Babe Who Never Lied - Crossword Clue

That's one shy of his Sunday golden jubilee, and it puts him in fine company. They also were dis- or de- adjectives (alternating) that have meanings unrelated to the profession, creating good wordplay. The good news was that with seven theme entries I was able to have a lower word count (134) for this puzzle.

Here are some of the other possibilities that didn't make the cut: DEPARTED ACTOR, DEPRESSED DRY CLEANER, DEBUNKED CAMP COUNSELOR, DETESTED EXAMINER, DEBRIEFED LAWYER, DECOMPOSED SONG WRITER, DEFROCKED DRESSMAKER, DEPOSED MODEL, DISCHARGED SHOPPER, DISCOUNTED CENSUS TAKER, DISSOLVED PUZZLER, DISBARRED BALLERINA, DISCONCERTED MUSICIAN, DISINTERESTED BANKER. In making this pitch, I'm pledging that the blog will continue to be here for you to read / enjoy / grimace at for at least another calendar year, with a new post up by 9:00am (usually by 12:01am) every day, as usual. Crossword clue babe who never lied. I chose the seven in this puzzle because they each had adjectives that had to do with being fired or quitting. 54 Matthews St. Binghamton NY 13905. Or my favorite, at 100A, the "Unemployed rancher, " or DERANGED CATTLEMAN, which made me think so much of this old song, for some reason.

Try 83A, the "Unemployed loan officer" — aptly, a DISTRUSTED BANKER. Minor: somehow INTERIOR DESIGNER does not seem repurposed enough; that is, we're still talking about designers, and what with Vera WANG getting into home furnishings (maybe she's been there a long time already; I wouldn't know), somehow the distance between the revealer phrase and the concept of a fashion designer isn't stark enough to make the reveal really snap. Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld. 103D: One of those occasional bits of chivalry regalia that pops up in the puzzle, an ARMET is a helmet that completely enclosed one's head while being light enough to actually wear, which was state of the art once. Babe who never lied. Today was a day when my mental repository of names came up short, so I struggled with BEAMON, CULP, THIEU and a couple of others; I did appreciate solving BABE and then getting THE BAMBINO, and I'll take any reference to LASSIE that I can get, the cleverer the better. Subscribers can take a peek at the answer key. Follow Rex Parker on Twitter and Facebook]. INTERIOR DESIGNER, and it can't have been easy to embed that many *well-known* designers names inside two-word phrases.

Hint: you would not). Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium (normal Tuesday time, but it's 16 wide, so... must've been easier than normal, by a bit). I remember a few, including a great nautical puzzle, and I think of Mr. Ross as a very elegant and intricate constructor — today's grid has two theme spans and a lot of very bright fill that made it a fun solve. And here: I'll stick a PayPal button in here for the mobile users. I'm sure there are many more. Moving from interior design to fashion design... just doesn't have pop. "Scalp" specifically implies massive mark-up. Babe who never lied - crossword clue. There's also the obscurity / strangeness RADIO RANGE (which I would've thought meant how far a radio signal reaches) and the utter green paint* of ANKLE INJURY. 16D: I was absolutely taken in by this clue — read right over Feburary, which is next month MISSPELLED. From the LO FAT TAE BO of the NORTE to the KOI of the IONIAN ISLA in the south. The timing of this puzzle, vis-à-vis the government shutdown, is an unfortunate coincidence; our lineup is scheduled and set so far in advance that this kind of juxtaposition can happen, and I hope that nobody is dismayed. And those aren't even the nadir. 69D: Last seen in 1985 and another addition to the seafaring word bank we go to now and then, a BRIGANTINE has two masts, yes, but apparently only one is square-rigged.

Ernie ELS (10D: 1994 P. G. A. As I have said in years past, I know that some people are opposed to paying for what they can get for free, and still others really don't have money to spare. 24D: Perhaps this entry defines itself, as it's a debut today, RARE GEM. They each define a person with a particular career, who has been removed from that particular career; their specific state of unemployment can be expressed as a pun. Lastly, [Scalp] does not equal RESELL. Green paint (n. )— in crosswords, a two-word phrase that one can imagine using in conversation, but that is too arbitrary to stand on its own as a crossword answer (e. g. SOFT SWEATER, NICE CURTAINS, CHILI STAIN, etc. 72A: I was briefly flummoxed by the clue here and looked for a question like "Where were you, " that would have been in response, or something like "Am I late? " EYE INJURYs are real, but would you really buy EYE INJURY in your puzzle?

Alex Rodriguez aka A-ROD (69A: Youngest player ever to hit 500 home runs, familiarly). This is to say that the revealer doesn't have the snappy wow factor that comes when we are forced to really reconceive what a phrase means, to think of it in a completely different way. And can we please, please, in the name of all that is holy, retire TAE BO. Just the singular, personal voice of someone talking passionately about a topic he loves. I figured it was O. K. because I have had more than a few batteries die on me.