![]() Sounds as if it could be a bedroom farce. Based on Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werthers ( The Sorrows of Young Werther). Great start, an opera that just about everyone recognizes and a strong pun. Whether puns are humorous or comic is beyond the purview of this write-up, therefore we shall assume that they are indeed funny. Anyway, the theme here is puns involving the titles of operas, for the most part namedropping the composer in each clue. Three stars would be entirely passable, but I’d like to be a little more engaged by a puzzle in order to go with 3+ stars.Įmily Cox and Henry Rathvon’s Sunday crossword, “Comic Opera” - pannonica’s reviewĬomic opera ( noun): opera of a humorous character with a happy ending and usually some spoken dialogue (1762)Ĭomic opera ( adjective): not to be taken seriously (1906)ġ45 years? Wow. This means I really haven’t got much to talk about today.Ģ.9 stars. Don’t recall noticing anything truly grievous, either. ENDURABLE MOTONEURON DETRAIN DOADEAL ENROOTS? Meh. I don’t recall any clues or answers that were particularly noteworthy. Malia is about to turn 14 and is much less accomplished than the late Trilling, but she has way more Google hits. Lionel is the outlier in this theme, as someone whose name you don’t pick up by going to school and reading the newspaper. I have a favorite Trilling and that is Calvin Trillin, whose last name actually isn’t the same at all. CALVIN COOLIDGE, MALIA OBAMA, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, GEORGE STEINBRENNER, ANN LANDERS (as well as her twin, Abigail Van Buren), and, LIONEL TRILLING. There’s really not much to say about this crossword, is there? It’s a trivia theme, gathering six famous people who were BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY and thus have a birthday coming up on Wednesday. NYT crossword answers, 7 1 12 "Yankee Doodle Dandies"
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