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Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium and then a final square that ... ??? I have no idea how people filled that one in, or what the app accepted, or really anything ... 

THEME: "SHADE" in the "D"! — [deeeeeep sigh] the theme is a hypothetical multiple-choice test question about Scrabble from some mythical place where people take multiple-choice tests about such things, what in the world...?  — 16A: With 30- and 49-Across, test question to be answered by filling in the correct circle ("IN A SCRABBLE GAME / WHAT TILE IS WORTH / TWO POINTS?"); at the bottom of the grid are circled letters "A" through "E" (like multiple-choice exam answers) and every letter goes in like normal except "D" (one of two correct answers to the theme question); instead of "D" you are (apparently????) supposed to write in "SHADE" (even though you do not need "SHADE" *at all* to make sense of either the Down or the Across answer o my god this puzzle is so ill-conceived I don't even know ...). So you "SHADE" in the "D," as you would shade in any bubble on a multiple-choice Scantron-type test.

Word of the Day: EPODE (47D: Classical lyric poem) —

noun

1. 1. 

   a form of lyric poem written in couplets, in which a long line is followed by a shorter one.
2. 2. 

   the third section of an ancient Greek choral ode, or of one division of such an ode. (google/Oxford Languages)

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Another very brief write-up today, as my Michigan vacation continues for another couple of days. It's going great, thanks for asking. Farmers markets and sand dunes and picnics and hikes and camp fires and cocktails and ice cream and everything you could hope for from Michigan. Even the horrible "Don't Blame Me, I Voted for TRUMP" flag hanging outside a house just down the road turns out to be very handy as a marker for figuring out just when our own driveway is coming up. Even the bad is magically good here in Michigan, is what I'm saying. What is not magically good is this puzzle, holy moly. Let's start with the fact that "D" is not the only tile that's worth two points in Scrabble. "G" also has that point value (if google isn't lying to me). So the very question is stupid from the get-go. The question implies (strongly) that there is just one such tile.*** There is not. This turns out to the be the least of the puzzle's problems, but it's still a pretty big problem. Then there's the recurring problem of having instructions and/or questions as your theme answers. Always a total vibe-killer. Not at all interesting to uncover. Especially uninteresting in this case, as the question is misleading in the first place (as we've established) and in the second, what the hell "test" would ever have such a question???? The very idea that you would take any test anywhere at any time that would have such a question is flat-out ridiculous. But the worst is that the "D" "answer" is supposed to be ... not a "D" (which my software would not accept) but ... [SHADE]. LOL how in the world was I supposed to know that? True, PASTEL [SHADE] (40D: Hue such as pale mint or lilac) and [SHADE] TREE (64A: Leafy shelter from the sun) work for their respective clues, but (wait for it, drum roll, etc.) So Do PASTEL and TREE. All On Their Own! Actually, now that I think about it, [SHADE] TREE is at least something I've heard of, but PASTEL [SHADE], yikes, no. I mean, the answer is PASTEL. [SHADE] is not self-evidently missing. Hoo boy. So bad. That [SHADE] / "D" is seriously the worst "rebus" square I've ever seen. Or close to it. And for the world's dumbest, most preposterous "test question." Even the perfect Michigan vibe in which I am currently living cannot make me warmly disposed to this clunker.

ODIC!? As a suffix? It's like the puzzle was trying to invent ways to hurt me. And the spelling on WOOSH, ouch, my eyes (30D: Rushing sound). It's like when people write WOAH instead of the correct WHOA ... only worse. The word is WHOOSH. I use it a lot, primarily to describe the ideal Friday-solving experience (WHOOSH WHOOSH!). Merriam-Webster agrees with me and has many recent examples for you to peruse if you are so inclined. WOOSH just looks anemic and sad. Which I guess is fitting. Gotta get back to more pleasant diversions. See you tomorrow.

Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld 

***if this were an actual multiple-choice question (yes, absurd, but bear with me), the wording would not be "WHAT TILE..." but "WHICH OF THESE TILES..." or "WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING TILES..." and then, with the set being thus delimited, you wouldn't be thinking "But What About The 'G'!!?"

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