I'm not really sure how difficult the puzzle was, as I did it on paper, untimed. I'm still waiting to hear back from a certain lazy, song-writing Texas lawyer. I've got 2/3 of my weekend guest-writers lined up. Maries, Idaho, so I'm out of here at 4:30am tomorrow, and will be back with the Monday puzzle on the 17th. My grandmother is having her 90th birthday party this weekend in St. I think "more easily" is the phrase you'd want if you were actually saying this (absurd) phrase. 53A: Simplify things at a ricotta factory? ( WEIGH WHEY EASIER) - is this even grammatical? There may be gray area here, but "EASIER" is a comparative adjective.45A: Whitecaps next to an underpriced beachfront property? ( WAVES BY BUY) - almost as painful as the first one.34A: What quilting farmers do? ( SEW AND SOW).23A: Really wet grass expected tomorrow morning? ( DEEP DEW DUE) - the best, by a mile.17A: Instruction to an overexcited Frenchman? ( WEE WHEE MONSIEUR).But mainly this is just a groaning pun puzzle, propped up by scads of shortish dreck. GIA, ENS, RES, EES, SSTS, EPS, OTTS and AMELIAS and AHEMS and FRAS (how many "things that aren't naturally pluralized" are you gonna shove in here?), ENV, ENO, ETTA, AHS, SSW, OH I, HTS, IZE, ALERTo the puzzle's credit, there is virtually no obscurity, and there is some sassy stuff like FOUL-UPS ( 12D: Bobbles) and REVVING ( 37D: Gunning) that I enjoyed. Again, a small handful of the following would be just fine but I count 19 on the following list, and I gave a bunch of borderline crosswordese (ELI, OISE, AERIE) a pass: What I won't buy is the "OOXTEPLERNON'S dinner" of short bad fill (OOXTEPLERNON is the god of short bad fill who first manifested himself in this puzzle from last October see my comment at 10:18am). I guess the fact that it sits in the center gives it some leeway.
I don't understand why the central theme answer is inconsistent in form - I mean, it still has the double-pun, but the puns aren't adjacent, as in the others. The first pun was so painful that I had trouble finding the will to go on - WEE WHEE is supposed to be an "instruction?" "W" and "WH" are pronounced the same? - though thankfully, the remaining answers weren't as awful.
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