Got stuck a little bit trying to get up into that NE corner.
It's 5am, I haven't had coffee, and the Saturday puzzle is now just sticking its tongue out at me (OK, OK, I'll play the song now). But then just when I think we're cooking with gas. Started to get a little momentum with THOU ( 26A: It's often seen beside art) (nice clue), which gave me OATS (sea OATS being something I *definitely* learned about from crosswords) ( 28D: Sea _ (grass seen in sand dunes)) and then Chaka gave me AIN'T (don't worry, yes, I am going to post the song, just hang on) and bam, HEN'S TEETH.
Crossword clue verdi opera plus#
But I survived, and there was nothing genuinely repulsive up there, plus I had a vast swath of puzzle yet to do, so things could've been worse. SOGS and REVET are the kind of answers that, look, you can point at the dictionary all day long, but I am not loving (let alone ever using) those words. Looking back at that NW corner, yeah, I would not willingly go there again. As it was, I crawled through it at a fairly typical Saturday pace ( OMELETTE helped a lot), and finally pushed the HUT in BEACH HUT down into the middle of the grid, giving me very meager purchase on whatever lay ahead. Without that bit of dumb trivial luck, that corner gets a lot more deathly. (more amazing still) got it off just the "L" from STAHL (!?). remembered that Verdi had an opera called " ATTILA" and b. What I'm wondering most is how (in the world) I a. When the only way into a corner is by desperately clinging to your roster of "60 Minutes" correspondent names ("SAFER!. Super-isolated corners, on Saturdays, tend to be miserable affairs, and that NW corner definitely threatened misery.
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