It shows that Calvin feels stifled by school, as though he were unable to breathe (or that he is desperate to return home). It shows that Calvin feels he is being forced to fit in with the rest of the crowd.Ĭalvin in Fish Form shows Calvin as an oversized green fish with Calvin's hair flopping about, trying to reach water from land. The block had all of Calvin's features, but had flattened them out to fit on the faces, except for the overlapping hair. It shows that Calvin feels dead at the end of the school day (or that he considers school to be mind-numbing).Ĭalvin in Block Form shows Calvin as a square shaped block in a peg-and-hole game, being forcibly crammed by a hammer into the right slot. It shows that Calvin feels he is meant merely to repeat what the teacher says rather than state his own ideas.Ĭalvin in Zombie Form portrays a blue-skinned, stitched-up, zombified version of Calvin escaping from a grave at night. The alter ego shows that Calvin finds schoolwork robotic and repetitive.Ĭalvin in Parrot Form shows Calvin as a squawking parrot with Calvin's clothes, hair, hands and humanoid eyes, sitting on a bird perch. This alter ego shows that Calvin perceives school akin to painful forced labor.Ĭalvin in Wind-Up Form shows a clockwork-powered robot made to look like Calvin, which presumably repeated the same movements over and over until its spring failed. This alter ego shows that Calvin thinks he gets very little from his "hard work" at school.Ĭalvin in Convict Form was depicted as a stereotypical "Old West" convict, with a striped uniform, ball-and-chain restraints and leg irons, painfully laying down a railroad. This alter ego shows that Calvin sees school as some form of brainwashing, stuffing his mind with things he doesn't want.Ĭalvin in Hamster Form was identical to Calvin in appearance, but acted as a hamster, relentlessly running on an exercise wheel. This alter ego shows that Calvin sees himself as just another member of a herd at school.Ĭalvin in Assembly Line Form portrays Calvin sitting motionless on a conveyor belt as a claw removed the top of his head and a tube poured green goo inside as though he were a jar. And then a handful of proper names that I knew, but not in association with the clues given: NORRIS, SPENCE, HESSE, EDAN.Calvin in Feedlot Form is Calvin running alongside cows in a feedlot pen. And ROPE STITCH - I knew it had to be a STITCH, but given that my fiber art of choice is knitting, I’m not as familiar with that term for a. Got the whole NE fine, though it felt a little unusual to see ELBA clued as, given how Idris ELBA has been in so many grids recently ( with data to prove it). Really wanted NORMAN BATES to be the rather than OEDIPUS REX. I had so many cognitive blocks that kept the answers from resolving: didn’t want the THE on THE DEAD SEA, thought LONDON EYE had to be EYE OF LONDON, could only think of GROANS instead of WINCES for. Maybe it was the lack of coffee, or an off morning. Not boring! Not miserable! But a peak-Fireball-level challenging task (and rated as “Hard” on BEQ’s site). I : HOPPED TO IT, but this ended up as TORTURE, though not because it was a. Alas, it seems to be lying fallow in both Twitter and blog realms.īrendan Emmett Quigley’s Themeless Monday crossword-Laura’s write-up Someone long ago (okay, seven years, but that’s long enough in the digital era) capitalized on a moniker that I’d previously considered as a secondary persona (or something, I don’t really know, which is why I never did anything about it,but that’s probably more information than you wanted to know about anyway, am I right? *): Typo Marx. Unless you go by birth names, in which case it’s GUMMO.
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Also from the dusty archives, but more familiar to the solverati: 53d THEDA. Hadn’t realized how slim the pickings are for famous Suzys. Yeeks, those are some ugly shortenings, especially early on in a Monday offering.
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11d BACKUP PLAN, 28d EATS FOR TWO-highly literal clue there. GEORGE STRAIT.Įach is framed differently from their oceanographic features. Ī list type theme that must have been done many times over, but probably with a novel revealer. Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Julian Thorne’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “It’s About Time!” - Jim’s review By far the most popular semiprecious stone in crosswordland. I’m contractually obligated to mention when it isn’t presented pejoratively. Do you know about this kind-of-amazing story?
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This seems like an oddly idée fixe clue, perhaps peculiar to one of the constructors? Not that it isn’t a recurring theme in the strip. Tidy little 14×16 grid with bilateral symmetry.