Constructor: Richard Chisholm



Relative difficulty: Easy



THEME: "We" — first words of theme answers are all homophones



Word of the Day:

RANDI

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Theme answers:

18A: Young girls in Glasgow (WEE LASSIES)

26A: First words of the Constitution ("WE THE PEOPLE...")

43A: Polite assent in Paris (OUI, MONSIEUR)

54A: Piece of Nintendo game equipment (WII CONSOLE)

) —Seen it.Once, from the back end, here And again, earlier (before WII was invented), in the June '06 )—theme answers WEE WILLIE WINKIE,, and WE SHALL OVERCOME. This is the kind of stuff you're supposed to check before embarking on a puzzle. Blew through this like it wasn't there until the very very end when I lost precious seconds in the southwest. Took me a couple beats to get the front end of -CONSOLE (GAME wouldn't fit, then the theme dawned on me). Then I ran into the WIT /issue (). Correctly went with, but then erased it when I saw [] would then start with "G." Must be WIT / TOADS, I reasoned. So, yeah, I hate the idea ofas "swimmers" (though, of course, they are). I also hate the definition on), a word that strongly implies approval or endorsement, not mere overlooking. I see that "overlook" is listed as a synonym in places, but I still think it sucks as a definition. Anyway, just that little hiccup there kept me from getting under 3 minutes.I like "" () and). You can have the rest of the puzzle back.Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld