![]() ![]() I’m a longtime avid NYTXW fan as well as a frequent reader of this blog. Truly a terrible answer on any day, but especially off-putting at the beginning of a Monday puzzle.įirst time posting, but today I felt compelled. something about the very idea sets my teeth on edge (is that the expression? "teeth on edge"?). The idea that I should know the slang term for some frat. maybe it's my particular aversion, but I just can't keep any of them straight or make myself care at all about my inability to keep them straight. SIG EP? I'm sure I've seen it before, but fraternities and sororities. I wrote in SIGMA and figured that had to be it. A frat? An abbreviated frat? At 1-Down!? On a Monday!? So yucky. But the toughest, and ugliest, and absolute worst of all non-Mondayness was SIG EP (1D: Skull-and-crossbones fraternity, for short). I am way more familiar with the MARS ROVER than the MOON ROVER, so that was also tough ( 3D: Wheeled vehicle designed to function in low gravity). Even AT CAMP (one of the weaker answers) felt tough to come up with without a bunch of crosses ( 5D: Spending time away from parents for the summer, say). FBI FILE, toughish to parse ( 7D: Certain collection of criminal evidence and documents). Again, fine answer, but I had to struggle for it. "1 million on the Scoville scale"!? Not an everyday thing, by a long shot. CHILI, OK, but I never think about the GHOST CHILI. Totally valid answer, but not Monday-easy for me. was more regularly in the news, but I have not seen that acronym in what feels like forever. I'll start with AMFAR, which I remember, vaguely, from a long time ago, when A.I.D.S. Loved this nifty, tight, Monday-type theme, but wow this did not play "Monday" for me at all. ![]()
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