There's at least some attempt at cleverness at 27A: They rarely cover more than two feet in one day ( PAIR OF SOCKS). 17A: Great Plains tunneler is *almost* a good misdirection, in that "Great Plains" is a descriptor I'd associate with people, not animals, but what kind of people tunnel on the plains? No kind, I think, is the kind. Result: reliance on good ol' reliable tried and true seen-it-seen-it-seen-it stuff.Īnything happening on the clue front? Not really. Hard to do much that is interesting when your grid is chopped all to hell and you have mostly 3s, 4s, and 5s to work with. may be part of the reason the puzzle plays so dull. I'll give you a full three extra answers for your additional row, that gives you 81. I'd say the most noteworthy thing, besides (but related to) the grid's bigness, is the word count. I'm looking around for something remarkable or noteworthy. AIR is sometimes (properly) hidden / buried, sometimes not. Just lots of little things that add up to a certain joylessness. Fill is not horrendous, but it's once again overly familiar, prone to datedness and arcana, full of SCH ENE ERGS-type stuff. But once you turn up the trick, the puzzle is a slog-a longer-than-average slog, as this grid is 'roided up to 16x15 (likely to accommodate that central themer with the two rebus squares, " UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS", which, at 14 squares long, can't sit squarely in the middle of a standard 15x15 grid). Nice revealer that literally explains what's going on the grid.
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