just why? REECHO?! Bad enough on its own, but when you've already got REHASH and RECOILS in the grid, bah. OK, I guess that's a thing." I just keep looking at this grid and seeing things like RETNECBA ( 30D) and wondering. Even SEAT ANGLE, which is at least original, is like "eh. There is no air in this puzzle, let alone a bright spot. JK Rowling is the world's most popular "don't call me transphobic" transphobe, so sure, why not a double dose of her work to brighten up the day ( HERMIONE, that HOGW(ARTS HOUSE) baloney)? Televangelist (and prosperity gospel huckster) Joel OSTEEN? More yuck ( 40A: Televangelist Joel). And I get that Will was on "How I Met Your Mother" once so maybe keeping the memory of that show alive is important to him, but BROCODE? As fill? Barf ( 99D: Set of rules popularized by "How I Met Your Mother"). It's all so broken and pointless and, again, the word of the day: disappointing.ĬRYER *and* CRIER? Abutting one another? Come on. How is any of this fun? And it's weirdly extra-wide!?!?! (22 instead of 21). You know every themer is going to end in ASH.
The title is "Go Up In Smoke"-I expect the part that "goes up" to have something to do with "smoke." Rising from the ASHes is not sufficient. Plus, all those unclued ASH-ending Acrosses. When you have to go slow for gibberish, wow, that is not an optimal solving experience. So much gibberish that the solve actually went slow. Again, I cannot tell you how disappointed I was when the "Up in Smoke" part of UNLE(ADED) spelled *nothing*! After the first answer gave me ARSON going up, I thought "interesting." Then the next answer gave me. Also, *in the same theme answer* your unclued answer (the one that contains ASH) is somehow *also* a "late-night TV" host, just like JOHNNY C(ARSON)!?!?!?! OK, maybe JOHNNY CASH's show didn't technically air in "late-night," but he definitely hosted a night-time show for two seasons. When I realized that, this puzzle was Over for me. then somehow that's just *coincidence*!?! ARSON, which involves burning, which involves smoke. How in the world do you manage to have your first "up in smoke" bit be ARSON (!?) and then. Conceptually weak, and muddled in the execution. Five authorised sequels were written in the 1970s by the celebrated mystery writing team of Boileau-Narcejac. The character has also appeared in a number of books from other writers as well as numerous film, television, stage play, as well as comic book adaptations. Lupin was featured in 17 novels and 39 novellas by Leblanc, with the novellas or short stories collected into book form for a total of 24 books. The number becomes 25 if the 1923 novel The Secret Tomb is counted: Lupin does not appear in it, but the main character Dorothée solves one of Arsène Lupin's four fabulous secrets. The first story, "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin", was published on 15 July 1905.
The character was first introduced in a series of short stories serialised in the magazine Je sais tout. He was originally called Arsène Lopin, until a local politician of the same name protested.
Word of the Day: ARSÈNE Lupin ( 54D: Detective Lupin) -Īrsène Lupin ( French pronunciation: ) is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc.