![]() ![]() KAL-EL, NEXT, and AGOG-that's what I had. NE proved much tougher, as I got ANEW up into there, but then couldn't get much to work, Across-wise or Down-wise, on first pass. ![]() This puzzle started with IOTA (wrong) at 1A: Minute bit, which was quickly fixed by crosswording's favorite fisherman, the EELER, and then I went through the NW without much trouble. So turning that particular corner was rough. And I've literally never heard of Jay SEAN until just now. ![]() Spent I don't know how long imagining that 5D: Japanese P.M executed in 1948 ( TOJO) was actually a clue about a former Sony exec (which is a clue you do see from time to time in crosswords, another four-letter Japanese name … I think my brain turned "P.M." into CEO and then just ignored the "executed" and "1948" parts … oh, and I still can't remember that Sony exec's name). Usually get stopped on names I just don't know, or that won't come to me, and that was certainly true today. My brain was foggy from a hard ten hours sleep, but I usually crush David Steinberg Friday puzzles, so I ended up feeling like I struggled, but with a pretty normal Friday time. ![]()
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