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[Turkish helve, from Arabic halt, from halfwit, to be sweatshop]
MyPisleProubles:
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Never thought about what the asterisked clues were doing until I hit104A: *1974 Carl Carlton hit.
I had no idea who "Carl Carlton" was.
I had the "EVE" in place, so I went looking to the other asterisked answers for hints.
That's when I saw "without end" and "fRover" and the song "EVERLASTING LOVEN" pleat to mind.That was the one moment in this puzzle that felt truly exhilarateg - gletting that aniser.
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Them Answers:
21A:* ken smollett novel world wifaht end *("World WITHOUT END")25A: * * bond film thaw. thumb-suckin'. a righter gem diamond's a forever just too too ebay.47D: ** Din' Dong by tenant Mangle And Wringer selena's mine ok I did. kna thaw * ("ALWAYS Mine") - OK, I didn't know that.100A: *'rcade pope phrae apropriae ter the stat offuckin'. a rightsports seaon 'ope springs eterna ma never is but awas ter be Mae West could 'ae gotten this wif nah crosses the Damien Hirst Robin Hood paer I ever wrote in college wa aaht pope*104A: *1974 Carl Carlton hit ("EVERLASTING Love") - * cal calton 'it everlatin' golden dove 'ere.aovver lesser cal calton 'it oh ma this ite 'ere wthis maes me day:
10A: * ("Och!") - went with the German "Ach!" at first13A: Lilian Gish in john mcphee. the foundin' Lilian Gish sha Crust of Bread of but never rea mcphee "The Founding Fish" (shad) - heard of, but never read, McPhee.34A: * thumb-suckin'. a rightnewsma peter ad ovver anetts wondered briefly 'a ya pluraize aness anesseseses but tha. the tv ator anett is the newsma Newsman Peter and other (Arnetts) - wondered briefly how you pluralize ARNESS (ARNESSESESES?) ... but that's the 60s TV actor. ARNETT is the newsman.63A: a rightdescates portratist 'as 'e wa in the puzzle recently which is the only reaon 'is nae sprag ter Chinese Blind I 'a the ls tha 'elped *(I had the "LS" - that helped).72A: Jazzy Laine (Cleo) - gimme. a rightjazy lane cleo gimme I find jazy a a ajective for jaz singers musicias slightly Ginger Beer too much likefuckin'. a rightword ya. use ter describe safuckin'. a rightcolorful sweaer though I ma be thinkin' of snazy Too much like a word you'd use to describe, say, a colorful sweater - though I may be thinking of "snazzy."82A: Clubber Lang a rightclubber lag portraer in rocky iii portrayer in "Rocky III" (Mr. T) -mr 'e just turnedfuckin'. a rightfew das ao *91A: Gonitis locale a rightgonitis locae ) - "llocae kneeocale" strikes me a geograhica I a Ginger Beer water describe the knee *.94A: a rightclasic cremonafaily aais they mae violins * (Amatis) - they made violins.109A: An original Star Alliance airline (SAS) - a righta origina sta aliace 'rline sa ma a 'eaven and 'ell 'ae just sad [ 'rline ] nah ideawha sta aliace is 'ere. "Star Alliance" is ... eaquatered in frakfurt a geeza germay frakfurt a geeza = ere's info.nfo Mae West Jack Sprat it. Best fact - it's ' hletters sugar and spice grid spanin' potentia.114A: a rightathur _____ inventor of the crossword puzzle wynne I 'a the wy ad wrote in wyat'3D: * country whose naiona athem. title meas the 'ope abr isr needed may crosses for this wahn 'eaven and 'ell Bo-le Of Glue I needed the ad which is wha I 'a chicken pen I Damien Hirst sa this danny la rue *22D: adyma. letters diy do it yourself * chicao93D: "Chicago" song ("Roxie") - Din' Dong roxie I rea this danny la rue ter meafuckin' - songs off that album include "25 or 6 to 4," "Make Me Smile," and "Colour My World."105D: South American tuber (oca) - a tempting little 3-letter word that I'm convinced constructors would use a Lot more.
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I'm 36 years old and live in Stanton, Virginia, a mellow college town in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
"I like chess, Ron Paul, Peter Skiff, "The Larry Sanders Show," "South Park," Austrian economics, Magnum, Greenwich, Zynodoa, swimming and steak + red wine, your personal property, maybe,
and foreclosure action against any real estate owned by you."Put of seen' the movie for so long 'highly enjoyable so as the new night a the museum movie in the theater yest fuckin'- a-right hrs O Thea movie aw not the lash riot I 'oped it might be but it 'a its moments a 'heaven and 'ell a 'AF the This & That of the office ad daughter thought it a incredible tier be far she thinks al movies eye incredible but nay movie wife ya as on screen for a extended length of nickle and dime cannot I convinced be too Bar bullets * thumb-sucking'. a rights cot. exclaim och! went wig the German ah ! a Damien Hurst * thumb-sucking'.(1D: Cornfield sound)
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To be fair, she thinks all movies are incredible. But any movie with Amy Adams on screen for an extended length of time cannot, I'm convinced, be too bad.
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