![]() ![]() It's a good clue, and it slowed me down bad. You'd think that would provide enough traction to get the long Acrosses, but somehow MOTH was the answer that unlocked 2 of those 3 Acrosses, and MOTH was hard as hell to get ( 5D: One who's light-headed?). ![]() NW was tough going at first, with only NSA and KHAN and AVIA and ERG being easily gettable. on a Friday, the tricksy impulse here seemed largely under control. The cluing seemed to be trying very hard to be tricksy or hard, and while that can get annoying, esp. OK, sorry, anyway, the non-Macklemore portions of this grid were pretty good, I think. Liberal piety doesn't make you good at rapping! So many great gay anthems out there, but we get Macklemore. True, " SAME LOVE" is a song in support of gay marriage, so if you had to pick any way to remind me that Macklemore exists, this would be the way, but still, pass (for those lucky enough not to know: Macklemore is the white rapper whose album "The Heist" (in)famously won the Best Rap Album Grammy over Kendrick Lamar's debut, " good kid, m.A.A.d. Well, this puzzle made me remember Macklemore, so that's one big strike against it. If it's also given you someone to shout at in disagreement, that's OK too. I hope it has enhanced your solving pleasure, giving you something to look forward to even (especially?) when the puzzle lets you down, and someone to celebrate with when the puzzle is wonderful. OK now I'm just channeling Jim McKay from the '70s-era introduction to "Wide World of Sports," but I do hope this blog has provided some insight, some entertainment, some commiseration, some solace, some sense of regularity during what are obviously pretty tumultuous and often lonely times. The standard US crossword grid is 15x15, and now Rex Parker is also 15! Rex Parker, spanning the grid to give you the constant variety of crossword commentary: the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat (dum dum dum DUM!) The human drama of. 15 is also a pretty important crossword-related anniversary-maybe the only important crossword-related anniversary. ![]() (wikipedia)Ģ021 was an important year for me, as my blog (this blog, the one you are reading right now) turned 15 years old!. In addition, it allows certain types of oolong teas to be aged for decades if they are cared for by being occasionally roasted. Rolling renders the leaves less susceptible to physical damage and breakage and allows them to retain more of their flavor and aroma. Although the individual leaves were formerly rolled by hand, today all but the highest grade gunpowder teas are rolled by machines. Gunpowder tea leaves are withered, steamed, rolled, and then dried. It was first introduced to Taiwan in the nineteenth century. Gunpowder tea production dates back to the Tang Dynasty 618–907. This rolling method of shaping tea is most often applied either to dried green tea (the most commonly encountered variety outside China) or oolong tea. ![]() Its English name comes from its resemblance to grains of gunpowder. Gunpowder tea ( Chinese: 珠 茶 pinyin: zhū chá lit. 'pearl tea' pronounced ) is a form of tea in which each leaf has been rolled into a small round pellet. Word of the Day: gunpowder tea ( 14A: Where to try out some gunpowder? = TEA TASTING). ![]()
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