These generally involve the sanctimonious pointing out of the obvious. 26D: Ad Council output, for short ( PSA) - Public Service Announcement.It's not uncommon in crosswords because of it convenient / unusual "II" ending combined with other, common letters. 25D: Negotiations of 1977-79 ( SALT II) - another answer (again, like ACHESON, from American history) that just wasn't there.Got it off the "-AR-," mostly because KASPAROV is one of the quite small number of chess players I can name, and he fit. 23A: Deep Blue's opponent in chess ( KASPAROV) - one name that did not confound me.Then I switched to English because my French, even after 7 years, just sucked. I studied French POEMs at a southern California college, once upon a time. 45A: It's never finished, only abandoned, per Paul Valéry ( POEM) - notice: not A POEM.Probably didn't need him, since I got BEEP BEEP pretty easily and could work out all the Downs in that section from there, but it was nice to know my brain has mysterious hidden powers that occasionally turn on.
Had the -SON and thought, "ugh, bygone Secretaries of State." But then the God of Crosswords Gone By smote me upside the head, and ACHESON came to me as if out of nowhere. I also didn't know ACHESON ( 56A: Secretary of State between Marshall and Dulles). I knew they had the same name as a famous woman, but I went with violinist Hilary HAHN over soccer star Mia HAMM. At first I thought the HAMMS ( 13D: Twin gymnasts Paul and Morgan) were the HAHNS.
Even REGIFTS made me happy-that's a nice clue: 21A: Acts frugally around the holidays, say. Also wonderful that there are so many interesting longer answers: STRIP MINES, THIS END UP, FALSE GODS. Finally figured out STRIP MINES and then (for once!) knowing the theme helped me get POOHx2 and the NW went out like a lamb.ĮEXXCCUUSSEESS across the middle is really incredible, especially considering all the crosses work so well, and two of them are quite long. SNOB became SNOOT and then in went ALOOF and I was off. Out of frustration, I just went with BASH ( 10A: Blowout) (could've been, I don't know, FETE or GALA or something) and then tried SNOB and then got ULNA and somewhere in here I figured out how could be " ZOOM ZOOM," which I'd wanted from the moment I first read the clue. Ran into the theme the way a pedestrian smart-phone user might run into street sign or telephone pole or other human being. SWAMP MINES? Had to abandon it and wander off. S-PMINES meant nothing to me at first ( 17A: Eco-unfriendly coal sources). Solved stuff to the east and south of it, but couldn't do anything with that tiny little corner. The "something's going on and I don't know what it is, dammit" feeling. At the outset, I had that creepy feeling you sometimes get when you're able to solve chunks of the grid but completely unable to make sense of others. There are very few things about this puzzle that I did not like. Since 1925, the Claremont Colleges, which have grown to include five undergraduate and two graduate institutions, have provided Pomona's student body with the resources of a larger university while preserving the closeness of a small college. In order to reach this goal, the board of trustees included graduates of Williams, Dartmouth, Colby and Yale. Its founders strove to create "a college of the New England type". The founding member of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona is a non-sectarian, coeducational school. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California by a group of Congregationalists, the college moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a hotel, retaining its name. Pomona College is a private, residential, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. Word of the Day: POMONA College ( 46A: Southern California college). These double-letters work for all the Down crosses. Instead of being written out completely, the phrase doubles up on itself, such that each square contains pairs of every letter in the repeated word. THEME: Double Double - Five answers are phrases wherein a word is doubled (e.g.
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