![]() the remaking of the joke into a symmetrically divisible joke) made everything a little weird, especially at the beginning. But the rephrasing for crossword purposes (i.e. just add an "of" and you've got the quite the movie title there. ![]() There is a coin called the SOU (or an amount, anyway) and "ARS gratia artis" is the MGM motto, so I wasn't entirely wrong. I thought the French coin was a SOU and that the phrase was ARS gratia, at first. That clue on " I LOVE L.A." is for sure recycled ( 60A: 1983 song that begins "Hate New York City"). Still to this day I have only ever see ANNA SUI in crosswords. RAM HOME took me a long time-the RAM part I had to get all from crosses. CHARM OFFENSIVE is the best thing in the grid by far ( 16D: Campaign of flattery). HAHA FUNNY isn't haha funny, but it's funny ( 20D: Humorous as opposed to strange). for sure 100% dead-on-the-money means SAPPY. Still, all in all, I think the puzzle was pretty average in terms of difficulty. That *was* the toughest corner, but I shoulda brought it down faster. Anyway, FOMO made the SW suddenly far less hard than it had been, though SEA CALF was weird / unknown to me, and I still don't really know what means, and I never saw "Silent Movie," and SLIVER was clued hard ( 44D: Dieter's piece of cake?), etc. and meanwhile just get more and more defeated by the puzzle. Like, if I feel like "I've got four of this answer's eight letters, how do I *not* have it yet!?" then I will dig in instead of leaving it and looking at everything else around it. This is a dumb and tenacious solving habit that I haven't quite figured out yet. ![]() and then seconds or minutes later I look at a clue to a nearby four-letter answer, say (today, it was 29D: Feeling that everyone's having fun without you, in modern lingo (FOMO)), and it's a gimme and all of a sudden the section I've been "stuck" in opens right up. I get "stuck" feeling, and get frustrated, and keep banging my head against answers I think I *should* be able to get. I seem to have this thing where I get "stuck" (at least my brain tells itself it's "stuck") before I've actually looked at every clue in a section. ![]() Found it 75% easyish, but then I stalled out badly in the SE, for reasons both understandable and dumb. Heavy on the crosswordese for a Friday, for sure. Great long Downs on this one, but the rest is just OK. ![]()
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