time-wise, and after about a month of pretty quick Thursday fixes, this one was pretty challenging for me. Rather than being challenging in a fun way, it was more of a struggle to get through. The theme is imaginative enough, but when we start with clunkers like ARETE and ALEFS, and our end results include MINTIER and COINSURING and REINSPECTSzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… the grid was helplessly devoid of any sparkle, overloaded with 1-point Scrabble letters. And then there’s ESNE, which we’ll get to later.
Rex Parker Does The Nyt Crossword Puzzle: New York College Named After A Franciscan Friar / Sat 3 20 21 / Flour In Indian Cuisine / Oper Famed German Concert Hall
So, credit to mr. Arbesfeld that he managed to get eight themes into the grid. What bothers me is the general softness of the fill, especially in the northeast section of the grid. You only have two themes there in the game — LINEAGE and TINPLATE, surely with nice crossword puzzles in them to work with. FILMNOIR is good, probably the best entry in the grid, but ENDUE intersection of the odd part SEE ‘EM [14-D: “Now you ___…” (wizard’s comment about disappearing cards)] is a nice week; THAT’S TRUE is nice [16-A: “No fooling!”], but major points detracted from crossing THAT with THAT I [9-D: “What did ___ say?”], though at least I IT does not know if the oft-used biblical “Lord, is ___?” context.
And then there’s good ‘ol ESNE [10-D: Feudal laborer]. I really thought ESNE was retired by someone not associated with the USA Today puzzle. It’s stuffy, smelly, musty crossword puzzles that should have died with Gene Maleska. I’m writing my fifth crossword puzzle book, and I can tell you that I will never, *never** use ESNE in a puzzle. Even if I do a book about feudal laborers, ESNE won’t cut the spectacle. I’ll admit, if I have a stack that has JAZZFUSION on top of QUIZMASTER on top of PEPPERJACK that has ESNE holding it together, I might be tempted. But in this corner, with these letters? Really no excuse for that.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t use Rex’s podium to plug my own work into AriesPuzzles.com. Every Tuesday I host a Rows Garden variety of crossword puzzles there for free. For those unfamiliar with Rows Gardens, it’s a variety format originally conceived by the great Patrick Berry, who also posted some Rows Gardens (and other crosswords) on his website, A-Frame Games . I like to describe them as a themeless crossword puzzle on steroids, and I hope you check out the site. I can say that next week’s puzzle, which will be the 85th such puzzle I’ve posted, is one of the top five favorites I’ve written. So be sure to stop by the site next Tuesday and check it out.
As I mentioned earlier, I’m working on book number five, “Crosswords for the Birds,” and the previous four I’ve written are centered around American states: Minnesota Crosswords was my first, in 2009, followed by Michigan Crosswords. and Wisconsin Crosswords. My fourth book, Texas Crosswords, is expected to be released on October 1, 2012. I can tell the quality of the books has improved throughout the series, and I’m really excited for the Texas book to come out because I’m really happy with how it’s turning out. The books make great gifts and are on a Monday-Wednesday difficulty, so they’re also accessible to all solvers. Theme clues each have an intentional “typo” in that the lowercase “RN” is written as a lowercase “M”. An example of such a “typo” is STEM/stem which comes from STERN/stern:
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The acronym “EGOT” stands for “Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony”, and is a reference to artists who have won all four awards. Also known as the “Showbiz Award Grand Slam”, there are relatively few individuals who have been so honored. The first five to do so were:
The tailless primates known as apes (also “hominoids”) are divided into two main branches: gibbons (lesser apes) and hominids (great apes). The hominids are the great apes, and belong to the family of primates called Hominidae. Extant genera that make up the family Hominidae are:
When RKO released the 1933 movie “King Kong,” the promotional material listed the ape’s height as 50 feet. During filming, a bust was created for a 40-foot monkey, as well as a full-sized hand to go with a 70-foot Kong.
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17 Homer’s smug claim? : WHAT A GOOD BOY I AM (“Horner” from “Homer”) Little Jack Horner was sitting in the corner eating a Christmas pie; He stuck his thumb in, and pulled out a plum, And said, ‘What a good boy I am! 19 Aurora’s counterpart: EOS
Aurora was the Roman goddess of the dawn, and was equivalent to the Greek goddess Eos. According to myth, Aurora renewed herself every morning and then flew across the sky to herald the rising of the sun.
“AIG” is an initialism used by the American International Group, a giant insurance corporation. After repeated bailouts by US taxpayers beginning in 2008, the company made some serious PR blunders by spending large sums of money on executive entertainment and middle management rewards. These included a $444,000 California retreat, an $86,000 hunting trip in England and a $343,000 getaway to a luxury resort in Phoenix. Poor judgement, I would say…
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Robert Burns is a cultural icon in Scotland and for Scots around the world. As a poet, Burns was a pioneer in the Romantic movement in the second half of the 18th century. One of his most famous works is the poem “Auld Lang Syne”, set to the tune of a traditional Scottish folk song and used to celebrate the New Year in the English-speaking world.
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for the sport of tennis in the United States. The USTA was founded in 1881 as the United States’ National Lawn Tennis Association.
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Eagles Nest Crossword Clue 5 Letters
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56 Thorough … or a hint for parsing some lowercase letters in four of this puzzle’s clues: FROM TRUNK TO STERN
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The most famous D-Day in history was June 6, 1944, the date of the Normandy landings in World War II. The term “D-Day” is used by the military to denote the day on which a combat operation is to be launched, especially when the actual date has yet to be determined. What D stands for seems to have