![]() ![]() ![]() Like Amal Clooney divorcing George and marrying Bryant Gumbel. This one has the added self-referential layer, and That’s. I'm just happy that it's now on my radar screen thanks to a puzzle. Jackie Kennedy + Armand Assante… Ok, I’ll stop.īut, BUT - the meta PORTMANTEAU is brilliant, and I don't care who came up with it. If my husband and I were famous, we could be “Lard” (Loren/Gardiner).īarbara Walters + Anthony Hopkins = BarHop BradyBundch, KimYe, Bennifer, TomKat, Billary. I don’t think this deal of marrying two people’s names to get a word is new (Desilu), but the committee who comes up with these must have a lot of fun. Whatever the case - I couldn’t disagree more. I guess if a joke is widespread enough, it’s a ridiculous thought to try to credit someone, though, right? What’s black and white and read all over? A newspaper (Freeman, 1923). Wonder if it’d be possible to track that down. ![]() Rex – point well taken on giving someone credit for the joke. No issues except singular SCAD (ugh) ( 40D: Whole bunch). Wanted the context to be the stovetop, not the driving range. LYS!?!?! ( 27A: River of France and Belgium) My brain didn't trust that ALDO was right ( 25D: Gucci of fashion), and I could Not figure what kind of "range" was in play at 19D: Things having their home on the range? ( TEES). But on the other side of AND was ATED (?), and *that* area was the *second* roughest part of the grid. Then there was the fact that I kept misreading "PORTMAND." as "PORTMAND AND" (ugh!) and so kept looking for someone's name on the other side of AND. So the overlap of odd phrasing (for symmetry purposes) with bizarro fill made things icky from the jump. DUOMO!? ( 2D: Cathedral of Florence) DEWAR flask!? ( 3D: _ flask (thermos)) Yikes and yikes. That one corner created 80% of my trouble. HOW I (as the phrase opening) is oddly quaint-the joke, in a plausible voice, should just start "I WISH"-and that initial HOW I part runs right through the roughest / strangest part of the grid. the remaking of the joke into a symmetrically divisible joke) made everything a little weird, especially at the beginning. But the rephrasing for crossword purposes (i.e. ![]()
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