Title: Where did he hide my LEGO?
You have to go back more than 9 years to see the first puzzle by this team reviewed here at the CORNER. Then you have to travel 9,811 miles to watch me prepare this write-up from Thung Saliam, Sukhotjai Province,Thailand. I am no world traveler like Steve, but we are here as Oo's son honors her by being ordained a monk for 7 days. Back to the write-up; I commented back in 2009 about coincidence in puzzles, and here we are again. Just after commented on Mark McClain's use of the black space in his Sunday effort, this team goes one better and has the black space represent the word BLOCK, which is of course is what a black space is. Wonderful. And for the icing on the cake the symmetry of the break 9/5 to 5/9 3/11 to 11/3 extraordinary.
17A. Impediment: STUMBLING (9) (BLOCK) and 19A. Neighborhood gathering: (BLOCK) PARTY.(5). Once a again, a grid -spanning set.
25A. Beach application: SUN (3) (BLOCK) and 28A. Billion-dollar pharmaceuticals: (BLOCK) BUSTER DRUGS.(11). This slowed me down as I did not know this PHRASE.
61A. Local anesthesia effect: NERVE.(5) (BLOCK) and 62A . Device with pulleys: (BLOCK) AND TACKLE (9).
The reveal:
67A. Word aptly represented by four black squares in this puzzle: BLOCK.
Across:
1. Bad cut: GASH.
5. And: ALSO.
9. __ Ababa: ADDIS.
14. Natural skin soother: ALOE.
15. Good earth: LOAM.
16. Datum in a forensic database: PRINT.
20. Outcasts: PARIAHS.
21. Boiling point?: KETTLE.
22. "No seats" sign: SRO.
23. Score after deuce: AD IN.
34. More than suspect: KNOW.
36. Early 20th-century touring cars: REOS.
37. Part of a joke: SETUP.
38. Lingering effect: ECHO.
39. Not as dotty: SANER.
41. Colorado tributary: GILA.
42. Massey of old films: ILONA. She was a star. LINK.
44. Thoroughbred's dad: SIRE.
45. "Git!": SCAT.
50. Pushed the doorbell: RANG.
51. Night school subj.: ESL.
53. Scandinavian bar exchange: SKOALS.
57. Corrode: EATAWAY.
64. Words in some English resort town names: ON SEA.
65. Major fit: RAGE.
66. First name in homespun humor: ERMA.
68. Watched carefully: EYED.
69. Exchange jabs: SPAR.
Down:
1. [You can't mean that!]: GASP.
2. Wasatch Mountains resort: ALTA. This is the LINK. I am much more familiar with park City.
3. __ grapes: SOUR.
4. Some Chrysler engines: HEMIS.
5. Around-the-clock: ALL HOURS.
6. Half a Daily Planet byline: LOIS.
7. __ Antonio: SAN.
8. Texting interjection: OMG.
9. Tacks on: APPENDS.
10. "Phooey!": DRAT.
11. __-cheap: DIRT.
12. Like some JFK flights: INTL.
13. Lid issue: STYE.
18. Verbal jab: BARB.
21. Cassis apéritif: KIR.
23. Penitent: ATONING.
24. Mirage site: DESERT.
25. Knitter's coil: SKEIN.
26. Family reunion attendee: UNCLE.
27. At all: NOHOW.
29. A pass may cover one: SEASON.
30. Brief rules?: REGS.
31. City in New York's Mohawk Valley: UTICA.
32. Stalin-era prison: GULAG.
33. Dramatic outpouring: SPATE.
35. Policy __: WONK.
40. Readied, as leftovers: REHEATED.
43. Puncture consequence: AIR LEAK. I guess, but it sounds
47. Court figures, for short: DAS.
48. Ensenada pronoun: ESTA. A Spanish word.
52. Velcro alternative: LACES.
53. Nose-in-the-air sort: SNOB.
54. __ Ration: KEN-L.
55. Guesstimate phrase: OR SO.
56. With, on le menu: AVEC. Our French word of the day.
57. Do landscaping work: EDGE.
58. Dr. Johnny Fever's fictional station: WKRP. In Cincinnati...
59. Soprano Gluck: ALMA.
60. Sommelier's concern: YEAR. The vintageof the wine.
62. "__ you out of your mind?": ARE.
63. "All opposed" reply: NAY. And the votes are in and i lovr=ed this puzzle.
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