![]() But no, not verb and verb but verbed A BITE. I had GRABBED and figured that since the familiar phrase is "grab and go" and the clue was "eat and run," the answer would be, what, GRABBED AND WENT (!?!). Didn't get the 2-per-answer dealie with the rebus squares immediately because I had no idea what that first themer was going for, based on its clue. I wanted ARABS, ARABS wouldn't fit, but the surrounding fill meant that ARABS absolutely had to fit. Otherwise, this puzzle is thematically clever but a bit tiresome to work through. If the rebus squares are, in fact, musically playable, and especially if what they play is the theme from "Jaws," which opened 47 years ago this past week, well then, this puzzle is genius. So it's an extremely one-note puzzle, despite having 8 x "AB" = sixteen (musical) notes. *Except* the revealer, which, as I say, really truly works and is cute. I didn't get the worst, but I didn't get much of anything good, either. wow, what was my point? Oh, EN-LAI had me fearing the worst. Maybe it's "retro." Can ASTA come back and play now? Anyway, my point. ![]() So is it even crosswordese anymore? If crosswordese has been pretty well buried in the past, maybe it's not stale any more. But though the actual NYALA is not endangered, crossword NYALAs have all but gone extinct. I remember ORIBI very, very well from one of my first write-ups. The only reason I know most antelopes is from crosswords. ![]() I (eventually) remembered NYALA from my various expeditions into the wilds of. And what do you call stuff that *used* to be crosswordese but that you almost never see anymore? Asking for a friend. EDAM AVAST NENE NOTA ATON ALOE SYSCO ERIN HUTT (another name part), ENLAI felt not like a necessary compromise, but like a bad omen of what the overall fill quality was going to be like. But in this grid, with so much other overfamiliar short stuff (e.g. Anyway, either one of that guy's name parts are potential red flags, warnings of "rough fill ahead." Neither name part is inherently bad, and if your overall puzzle were killer, you wouldn't blink at a stray CHOU or ENLAI. You used to see CHOU (or ZHOU) a lot more too. As with the Monday puzzle, I felt my confidence flag very quickly after I ran into a lot of short fill that felt very yesteryear, most notably the name partial ENLAI, which used to appear all the time in grids, back when people didn't have software to help them and also didn't have to try as hard for clean grids because competition wasn't nearly as fierce as it is today. mine)īig gap here between quality of theme idea (great!) and quality of overall puzzle (less great). The principal threats to the species are poaching and habitat loss resulting from human settlement. Its population is stable and it has been listed as of Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It has been introduced to Botswana and Namibia, and reintroduced to Eswatini, where it had been extinct since the 1950s. The nyala's range includes Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It exhibits the highest sexual dimorphism among the spiral-horned antelopes. Only males have horns, 60–83 cm (24–33 in) long and yellow-tipped. Females and young males have ten or more white stripes on their sides. The coat is maroon or rufous brown in females and juveniles, but grows a dark brown or slate grey, often tinged with blue, in adult males. It was first described in 1849 by George French Angas. It is a species of the family Bovidae and genus Nyala, also considered to be in the genus Tragelaphus. The lowland nyala or simply nyala ( Tragelaphus angasii ), is a spiral-horned antelope native to southern Africa (not to be confused with the endangered Mountain nyala living in the Bale region of Ethiopia). Word of the Day: NYALA ( 39D: Spiral-horned antelope). ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN (37A: Legendary Himalayan humanoid).or a hint to eight squares in this puzzle) - letter sequence "AB" gets "crunched" into one square, eight times (four theme answers, two "AB" squares apiece):
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