Thursday, October 21, 2021 - PARKOUR, Anyone?

Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword

A fun Thursday crossword from Michael Lieberman, with a clever theme - a series of vertical answers, each two words - and they make sense only if you observe that the word on the bottom is under the word on top. For instance, 24D, Give a sworn statement in court, is OATHTESTIFY, and reading this (vertically), the phrase is, literally, TESTIFY under OATH. We also had 3D, Clueless about current trends, AROCKLIVING, 17D, Choke, PRESSURECRACK, and 8D, Take more shots than, THETABLEDRINK. Clever, and the theme is instrumental in readily solving the puzzle. There were a few other very amusing clues, 27A, Things you saw while asleep?, LOGS (oh, that kind of saw), 33A, Noodle container?, SKULL (ha!), and even 52A. It may be used to get away from a bank, OAR, was amusing. In short, a great puzzle, we give it a 5 squares on the JAMCR scale.

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