I couldn’t imagine that that was supposed to mean. I was supposed to go help with inventory at our company warehouse many years ago, and the directions I was given (this is before GPS became common) involved going past something called Pohanka Acura. Now that I think of it, something similar happened with ACURA.
Then I Googled it and got 12.4 million hits. Not only had I not heard of it, but I couldn’t imagine such a word existed. Then everyone else though I was joking when I said I’d never heard of it. I thought it was a joke, and that no such word could possibly exist. When I was twenty(ish), we were playing Trivial Pursuit and a question came up about who invented the Zamboni. Of course, somehow reading Arabian peninsula for Asian peninsula made ANKARA much, much harder than it should have been. Finally, just started mentally listing _-OFFICE phrases and came up with BOX and OVAL, which saved me, albeit with a guess at PET/YAKITORI. With 80% done, spent about ten minutes putting things in and taking them out, but getting nowhere. Thought I was headed for a wholesale DNF in the SW and a 1-square DNF in the NW. added "in proof" - I second who wonders how OAR fits the clue for 10-Down So yes, difficult clues for proper nouns in counter-action to a relatively easily grasped theme. It was interesting to see Eisenhower's wife at 16-Across, along with another spouse of a GOP Presidential candidate at 20-Across. I chuckled at the Möbius strip clue for END (41-Across), and didn't mind going all the way back to FDR's time as a way to avoid the gun lobby (28-Down). I didn't know the Japanese dish at 38-Down and had to do an alphabet run to get the T that crosses the deceptively clued PET. Frankly, I would have preferred a clue to the middle author of a cornerstone paper in molecular biology, but suspect that would not have been well received.
AMBIENCE CROSSWORD CLUE TV
Both TV shows I watched intermittently in my youth. Gavin MACLEOD played a newswriter on the Mary Tyler Moore show, immediately prior to his gig as captain of the Love Beat. SPOT-ON review by of Spitz's interesting puzzle, which based on information posted elsewhere, manages to shoehorn in the first names of both of his parents. I guarantee you that "A" roughs up tons of people (I know this because it roughed me up and I already know of two confirmed other cases and the puzzle hasn't even been out that long). Most egregious: non-gun-related, alphabet-souped NRA crossing "Love Boat" actor Gavin insanely-spelled MACLEOD (I had to look at the grid twice to spell it just now). Proper nouns of yore were probably over-represented here and *definitely* were not thoughtfully dealt with. Anyway, theme easy, overall cluing, a little less so. Also misspelled AMBIENCE (thusly), but that's par for the course. agent, informally), and couldn't figure out what the hell a was supposed to be (kept wanting NOR) (?). Cross wasn't much help, as I had TMAN instead of GMAN (9D: F.B.I.
Stared at -ER CHILD but the only thing I could imagine was (INN)ER CHILD. And I had everything *but* the corner at 13D: Archetype and still couldn't get it. I didn't know what YAKITORI was, so that took every single cross, and thus made that SW corner harder to work out ( FDA APPR(OVAL) was a doozy of a themer-probably the best of the bunch). The OVAL and (especially) the POSTER boxes were much tougher to figure out than the other two. The puzzle definitely toughened up in places. different types of offices go in the corners, and I knew this inside the first minute. NW came together fast, so the BOX corner went in early, and it was a short trip from there to the revealer, which only needed a couple crosses to become evident-plus it was a two-answer revealer, which really opened the grid right up. This theme was not at all tough to uncover. If I say you're relatively easy, that's that. Also, hey, puzzle, don't get cute with me, or wink at me, or joke with me about how hard or easy the puzzle is.
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