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CREAKS SQUEAKS AND SHRIEKS CROSSWORD SERIES

All of these excuses are to try and explain why it took me nearly an hour to finish this puzzle! I had my wife helping me, had the dictionary open, you name it. It has been a busy week, and I just learned that it’s going to be crazy busy for the next two months as my job is undergoing a major procedural change. Greg Johnson’s Newsday crossword, “Saturday Stumper” – Derek’s write-up That is all for now! Enjoy this song that will now be stuck in your head for the rest of the day! This puzzle does NOT contain my all-time pet peeve: difficult Roman numeral math! And there are two of these in this puzzle (See 35A). I am not a fan of these types of clues, because it disrupts the flow when you have to go hunting in the clue list or the grid.

26D SEVEN HILLS – 8D is ROME. There are a couple of these tie-ins in this puzzle.

Some don’t like the 30D answer, because no one ever says that, but it is gettable and has tons of great letters, so it isn’t going away!

24D & 30D CAGER & NBA’ER– I liked this tie-in quite well.

13D SADE – This is from my music heyday.

46A GOING OFF THE GRID – Similar to 20A, just hard enough.

When I was on Sports Jeopardy! this was one of the categories, and I loved it!

44A FUEGO – Also a catch phrase by Dan Patrick on Sportscenter many moons ago.This sports year is going to go down in history as a fiasco.

CREAKS SQUEAKS AND SHRIEKS CROSSWORD SERIES

40A RON SANTO – A Cubs reference! This weekend the Cubs-Cardinal series is cancelled due to COVID-19 issues.I had to look it up! I must be the only person in crosswords that knows nothing about any of these books or movies! 32A GINNY – This is a Harry Potter reference.20A MOVING THE NEEDLE – This is clued just hard enough to make you think, but not too tough.I don’t know art very well at all, even crossword-y names like this. 14A RENI – This is slightly difficult.My good buddy Peter Collins has today’s LAT themeless challenger! I found this a tad tougher than normal Saturday LAT puzzles, but I think my brain is broken this week. Collins’s LA Times crossword – Derek’s write-up Did I really not know that STYX was a goddess rather than a god? I must have known that when we read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology in 9th grade. Excellent clue for the less common noun sense of EMPTY. Interesting trivia! Did … did they find that out the hard way when using it as a dye? Here’s an article about her from the Harvard Magazine. There is absolutely no woeful fill in this grid. We’ve got the “ MODEL MINORITY” trope, a POT DISPENSARY (not sure if the clue is accurate- ? Do they sell rolled cigarettes, or just a bag of loose herb?), a PAY TOILET, BEER RUNS, quaint HUMDINGER, SOFT-PEDAL, CATDOG, and PARTY-HOPS.

was a gimme for me-a TAMPA friend of mine is a teacher for the Hillsborough public schools, and that is the only reason I knew this. What a fun and fresh themeless! It played like a rather breezy Friday puzzle for me.