Today's crossword

Jul 15, 2022

Today's crossword was cute! Once again, I had fun with the Friday puzzle while Thursday's (yesterday) was a total joyless slog.

Clues that delighted:

• 12A Relatively new addition to Thanksgiving?: INLAW
• 22A Funny business: COMEDY
• 23A They're put in quotes: PRICES
• 27A Stick in one's mouth: TOOTHPICK
• 33A Drink with an onomatopoeic name: SLURPEE (just made me think of that sluuuuurrrrppppp sound you get when the drink is running out)
• 36A Their customers lie for them: MASSEUSES
• 51A Warped fabric, it's said: SPACETIME
• 5D Neck lines: FRETS
• 23D English four-wheeler: PRAM
• 42D Fencing needs: POSTS (really misdirects everyone who does the crossword often, since I immediately plopped in EPEES feeling all confident)
• 46D Is short: OWES

Answers that delighted:

• 8D YOUR OTHER RIGHT: "No, the opposite" (of course, since it's a marquee answer! if the marquee answer doesn't delight, there's something wrong... which also sadly happens in this puzzle with the other marquee answer)
• 10A MOOED: Responded to a cattle call (the word MOO is just so whimsical)
• 37A SLUICE: Streaming channel? (just like with SLURPEE, there's just something so vivid and satisfyingly wet-sounding with this word)
• 39D ECLAIRS: Desserts once known as petites duchesses (I like learning these little factoids from the puzzle)
• 43D UNPIN: Remove from the top of one's profile, as a tweet (seemed a little modern knowledge to me, in a good way... either that, or I'm truly old)

And finally, SLEW (50D: Host) crossing with SLAW (58A: Side dish that's uncooked) was quite CUTE (22D: Aww-inspiring).

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