Companies such as Sprint and Cadillac have used the word bling in their advertisements. "Bling" was added to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in 2002 and to the Merriam Webster dictionary in 2006. This is similar to the meteoric rise of hip hop music itself, which has led to its most popular artists becoming mainstream pop music icons. While the specific term bling was first popularized in the hip hop community, it has spread beyond hip hop culture and into mass culture. It has been SEEN by you ( 50D: Comprehended). I have a long list of the stale fill that plagues this puzzle, but I'll spare you. "Barely serviceable" becomes "actively abusive" in a puzzle that's 21x21. I'm looking at that KIP, PAP, ANEMO-, ADESTE, ASI, CTS corner and thinking "Why!?" Yes, BACK PAY and " YO, DUDE" (both in that corner) are good, but did they really necessitate all that dead weight? Sundays especially, being long, should have many, Many highlights. In this day and age, what with all the tools available to constructors, and with more scrutiny than ever given to puzzles, there's just no excuse for filling puzzles in ways that are barely serviceable. And the short stuff doesn't have to be scintillating, but keep the truly stale and outright gag-worthy stuff to a small handful. I'm begging constructors-try harder! DEMAREST is a massive waste of an 8! You only have so many longer answers-make them count. I've written down "YO, DUDE," NIGHTIES, and BACK PAY as non-theme answers that I particularly like.
#INSPIRIT CROSSWORD CLUE PLUS#
There's lots more non-plural junk as well, and almost nothing sparkly or thoughtful on the plus side to balance it out. A punishing barrage of crosswordese-or worse, often: plural crosswordese: OSIERS, ENOTES, RAYONS, NAES, LEOS, TSETSES, GRRS, OLLAS, TEHEES (!?!?!)-just painful. Then there's the fill, which, collectively, is some of the worst I've seen on a Sunday puzzle in some time.
All the interest is in the clue, but those miss as often as not, and are often forced and awkward. Honestly, the last few have felt dated, stale, and seriously lacking in overall polish. We're into a run of not-so-great puzzles.
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