![]() As if they didn't pay their rent or had loud parties or something. It's such a great, ordinary, everyday, non-hifalutin' word to describe A + E. Perfect, in that it is a word that is rarely if ever used to describe our Fallen progenitors (if you believe in that sort of thing), but that nonetheless fits, well, Perfectly. I wanted "denizen" or the like for 32A at first, but "evictee"! So sweet. But the four spaces of 6D didn't leave much doubt that this was EDEN. These circular clues (where one refers to another, which refers back to the first) can be maddening. Silly teens!ģ2A: Adam or Eve vis-à-vis 6-Down (evictee) "Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids!" Note: Google Image search of "Trix rabbit" reveals a very high number of links to MySpace profile pages, which means the Trix Rabbit must have something to do with drug culture. So, so nice, what with the "x" and double "b" in there, and the cartooniness and nostalgia-riffic happy feeling that the answer evokes carefully hidden under a dull, corporate-sounding clue. Again, if you haven't abandoned this site forever by this point, I'll finish the job: Friends was the superior sitcom.ģ0A: General Mills cereal trademark (Trix Rabbit) Why do I want to watch a group of hateful selfish jerks sit around and grouse and snark and grasp after catch phrases for a half hour? And that horrible horrible bass guitar in the theme and scene transition music. ![]() He always seemed like a sad rip-off of the Reverend Jim Ignatowski from Taxi. Only the best for my Sahra).ħA: Sitcom character in apartment 5B (Kramer)Īt the risk losing my entire audience (exactly 12 lonely people in the Tri-State area, I'm pretty sure), I am going to say that I never liked Seinfeld and that Kramer is a big reason why. occasionally racist and super-violent Looney Tunes. Actually, I should penalize myself a few seconds because I solved one of the clues while I was downstairs, off the clock, making sure Sahra (her self-selected screen name - "the 'h' is silent," I'm told) had put her dishes away and was safely ensconced in front of Looney Tunes (vintage Looney Tunes you know, the good, old-timey. My enjoyment level was high despite having to do the puzzle for a second day in a row in pencil (too Lazy to get up and look for a pen) and having to stop twice for various kid-related breaks. The long answers (7+ letters, of which there are many) are almost all ingenious and entertaining, unexpected or surprising without being excessively recondite (for instance, the word "recondite" is nowhere to be found in this puzzle).
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