![]() ![]() I listen to classical music precisely so I don't have to deal with the mental clutter of words (i.e. Choral music was just never ever (ever) really my thing. Musically, I'm more familiar with the SCHROEDER REPERTOIRE, i.e. ![]() sure, PART SONGS, great, congratulations. I'll stipulate that PART SONGS is a *fantastic* answer and that I'm just ignorant. I just read the definition of PART SONGS and honestly still don't get it. Eventually I just guessed SONGS because I figured well, that's a word that means "numbers," so OK. Is that like a round song, like "Frère Jacques"? Oof, I had PART and then no idea. It's GOLDEN AGE not GOLDEN ERA (12D: Prosperous period). DIET PILLS are awful in real life and so awful in the grid. Trying to pretend they're not literary just makes them fussier / weirder, not better. People use that? It's weird that the puzzle wants to make ARGO and EYRE non-literary. Is that also bygone? Oh, no, just corn oil. What is Mazola? ( 10A: Sister brand of Mazola). This one fell short on both counts. The good stuff was not nearly good enough, or widespread enough, to offset the overall musty feel of the grid. Puzzles should have broad frames of reference and the cluing should be alive to the language of today. ![]() I really liked " JUST SAY IT!" as that was the one thing that felt like it had a pulse. Laura INNES isn't a contemporary reference any more, not since RIVERDANCE was a thing (seriously, has this puzzle been sitting in a drawer since '97?). 1 all-time movie crush) (OK, maybe tied with Teri Garr). I love Joel MCCREA (26D: Joel who once played Wyatt Earp in film), but then I watch more old movies than is probably healthy, and anyway, what a borrrrrrring clue for MCCREA-a charming, dreamy leading man who was the star of some of the greatest movies of the '40s, including Sullivan's Travels and one of my five favorite movies of all time, The More the Merrier (with JEAN ARTHUR, my No. I learned CANTAB from crosswords and then promptly stopped thinking about it because constructors got better at filling grids and also got slightly less Ivy-centric in their thinking (I think of CANTAB like I think of ELIHU Yale, i.e. How long has it been since someone tried to use THEPO in a grid? When's the last time someone used the term POOBAHS unironically? I think I learned that term from "Happy Days," which means it was already old-timey 45 years ago. ![]() How long has it been since there were CHEVY NOVAS? ( Not since the '80s). '80s, possibly, were it not for NEVE Campbell. For real, this could've come out in the late '90s, No Problem. I was having flashbacks, seeing fill I hadn't seen in two, four, twenty-four years, and for the life of me I could not find more than a wisp of contemporary. Felt like being bludgeoned with olde-tymeiness. First Amendment advocacy gp.This was not for me.Universal donors type briefly crossword clue.Activist Ledbetter for whom the 2009 Fair Pay Act is named crossword clue.Half of Bennifer familiarly crossword clue.Away from the bow on a boat crossword clue.Big name in bike and snow helmets crossword clue.South American mountain range crossword clue.Justin Timberlakes former band crossword clue.Many a character in YA fiction crossword clue.Response to a funny text and a hint to this puzzles five longest answers crossword clue.ApLA Times Crossword Answers Search for: Latest Clues.LA Times Crossword Puzzle ApPrint LA Times Daily Crossword Answers. ![]()
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