Of course if my actions are discernable, I magnanimously hit the Open Door button and act all friendly and stuff.

How many times have I nastily jabbed at the Close Door button when I see a buncha slow-looking people headed my way. There are other buttons in an elevator that don’t indicate floors. If your bald head is smeared with it, you could have a pate pate. I kept going back and considering the clue for MOBILE. NASAL SPRAYs, when used carefully, are a medicinal miracle. I had no idea that SCANTY was a word - briefly looked into the difference between SCANT and SCANTY but just didn’t have the patience to pay - good one! Nice to have ODE next to the Grecian URN. Since we had for the themers all N+ 2 vowels, I would have preferred something like NUISANCE TAX instead of NUMERO UNO, but I don’t think symmetrical pairs would have been possible. I saw early on how this would be a play on the various ways to pronounce NEW and then was delighted to see the reveal. 'Huh, do you think they want KOOKABURRA here?,' I did not wonder.

It's not like I was unsure which 'Australian bird' it might be. Not that I don't like the idea of an EMO EMU, but the latter part of this clue adds no important information. 8D: Australian bird that's a vowel change from 7-Down ( EMU) - everything after 'bird' here is gratuitous.So all in all, that's B G C S O T, and if you anagram those, you get. And then another ('when said aloud') with TEA. It's also got two more letters ('when said aloud') in ESSO. 57A: Pollen gatherers ( BEES) - this puzzle contains three plural letters ('when said aloud'): BEES, GEES, and SEAS.31A: Spot for a mic clip ( LAPEL) - the puzzle is weirdly fixated on LAPEL mics this past week (LAPEL MIC was an answer.'medalist?'), but there's nothing wrong with giving a common name a new / current twist like this. gymnastics medalist ( LEE) - this also seems pretty un-Monday (just. You've got a '?' on the clue, you're covered. Last thing about the theme: there is no need for the 'when said aloud' part of the revealer clue. But still, this felt more Too-Teu-Tu-Tew-Tuesday to me. In the end, because the puzzle was otherwise pretty Monday, these weirdnesses were easily overcomeable. But the 'This' in wasn't a thing-it was the meaning of 'not good.' Pretty screwy cluing (again, esp. I thought it was one of those clues like 'Step on it!' and the answer would be, say, STAIR. Also had PAPAYA before BANANA (6D: Yellow fruit)-the 'A's are all in the same place!! And then I couldn't figure out what the hell the '!' was doing on the SPOILED clue ( 26D: This is not good!). Doesn't scream 'breakfast' to me, so yeah, slow going to start this one. people I know who drink TEA drink it all the time. SPELL seemed more likely, and anyway how deep into the D&D rules am I supposed to get for a Monday 1-Across anyway? SPY had a '?' clue ( 1D: Intel employee?) which kept that NW corner briefly mysterious, and then TEA. The clue on STAFF, for instance ( 1A: Wizard's weapon). The character has appeared in several films based on the Marvel character, such as Ant-Man (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Pym's Ant-Man is also a founding member of the super hero team known as the Avengers. The persona was originally the brilliant scientist Hank Pym 's superhero alias after inventing a substance that can change size, but reformed thieves Scott Lang and Eric O'Grady also took on the mantle after the original changed his superhero identity to various other aliases, such as Giant-Man, Goliath, and Yellowjacket. Created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby, Ant-Man's first appearance was in Tales to Astonish #35 (September 1962). Word of the Day: ANT-MAN ( 47D: Avenger played by Paul Rudd) -Īnt-Man is the name of several superheroes appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. NOODLE BOWLS (53A: Soba servings, for instance).NEUTRON STAR (23A: Ultradense galactic body).or, when said aloud, what 18-, 23-, 53- and 58-Across all have?) - each themer begins with the sound 'new' (or Greek letter 'Nu,' if that's more helpful): THEME: NEW BEGINNINGS (37A: Fresh starts.

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