![]() ![]() ![]() It's not that "old" answers are OK and "modern" ones aren't." - methinks you doth protest too much. (Also Melinda May is one of the starts of Agents of SHIELD, and an easy to infer.) I know you specifically say in your write that it's "not just a generational thing. And those are both pretty big properties - Grey's has been on for 16 seasons Marvel is just a juggernaut. June Cleaver was for people older than me. Melinda May and April Kepner were there for people my age and under. I'm pretty sure most people under 40 don't know her. I am 40 I know who June Cleaver is SOLELY because Nick at Nite used to play Leave It To Beaver when I was a kid. if you start seeing more puzzles made by women." - that was pretty sexist, Rex. ( MGR.) - tomorrow was supposed to be Opening Day. 64A: Academic's "and others" ( ET ALIA) - nah, we use the "et al." shortening like the rest of y'all, trust me.CUDDLES UP just seems cozier to me than CURLS UP, which is a phrase I can imagine preceding the words "and dies." Nobody CUDDLES UP and dies, is what I'm saying. ![]() Usually don't see rebuses on Wednesdays, but sometimes you do. I got to this answer very early, got the "CU-," wanted only CUDDLES (UP), and figured that there must be some kind of rebus going on. 3D: Gets cozy ( CURLS UP) - possibly the hardest part of the puzzle for me.if you start seeing more puzzles made by women. But from here on out, you should not remain unfamiliar with OPI, because it's a genuinely popular brand and. if you are unfamiliar with the OPI nail polish brand (which provides the "P" cross here). Seems like it could be pretty tricky, esp. but it looks like you can get JICAMA slaw at Luna's Tacos in Greeley, CO. I like that it sits next to LUNA BAR (another good answer-is there a JICAMA LUNA BAR? There is not. Maybe because it seems like a food item that is super familiar in my real life, but that I can't remember seeing in crosswords much, if at all. 45D: Mexican root vegetable popular in salads ( JICAMA) - I don't know why I love this answer so much, but I do.The rest of the grid is more than good enough. But again, the concept is sound and the reveal is cute. It's that there are so many ways for people of all generations to know MARMEE MARCH and JUNE CLEAVER (whose TV show is now old, yes, but who is an iconic TV mom on an TV show that's practically synonymous with a cultural phenomenon, namely white suburban conformity)-whereas you pretty much have to watch the TV shows in question to have any idea who APRIL KEPNER and MELINDA MAY are. It's not that "old" answers are OK and "modern" ones aren't. Slogging through marginal names, never a great feeling. This jarring contrast between the iconic "roles" of MARMEE MARCH and JUNE CLEAVER, on the one hand, and the more recent TV roles, on the other, took some of the joy and delight out of the solve. Not terribly hard to put together MELINDA (it's a common name), slightly harder to get KEPNER (familiar, but. This is all to say that I got the "spring" thing early (w/ MARMEE MARCH), so I could infer the month parts of the unknown names fine, but the other name parts were a total crapshoot, which slowed me down considerably. I am aware of their existence, but do I have a complete knowledge of all of their casts lists and roles? I do not. I have much better reason to watch "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," since it's a Marvel property and I teach a class on comics, and yet. But aside from the fact that "Grey's Anatomy" is a medical show that takes place in Seattle, I got nothing to tell you about "Grey's Anatomy." I know that I was *startled* to find, recently, that it was still on the air. and I'm almost certain it was created by Shonda Rimes, whom I *definitely* know. I think there's a doctor on it who was in that teen movie "Can't Buy Me Love" in the '80s. I somehow exist in an ecosystem where noone I know seems to watch, let alone talk about, "Grey's Anatomy," despite its being a long-running popular show, so the actress, the role. I thought this was very clever, though two of these names were completely unknown to me. Back-to-back solo women constructors! In the regular flow of puzzles, and not part of some "let's publish women for a change" gimmick! Huzzah. ![]()
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