Highly enjoyable, though I could’ve wished for it to be a bit harder. Hint to everyone: If you bump up the intensity of the graphic design on multiple elements of the same page, then none of them will pop because they’re all fighting for your attention. If I had a dollar for every client who’s said “make it pop!” about everything on a particular page or screen, I wouldn’t have to work in advertising. 35A for TRUST FALL: The punny hits just keep on coming!ġ9A POPS, as clued was a bit of a trigger for me, but that’s because I work in advertising.28D is also a nice pun for PLEASE RISE.60A is a nicely deceptive clue for COSTAR.Both the clue and the answer are fun to say! 13A I don’t believe I’ve encountered CAPOEIRA in a puzzle before, and I was glad to.There’s enough good stuff in this themeless that I’ll forgive it for being too easy. Los Angeles Times 7/30/22 by Kate Chin Park Kate Chin Park’s Los Angeles Times crossword - Stella’s write-up Less keen on bits like suffix -DOM, TRU, Italian grammar MIA, and ERST, but overall pretty solid. As in big-ass, bad-ass, ugly-ass, and so on. The Pac-12 will be losing at least two teams soon! It remains to be seen if the conference rebrands itself with a different number, or dispenses with a numeral altogether.

is a BLUNT if you’re smoking pot, and at 48d the same clue works for CHEF. evokes SINEAD O’Connor.įave fill: THREE-LEGGED RACE, GUIDE DOG, LEAD BALLOON, and SLIDING DOOR clued as 10d.ĭruggie two-fer: 44d. Two Irish singers are in the mix: ENYA is 4d.

I hadn’t known that FILET MIGNON was 24d. NY Times crossword solution, 7 30 22, no.

Easy crosswords