![]() That's a very showy and unexpected string of letters. I kinda like VPPICK (60D: Major political announcement before a convention, informally). There's very little to entertain you along the way, unless you are entertained by ACIDHEAD, in which case, what is wrong with you? Who says that? What year is it? After you admire the puzzle's look and grasp the theme, it's just a boring walk to the end. Also, HASAGO and MAKEASTOP feel like a theme idea running on fumes, and the last thing this puzzle needed was two more _ A _ answers when it already had two "EAT A SANDWICH" representatives in play with LOSE A GAME and HIRE A DJ, LOL, that second one is so bad it's almost good. But the fact that the yellow was both words (STOP and GO), or either word, I guess, oof, that was awkward. " I'LL STOP NOW" & " I'LL GO NOW"!? It is true that you can choose to stop when you see yellow or you can choose to go when you see yellow but you can choose to do a lot of things and none of this has anything to do with what the color formally means, which is "proceed with caution." Admittedly, that is a phrase that would be hard to rebus. Do you really expect me to believe, and to have understood, as I was solving, that the yellow light there meant STOP *or* GO. Couldn't even really make sense of the way the clue was worded, with that strange bracketed in the middle of it. SLOW? WAIT? CAUTION? Like, I had no ideas. ![]() So if green means GO and red means STOP, yellow means. Actually, there was one "gift," and it was the most baffling and inexcusable part of the theme: the Down clue running through the yellow light. The gimmick was a cinch to uncover, and once you know it, it has no gifts left to give. The rest was easy, humorless, surpriseless, and too often awkward, clunky, or downright ugly. Beyond that, this puzzle had nothing to offer except one very creative answer ( VODKA RED BULL). Everything good about this puzzle is in its look-really impressive to get those black square formations looking exactly like traffic lights, and maintaining symmetry with the light placement was a nice added touch. I'm like Charlie Brown and the football with Sundays. I should've known Sunday would let me down, again. I was just thinking "three very good puzzles in a row, that's an extraordinary and anomalous run, I wonder how long the puzzle can keep it up?" So I jinxed it, I guess, because the streak stops hard at three. Sam Wilson as Falcon and Captain America has made several media appearances, including in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where the character is portrayed by Anthony Mackie in the films Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Ant-Man (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and the television miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021). Jim Wilson's father Gideon Wilson would go on to join the Gamma Corps. Wilson's deceased nephew was the Incredible Hulk's sometime-sidekick Jim Wilson, one of the first openly HIV-positive comic-book characters. After Steve Rogers retires, Wilson becomes Captain America in All-New Captain America #1 (Jan. 1969), and was the first African-American superhero in mainstream comic books.Īs the superhero Falcon, Wilson uses mechanical wings to fly, and has limited telepathic and empathic control over birds. The character was introduced by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Gene Colan in Captain America #117 (Sept. Word of the Day: FALCON ( 85D: Avenger who stepped into the role of Captain America) -įalcon ( Samuel Thomas " Sam" Wilson) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. THE JOLLY GREEN GIANT / HAS A GO (109A: Mascot who made his Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade debut in 2017 / 80D: Tries).CATCH RED-HANDED / MAKE A STOP (103A: Bust mid-crime / 77D: Pull off the road for gas or snacks, say).EVER GREEN STATE / "DON'T GO THERE" (66A: Washington, with "the" / 37D: "That's a touchy subject").IN THE YELLOWPAGES / "I'LL ( GO STOP) NOW" (63A: Listed, obsolescently / 43D: "It's my turn" Comment after rambling on).VODKA RED BULL / HEART- STOPPING (60A: Cocktail with an energy boost / 35D: Thrilling).WINTER GREEN MINTS / GO STALE (23A: Strong breath fresheners / 27D: Lose its spark, as a relationship). ![]() INFRA RED SPECTRUM / STOPGAPS (7A: Range of light that's invisible to the human eye).THEME: "Some Light Reading" - grid depicts seven different stoplights, in various states of coloration (red, green, or yellow) the colors stand for colors in the Acrosses that run through them and for STOP or GO (or, in the case of yellow, either STOP *or* GO) in the Downs:
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