large power of ten crossword clue 4 letters

A friend of mine just reported on Facebook that her son (age 9) rebutted his teacher, who said the sun was made of gas. I have not seen any of these films, but know about the Rashomon effect named after the movie.įavorite clue: 26D: for STARS. AKIRA KUROSAWA balances out the first title’s length. The theme includes four of his movies THRONE OF BLOOD, THE IDIOT, RAN, and RASHOMON. Yes? No? This puzzle’s appearing this week because it was Kurosawa’s 100th birthday on Tuesday. It seems like the sort of erudite theme that would appeal to constructors, though maybe not quite as much to the daily newspaper solving audience. I wonder how many other constructors have submitted puzzles with Kurosawa themes. You’ll make me blush.Īnnemarie Brethauer’s Chronicle of Higher Education crossword, “Eastern Direction” Speaking of my eyes, each one has an AREOLA (14A: ). I know only three use RE- as a true prefix, but they sensitized my eyes to the REs. Besides BEAME and BEAMY, there’s EN MASSE with EN ROUTE and the RE- family: REVUE, RECLASPS, REENTER, REEVES, REOPENED, and REEDIER.

Trivia! 50D and 28D are one answer in two parts, clued with.

So Bel Paese cheese is Pretty Country cheese? Tricky! is not ITALY but rather, the Italian word for “country,” PAESE. I half suspected it might also be a term for, I dunno, some sort of livestock.

Terrific fill: ZERO-SUM GAME is clued as a. Great clue: refers to LUGGAGE at the airport baggage claim. Roman numeral clue for a Latin answer? Wha…? We don’t see that much. “HARRUMPH” is something I write more than I utter aloud. I don’t like RECLASPS as an answer, but I like the clue. The bedroom window overlooked I-70, which has really fast truck traffic. 23A: VAIL took me way too long to suss out, despite the fact that my sister-in-law lives in that and despite the fact that when we visited her a few years ago, she lived a couple towns down the highway.At 18A, ETHEL is clued as the played by Katharine Hepburn.FRANKENSTEIN, two of the finest Teutonic names ever. Here are my favorite things that I had, in fact, heard of before doing this puzzle: That’s kind of a lot of items in the “things I didn’t know” category for a little 15×15 puzzle. Or is he the famous mayor of Cooperstown? You could say what baseball team he played for, what position, and what years, and I still wouldn’t have known this. CALANDO is one of those music words that is utterly foreign to me. It’s not that some people must shudder in order to think-it’s that people say “I shudder to think that…” Totally misunderstood the clue for SHUDDER. Didn’t realize that BEAMY () was an actual word. What were the odds that another actress would pop up days later? Should’ve eyeballed the IMDb page last weekend. Holy moly, are you kidding me? I didn’t know “December Bride” when an actress from that was in Merl Reagle’s Sunday puzzle last weekend. I didn’t know what tense the verb in 26A: would be, so I tried BEGET and BEGOT (ETESIEN and ETESION) first. ETESIAN is a but not, as ill luck would have it, one of the winds Volkswagen named a car after. At least DEO is a plausible monument inscription. You’d think I’d remember than from visiting the obelisk last summer, but no.

I hate racehorse, poker, and nautical clues. MEG MARCH is the, Alcott’s Little Women.

Eventually I knew this, with enough crossings. Should I have known that means SERENE? Probably. Taj Mahal = India, Casbah = North Africa. Criminy, what are so many things I don’t know doing in a single Friday puzzle? Let us enumerate the trouble spots:

Large power of ten crossword clue 4 letters