No one even watches The Movie Channel, do they?Īfter 28 minutes (28:01 precisely) of brain racking, I put in the last letter, and Almost There! popped on the screen. TCM is in fact the correct answer to this clue. 24A: Cinephile's channel ( TCM) - I'm so used to the NYTXW's getting this wrong that I actually wrote in the wrong answer, TMC, at first.Also, the cross there ( NOT) did NOT mean anything to me ( 11D: What "!" can mean in computer programming). 2," to the extent that it was thinking at all). 2B?" At one point my brain wanted APTWO (it was thinking "apt. just APT.? Do you really write out " APT. Biggest actual solving struggle today was APTNO (8A: Metropolitan address abbr.). I'm not being fair, there, as I'M is clearly a word and clearly has two letters, but somehow the apostrophe's being in there makes it an outlier in my eyes. Also, "I'M" is bugging me as a base word.
Probably not great to have IT in the grid (31D: IS IT?) when "IT" is one of your central themer words. and that's Canada!" (exclamation point!) is pretty entertaining. I always say, if you're gonna go wacky, go big or go home, and "big" can include "flat-out ridiculous." Honestly, just trying to imagine the context in which anyone would say this answer and then go ".
still has me smiling, primarily because of the clue, which is completely absurd. Pretty basic, pretty old-fashioned, pretty generic, but OK. Certainly my solving time was more Wednesday than Thursday. Feels like it should've been a Wednesday theme. It's just a two-letter word imagined as a two-letter initialism. I think the only thing that truly slowed me down today was the stunned, blinking surprise I had on discovering that.
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