![]() ![]() 69A: Longtime mall chain ( GAP) - When did GAP lose the "THE?" I don't think of the GAP as a "mall chain," and yet I've never been in one that wasn't in a mall.Hesitated over AGE GROUP for a bit ( 39D: Demographic division). Didn't know Krugerrands came in KARATs ( 58A: One of 22 in a Krugerrand). ![]() I also forgot that ARMY was the Team nicknamed the Black Knights, and didn't know that the JAGUAR was a Figure of many a Mayan deity. There were a couple of speedbumps that kept this from being a real speedfest. following 47A, where "ONE'S" is understood as "one's own" here, the gist of "ONE'S" seems to be "someone else's." Awkward. 62A: Do as a mentor did, say ( IN ONE'S FOOTSTEPS) - this doesn't feel like it was clued correctly, esp.17A: Sing-along direction ( THE BOUNCING BALL).All in all, a solid example of this theme type, with little in the way of either difficulty or cruddiness. I did like " THAT CAR," probably because I've just begun a new semester of teaching crime fiction but the rest were just. Not the most exciting theme type (though one of the three puzzles I've had published to date had *exactly* this theme type, so I can't complain too much). Most of the theme answers just filled themselves in after that-in fact, I'm pretty sure that for at least a couple of them, I didn't even have to look at the clue: crosses told me what the answer would be. and then I easily supplied FOLLOW and off I went. ORDERS wasn't making any kind of sense as it came into view, and then I looked up and saw what looked like THE BOUNCING. ![]()
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