Here's some other stuff.Ģ3D: Cause for some fluff filling (slow news day) - I feel bad for this answer because it's superb but somewhat overshadowed by MR. That's the funnest bit of fifteen-letter fill I think I've ever seen. Then I got the "A" in the fifth position and MR. OK, I've been to Disneyland many times in my life, so when I hadįor 54A: Disneyland attraction since 1955, I got frustrated, briefly, at having no clue what it could be. So I liked a lot of this puzzle - details below - but the one answer that really made my evening (actually it made me exclaim a profane phrase in joyful disbelief) was. The clue is kind of morbid, in that it makes me think of dying baby pandas. 5D: Birthplace of the first giant panda in North America to survive to adulthood (San Diego Zoo) - almost wrote in SAN DIEGO, CAL, before realizing the actual, better answer.16A: One concerned with school activities? (marine biologist) - I know the "school" trick is pretty easy to see through, but this answer made me "ooh" nonetheless.But then the whole grid opened up from there with a couple of fabulous, long, intersecting wildlife answers, and after that I just slowed down and savored each new clue - I had a feeling that the puzzle was going to be consistently clever and impressive, and I was not disappointed.
My initial excitement was regional in nature - I've got EZ PASS booths ( 1A: Tollbooth option for Northeasterners) on the interstates to the east of me and ELMIRA ( 1D: College in south central New York) just down the interstate to the west of me, and those two intersect at the "E" in the far NW. I will have to go back and check, but it is up there, certainly top five.
I believe this is my favorite puzzle of 2007.
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