![]() I'm sure the clue is technically right, on some level, but putting in ROOM and then having to pull it for something worse in a puzzle that was already short on joy. I think of a TEA SHOP as a place where you buy the tea that you then make at home yourself. The most annoying thing about the puzzle was all the ambiguity, especially around two-part answers, like _ GAME, _ NAME, END _, and especially TEA _, which half the solving world will have written in as ROOM, since that is the much much much more likely term for the place where you actually have a "spot" of tea. ![]() You have GOES ALL IN in your puzzle and yet you refuse to "go all in" with the CLEAVAGE clue. We know what you were thinking breasts, why not just clue it that way? It's fine. What is with the prudish clue on CLEAVAGE? ( 6A: Sharp divide). KONA COAST and EGGBEATER are fine, as is HANGER-ON, but not much else here is worth the price of admission. Me again: "We've been over this." And then the puzzle pulls the identical clue gimmick *again* with STALE / HUMID? It all feels like distraction from the fact that there are no marquee answers in this thing besides Justice Jackson. Puzzle: "How fast does a _ have to run before it looks gray?" Me: ". In all other parts of the grid, I was either COOLLY filling in boxes or else grimacing at yet another cutesy clue. Good answer, great clue-nice misdirection there with "shortening" (which here refers to the "shortening," i.e. ![]() The only thing besides her name that took the needle into "happy" territory today was the clue on MAC 'N' CHEESE (26D: Comfort food with shortening?). She deserves better than this, is what I'm saying. If you are going to pay tribute to this "history-making SCOTUS appointee," you should either build an actual theme around her, or else drop her into the middle of an absolutely Fire grid. The average New Yorker puzzle absolutely torches this puzzle at the level of overall grid quality. I do not understand why this puzzle was accepted beyond the very cool Supreme Court Justice name arrangement. ![]() Wonderful to see that KETANJI / BROWN / JACKSON stack in the middle of the puzzle today, but a lot less wonderful to see almost everything else in this grid. ![]()
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