ENG enders is not ING enders....not a good entry
P,Q,R,S,T... is PETAL?? Please explain.
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Pls explain 53A -DOOR is start to die?
Do or die.
Great puzzle from Mr. Ries! I agree that the clue for ARNESS didn't quite land, but otherwise very well done.
"ENG ENDER" is one of the more clever puns I've seen in a while. Didn't get it until looking at the comments here.
Other highlights for me: SEXISTS, SCOPES, EXIT, TESTATE, CHOP SHOP, MERGER, MADCAP
I really wish they would do Puns and AnagrMs more often. It takes me a minute to get started but it’s an enjoyable challenge
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32D: I got the answer from "50 outer parts" so I'm not clear what the first part of the clue does.
Roman numeral L = 50
Right. I got how L outer parts=LEDGES. As I said, I don't see what the first half of the clue accomplished.
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@David I think he meant, why is “Outer parts” in there twice?
That does seem strange.
liked it a lot -- good variety of puns, anagrams and linguistic jokes. thought of Gustav Mahler first before Gustav Holst. I like Jupiter best of his The Planets!
also liked the Patrick Berry puzzle although it was a very fast solve.
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“Finish First” was a new and different “middle”puzzle.
Some of the answers seemed almost too easy, but in the end I did have to search for the name of the golf club, and search even longer for the Japanese dish.
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This time I must have gotten about 15 words or so before giving up.
For me that is better than usual for a PandA.
(For a Cryptic I’d be lucky to get five.)
Anyway, now that I have “revealed” the rest of it, could somebody please explain 33A?
What does ENGENDER have to do with “aging or raving”?
And coming to think of it, also 16A.
OK, A POLO. But what does “Oh,no” have to do with it?
Maybe it has something to do with dropping an “L” from the word “Apollo”, but then you’re losing an “L”, not an “O”.
I can’t figure it out.
@Jerrold
For 33A: Think of the words ENG aging and ENG raving -- they're each an ENG ender.
For 16A, Apolo OHNO is a famous figure skater ;-)
C
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P.S. Also, even after Caitlin’s remarks, I still can’t get it about Gustav Mahler and ADHERENTS.
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@Jerrold
This clue isn't about Gustav Mahler. It's about the English composer, Gustav HOLST. So followers (or adherents) of Holst might facetiously be called HOLSTERS.