So then I had _R_ for the Swedish Chef phrase, and thought it might be 'poRK!' I never watched The Muppet Show, only the Sesame Street muppets, and I quit that before either ELMO or the Swedish Chef made an appearance. Yeah, I just put in ANCHOR, since LEG was so obviously wrong that I had to assume sexism on the part of the puzzle, and was going to avoid "man" until I was forced to it by crosses. Congratulations, and thank you for the fun!
I was impressed with how you stuck with this puzzle, Ian, even when finding a last theme answer was très elusive, and when so many grid designs weren’t working (all this according to your notes). The cross of OAHU and SUGAR prompted me to do a bit of research on the Hawaii sugar business, which was once huge, but it turns that after a magnificent century of production, things declined, and the state’s last working sugar mill produced its final shipment in 2016. I also liked the southeast corner short story of KEG, CIG, I FEEL SICK, MESS, YEOW. I liked the mini-theme of double E’s (6), the navy sub-theme of AYE, USN, MESS, and ANCHOR. Props to Ian for that, as well as for the NYT debut. When Jeff can’t come up with a quality theme answer in addition to those in the grid, trust me, the theme is tight. This point:įirst of all, this was a fun solve for me, trying to figure out the last two theme answers after filling in the first two and seeing what was going on.Īs Jeff Chen points out, the theme is tight. Things did not bode well for the rest of the grid at that point. So the start of this puzzle was ragged and weird and oddly hard I hit SITU, after already laying down BAA USN OAHU ASHE EDY. Plus plus, the fill is just bad right up front. You know, "The Muppet Show" actually hasn't been on in forever, and that is an astonishingly deep cut for a Monday. "BORK," specifically-totally unknown to me. I just remember the Swedish Chef said Swedish-ish gibberish. Then there was BORK, which obviously was designed to be a ghoulish failed right-wing Supreme Court nominee, but then someone thought better and shifted it Swedish Chef-ward. I had ANCHOR and thought "well surely that can't be LEG in those last three letters." But it was. The "last runner" *runs* the ANCHOR LEG, she is not, herself, the leg. I have no idea, literally none, zero, what the hell is up with that clue. Per olympics dot com ( seriously), "the last runner in a relay is called the 'anchor'." That person, a human being, is not called a "leg." A "leg" is a segment of a race.
ANCHOR LEG was clued as a person (?) instead of a segment of a race? ( 17A: Last runner in a relay).
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