Virtual city denizen crossword clue
47A: Flagston family pet (Dawg) - I have No Idea what this means.32A: Sister of Marge Simpson (Selma) - SELMA gets all the love.Most recent pitchman for this product is Ben Stein. 23A: "Gets the red out" sloganeer (Visine) - misspelled this at first (Visene).
17A: "What _ Did" (classic children's book with a punny title) ("Katy") - get it? Katydid? Here's a pic:.15A: Di or da preceder in a Beatles song ("Ob la") - don't like that it's a partial, but do like that it reminds me of the Beatles' White Album and The Police's "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" simultaneously.ELLA - 33D: Former Connecticut governor Grasso Īpologies to any stalwarts I happened to leave out.GRAF - 18A: _ Spee (old German warship).A quick tour around the grid reveals far too many old "favorites": I'm most surprised, and disappointed, today in the volume of ultra-common crossword fill. There's a bad joke waiting there: What city do talkative people live in? Tell that one to your friends and watch them stare at you in horror / disbelief / pity. I imagine someone using the word LOQUACITY incorrectly, then, after getting called on it, saying "MY MISTAKE." I also like that I got LOQUACITY off of just the -CITY part. The pair of long Downs - MY MISTAKE ( 35D: "I can't blame anyone else") and LOQUACITY ( 10D: Talkativeness).RON ( 25A: Scientology founder _ Hubbard) on top of its anagram, LORN ( 36A: Forsaken). HITTING THE LINKS seems like the best of the lot to me, though I had HITTING THE NINES (56A) at first (guessing, wrongly it seems, that such a phrase might be used in reference to playing NINE holes). PLAYING EIGHTEEN (39A) w as rough for me, because when I first saw it I had no idea golf was the theme and so I wrote in PLAYING EIGHTBALL. The first one seems OK, though ON THE GOLF COURSE (20A) could describe squirrels as well as golfers.
None of the theme phrases have much zing, but I'll have to take the puzzle's word that these are apt golfing phrases. Never golfed in my life, so the enjoyment factor today was a little low. THEME: Golfing - three 15-letter theme answers about golfing, each one clued the same way: