Stella ithink crack series#

Stella ithink crack series#

It’s rife in literature, including a joking reference in a letter from Friedrich ENGELS to Victor Adler.ģD: This is a terrific actress, Ruth NEGGA, who’s been in quite a few small screen series - you would probably recognize her face. It turns out that this is a great Old English phrase, pronounced as one would think, rooted in words for “lasting” and “horrible,” that’s begging for a comeback. Getting CBS put me back on track, but DURANCE VILE remained a mystifying run of letters. Also, there’s a very swinging Fela Kuti song that uses palaver in the chorus.ĥ5A: Funny how the mind works as this entry filled in on crosses, I settled on “Durante” at the beginning, as in Jimmy Durante, who I mistakenly mixed up with James Cagney, the antagonist of “Public Enemy” (remember the grapefruit scene?). Sooo true.) Also, although I didn’t get either entry until after a few passes, the first row of this puzzle, as a tone setter for the whole adventure, was quite endearing.ģ5A: Guessing this word (which was common crossword fill in the 1950s, but fell from use over time) brought me to one of my favorite writers, Gerald Durrell, who used the term PALAVER quite often in his stories about collecting wild animals in exotic places. The stacks in each corner were all just wonderful, too, replete with debuts, oddities and intimate jokes (SPORTSBRA and LABORIOUS. So many riffs - SLAG and LAG, MANE and TEASES, RUN and LAM. There are several interesting trains of thought running through the clues - let’s run MOHEL down through NÉE and ILL TIMED, why not? - and a snappy, irrepressible vibe. Plenty of rapids, though! Plenty of sharp rocks! Tricky Clues It looks daunting at first, even unnavigable, but after paddling uncertainly for a while your raft will find a current and rush you forward, pell mell.

I think that knowing these things helps explain the zeitgeist of this grid. Zawistowski is a supersonic force of nature in the crossword solving world as well as a powerlifter, a scientifically improbable combination of speed and strength. SATURDAY PUZZLE - I have been waiting for a Stella Zawistowski puzzle, and we’re lucky to get it on a weekend.