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Opera character whose first name is Floria / THU 9-1-22 / Symbols used for tagging / Juicers use them / Mocktail with a rhyming name
Constructor: John WrenholtRelative difficulty: on the easy side, I think
Theme answers:
- TWO TIMES (21A: Cheats on)
- FIFTEEN (23A: What comes after love)
- TRIPLED (40A: Didn't quite make it home, say)
- PLUS ONE (54A: Date for a party)
2 x 15 x 3 + 1 = 91
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I enjoyed this one for its long Downs. The rest of it, I enjoyed somewhat less. The first problem was a technical one, which is that my software doesn't do italics so it put all the theme clues in "quotation marks," which made them much harder to interpret somehow. "What comes after love" ... I thought this was some kind of adage, but then I just ended up with a tennis answer (from the scoring progression: love, fifteen, thirty, forty, ad in, game). The whole time I'm thinking that the quotation marks have some ... meaning. But they're just italics substitutes. Not a big wrench in the system, but a wrench nonetheless. And yet even if my clues had been formatted perfectly ... you're asking me to do math, which is like asking me to draw on my crossword when I'm done with it, which is to say: this Better Be Good. As far as I'm concerned, every crossword has a "solution," and it's just ... the finished grid. This extra math stuff had better lead somewhere! And where it leads is NINETY-ONE ... [cough] ... which *I think* supposed to make us think of NINE / ONE or 9/1 or September 1, which is today's date. The only reason I arrived at this logic is because of the clue on DAY (42A: The 2 in 1/2, e.g.). Otherwise I might still be wondering what NINETY-ONE has to do with anything.
Strugglewise, the very worst part came inside the "solution." That is, since there is no real clue on NINETY-ONE, I had NINET- and when NINETEEN wouldn't fit, I got some end letters and decided that the answer was NINE TO ONE. This felt so right that I never even saw that an actual number, NINETY-ONE, would fit there. Compounding this problem inordinately was the clue on GEYSER (5D: Jumbo jet?), a "?" I could not make sense of to save my life, esp. since I was staring at GEOSER. Made me doubt GIG (5A: Short-term employment), but I couldn't get around it. Made me doubt EDEN (13A: Land next to the Land of Nod), which I thought was maybe ADEN (!?!?!), but still, stuck. Even when I pulled the "O" and looked at GE-SER, I couldn't see how any English word went there. I knew the clue was a fakeout clue, so I thought that instead of an airplane, the "jet" in question was ... the color black. "Jet" is a common synonym for "black" in the literature I teach, so that was my go-to Other Jet. But no, we're dealing instead with a "jet" of ... water. Great. Again, if the "solution" had been magnificent, if there'd been real pay-off, then my stupid struggles would've been forgotten as I marveled at the concept and execution. But instead I'm left with a NINETY-ONE trying to sell me on the idea that it's 9/1. A less-than-ideal conclusion.
As I say, I enjoyed the long Downs, though NADA COLADA is a pretty corny name for a drink (31D: Mocktail with a rhyming name). I guess that's what they're calling Virgin Coladas now, since the whole "virgin" thing has begun to feel inappropriately sexual and (thus) maybe a little creepy? Anyway, the "rhyming" part sure helped. Speaking of creepy, not sure why you'd want to evoke a (presumably sexual / romantic) student-teacher "relationship" with your clue on RATIO (44A: Relationship with a statistics teacher?). I guess it's "a" statistics teacher, not necessarily "your" statistics teacher. Still, that's how the clue read to me. Obviously literally the relationship is merely a mathematical one, but the "?" on the end of the clue feels like it's winking unethically at me. Seems like WINE FRIDGE should've had an abbr. or shortening signal somewhere in the clue—the term WINE REFRIGERATOR is the one I know—but I really like the clue, so ... it's OK (3D: Vintage appliance?) (nice bending of the word "vintage" here). Someone might order cannabis "by OUNCE"? That clue doesn't quite work for me, for obvious "the"-lacking reasons (22D: Someone might order cannabis by this). My [Biz bigwig] was a CEO at first, of course, and I could not get to the MUST of MUST-READS from the clue, which says only "recommendations" (8D: Bibliophile's recommendations). A "recommendation" is not a "must-read." If I "recommend" a book to you, I am not saying YOU MUST READ THIS! We've just let hyperbole take over everything and sometimes it's a drag. Worst drag ever. See you tomorrow.
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