Barcelona ( CLUB) - Wrote in CITY, quite confidently. The puzzle wants to be hip and fresh, but it just comes across as clumsy. Didn't like complete sentence cluing very much incomplete sentence " ON IT." And worst of all was " UM NO," which I had as "UH, NO," because who the hell can tell? ( 60d: "Let me think. "fire trucks are ON SCENE." I don't know. I can kinda hear that phrase as something someone might say in a news broadcast, e.g. I'd much sooner believe that "it" is "happening" at an IN SPOT than ON SCENE. I assume the clue for that is supposed to be, but this is what AcrossLite provided: "Is that a great sunset OR WHAT?" But you would never say "Is that a great sunset am I right?!" because the only way "am I right?!" makes sense is if it is added on to a statement. am I right?" The only way "OR WHAT" makes sense is if it is added on to a question, i.e. " OR WHAT" does not swap out easily with its clue, 23D: ". And the puzzle tries so hard to be hip and colloquial, but it mostly whiffs there, too. I mean, just run your eye over any section: EXEC DESI ADIN? (crossing ICES IN?) EIRE TIARA EASEBY EENSY. And they're not even that interesting, and the whole architecture of the grid that allows for those 9s also creates a buncha boring short stuff. Four themer-length answers, all longer than the central theme answer, just. And then there's these distracting non-theme 9 stacks in the NW and SE, which I kept thinking should have theme content. This is just trivia, with a listless revealer. I mean, who cares? People search for (and find) lots of stuff. The revealer, SEARCH RESULTS, is sleep-inducing all on its own. It's been revealed to Reverend Fallon that virtual reality's a medium of Satan, 'cause you don't watch enough tv after you start doing it.This is just dull. Liska scrambled to put down the ASP and pull the newspaper over it and the Fallon Polarolds, even though no one was paying the least attention to her. There was so much weight to be put into the helicopter that there could be only two passengers, and since it was going to be a job for a strongish man to attach the gear to the winch cable and get it out of the helicopter Halstead was chosen in preference to Fallon. When he moved into the side porch to unlock the sacristy door, Fallon was sitting on the small bench leaning against the corner, head on his chest, hands in the pockets of his trench coat. They looked impressive, trucking along out there in front, Onan Moley flanked by Rector and Fallon, but nobody remembered to throw a block.įallon looked around as if searching for some neutral third party to witness what was happening to him now, but there was no one.įallon wasn't too happy about that, but headshrinkers sometimes lose contact with the real world-occupational hazard, I suppose. There was that pillar I'd found right next to the oak tree great-grandfather had plantedOld Cross-eyes I'd called him, and Fallon bad been very pleased, but I mustn't let Jack Edgecombe near him.įrom what I could gather from Fallon the mysteriously named Quintana Roo was something of a hell hole. The door opened so violently that it splintered against the wall and Fallon stood there, one side of his face still lathered, the cut-throat razor open in his right hand. He seemed as uninterested as though he'd merely found a sixpence in the street instead of the city he'd been bursting a gut trying to find, It was Fallon who was bubbling over with excitement.įallon finished the cigarette and crushed the butt out on the sole of his shoe.įallon took off his trench coat and draped it over the back of a convenient choir stall.
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