![]() I’m a longtime avid NYTXW fan as well as a frequent reader of this blog. Truly a terrible answer on any day, but especially off-putting at the beginning of a Monday puzzle.įirst time posting, but today I felt compelled. something about the very idea sets my teeth on edge (is that the expression? "teeth on edge"?). The idea that I should know the slang term for some frat. maybe it's my particular aversion, but I just can't keep any of them straight or make myself care at all about my inability to keep them straight. ![]() SIG EP? I'm sure I've seen it before, but fraternities and sororities. I wrote in SIGMA and figured that had to be it. A frat? An abbreviated frat? At 1-Down!? On a Monday!? So yucky. But the toughest, and ugliest, and absolute worst of all non-Mondayness was SIG EP (1D: Skull-and-crossbones fraternity, for short). I am way more familiar with the MARS ROVER than the MOON ROVER, so that was also tough ( 3D: Wheeled vehicle designed to function in low gravity). ![]() Even AT CAMP (one of the weaker answers) felt tough to come up with without a bunch of crosses ( 5D: Spending time away from parents for the summer, say). FBI FILE, toughish to parse ( 7D: Certain collection of criminal evidence and documents). Again, fine answer, but I had to struggle for it. "1 million on the Scoville scale"!? Not an everyday thing, by a long shot. CHILI, OK, but I never think about the GHOST CHILI. ![]() Totally valid answer, but not Monday-easy for me. was more regularly in the news, but I have not seen that acronym in what feels like forever. I'll start with AMFAR, which I remember, vaguely, from a long time ago, when A.I.D.S. Loved this nifty, tight, Monday-type theme, but wow this did not play "Monday" for me at all. ![]()
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