A little cooking, a little sewing, neither of which appear on the junior high curriculum of modern students and seem archaic today, but gave me an hour of fun several times a week.ģ:23 You called it: older female here, as well as amateur baker and sewer, and I sailed through this puzzle. This puzzle will skew easier for the older female solvers, I suspect, since it hit me like a home economics class. The Judge was so kind that the name stuck when Max crossed my path at some point, even though I believe he's way before my time. Of course I may eat my words, not dessert sadly, in the light of day after appropriate I can brag that I knew sporty BAER also, not from crossword fill, but because I had a summer job clerking for a Judge BAER. Sorry, Tracey or Will or whoever clued this. I just don't see RUCHE as a separate piece of fabric used as trim edging. It's been very popular the last few years in the dress trade. To RUCHE is to make pleats or gather the fabric as decoration or, more wonderfully, to conceal figure flaws. I'm not happy with this clue and my resident fabric guru is asleep so I can't ask the expert. Needless to say, I liked this theme ALOT. I would, however, be quite happy to give it another try if it appeared on my plate. It feels very 1950's and I'm not a big fan of merangue luckily since there's an egg allergy in the house. I made it frequently in the 90's.īAKEDALASKA is not a favorite of mine. It's the easiest dessert in the world to make if you buy the lady fingers, but it packs a punch at the dinner party table. I'm the only one in my family who feels this way, but then again I'm the only one who had my grandmother, so I became a devotee at an early age. It's just not Christmas in my world without PLUMPUDDING. I'd much rather ruminate on dessert than anagrams or the ALOU brothers any day. I'm simply seeing it as not a traditional iced layer cake as the menu's sweet. NOPIECEOFCAKE is not a perfect revealer since one dessert is easy to make and two do have cake as an ingredient. Well these LUSH desserts are right up my ALLEY and I love dessert. And, as I say, EMME shmemme ( 61D: J.Lo's daughter with a palindromic name). How is an ® a sign for ™? They are different keys on my keyboard and must mean different things, right? I had ERIN for EIRE ( 68A: Land of Blarney) and DEALS for MEALS ( 53D: "Square" things, ideally) and even getting SIMP from just 66A: Fool was tough. Very hard to pick up " DARE WE SAY" from the back end (which is how I came at it), though I imagine it would've caused me some trouble from the front as well. I've heard of ruching, I think, but not a single RUCHE, so that was rough. I had ice skates and writing implements in my head. Tried to make sense of both "blade" and "pen" and just couldn't.
14A: Blade in the pen ( SHIV) totally baffled me. Like Victorian furnishings-they might be as nice as can be, my eye is never gonna be happy.Ĭlues were tough for me today, at least in several places they were. This is certainly cleverer and cleaner than most Tuesdays. was also alien to me (god save me from another Kardashian klue, or from having to know J-Lo's kid's name !?!?!). I had no idea there was any dessert on the planet that was "aged-for-months." The fill also played out of my wheelhouse, and somewhat old, and what wasn't old. I can appreciate that it would be a satisfying solve for someone even though that someone wasn't me. I think this is a good puzzle that just feels alien to me-me personally. I spent at least a few seconds trying to make A PIECE OF CAKE work in the revealer, if that tells you anything about how much the joke missed me. I see the wordplay here, but since I don't associate these desserts with difficulty (or with much of anything), the joke didn't really land, for me.
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