68A: Seven-year stretch (teens) - wow, that's good. It was the reference unit for the old measure in Scotland. #ESSE DRIVING SCHOOL EDINA PLUS#
Although suggestive of the forearm alone, British practice corresponded to the whole arm plus some fraction of the chest, hence a yard or more. Here's a def:Īn old body measure based on the human arm.
55A: Unit a little longer than an arm's length (ell) - mmm, arcane measurements based on assumed standard lengths of body parts. "Pit" is a pretty grandiose word for such a little place. 48A: Residue locale (ash pit) - is this a thing? Is it like a fire pit? Oh, it's just the area underneath a fireplace hearth. 44A: Glass-encased item in "Beauty in the Beast" (rose) - that image is weirdly iconic even *I* remember it (not a big fairy tale fan). 31A: Poetic work by Tennyson (idyl) - wanted "MAUD" there's such a thing as knowing too much (or so says this book I'm reading, which is fascinating, but which sadly shares its name with a Carnie Wilson memoir about her gastric bypass surgery). 25A: Field for Dem Bums (Ebbets) - The Brooklyn Dodgers. Hard to get that "AO" combo in English be inventive! 23A: Part of the mailing address to Oral Roberts University (Tulsa, OK) - I like this. 15A: Eddie's character in "Beverly Hills Cop" (Axel) - AXEL Foley. Gore VIDAL also wrote mysteries under the name "Edgar Box," back in the 1950s. 14A: Gore who wrote "Lincoln" and "1876" (Vidal) - very nice cluing. 1A: Kansas City university formerly known as College of Saint Teresa (Avila) - needed crosses to guess this one, then felt stupid as I know this saint's name very well (from grad school) and her most common appellation is "Teresa of AVILA". I can't even look at EX-GI without wincing. RIPON? ( 29D: Wisconsin town where the Republican Party was born) EX-GI?! ( 7D: W.W. reject more Tuesday-ish puzzles)? Today's puzzle is solid in many ways, but the theme is kind of lackluster and some of the fill is a bit forced (esp. OK, about Tuesday puzzles, which I have complained about more than any other day of the week: I heard from a constructor that the times has an 8-9 month Tuesday backlog!? How is that possible? And if it's so, why not raise (high) the bar for Tuesday quality (i.e. 59A: Carillon call? (a peal to the crowd). 17A: Retired general? (a resting officer). Kakuei _), and I was completely stymied in the N and NW for a while, so the "theme" remained mysterious for much of my solving experience. Throw in TANAKA, which I have never seen or heard of ( 6D: 1970s Japanese P.M. There is a British unit of volume or weight, which is ever farther down the list. The definition of "LAST" is "A block or form shaped like a human foot and used in making or repairing shoes." It is, as you might guess, very very far down the possible meanings of "LAST" in the dictionary. I know they still exist, and it's an important (and dying) craft, but still, "cobbler". 
objets d'art." Ugh.ĤD: Cobblers' forms (lasts) - the very word "cobbler" makes me laugh. PS this is the second definition of VIRTU, the first of which is "love or appreciation for. nothing about it says "art," nothing about it says "plural," no one but no one uses it ever. I have this weird sense of déjà vu, like maybe I've complained about this word before, or at least seen it before, but. and here I thought I knew something about art. This is due almost entirely to the NW corner, which held the key to unlocking the theme (such as it is), but also held two words that left me agape and agog, even after (eventually) I solved them:ĢD: Objets d'art (virtu) - I. Yesterday's Monday took me as long as a Tuesday and today's Tuesday took me as long as a Thursday (mid-6s). what sound like common phrases starting with "a"-words are actually phrases in which "a" is being used as an indefinite article
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