Today’s theme is gently approachable, just what we want in a Monday crossword, but it seemed to be a touch cleverer than I thought at first glance! Join me for a nice early-week solve. – If you’d like to directly support this channel, consider signing up to my Patreon to receive exclusive bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/dailysolve
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01:53 Today’s solve
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You were right, your piece becomes a king in checkers when it reaches the other side of the board. Checkers is called Draughts in the UK. The name ‘checkers’ unsurprisingly comes from the checkered (chequered in the UK) board. Draughts (drafts in the US) derives from the verb ‘to draw’ or ‘to move’
The GRE is to grad school as the SAT is to undergrad. Hated that test.
Ivory Soap had one of the longest standing slogans, "99 and 44/100% Pure," which was a claim made about the soap based upon a single study. They also claimed for decades that the bar soap was "So pure it floats." It did float, and still does, however it's nothing to do with purity, but rather it is because before being formed into cakes the soap is whipped full of air.
44/100 as a fraction, of course, is expressed as 99.44% as a decimal. I think the clue was just to make it not EXACTLY as usually expressed.
According to the Urban Dictionary, there is an idiomatic meaning for salmon run, but I will NOT be sharing it here. Very misogynistic.
“Look! Upon the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!” Comes from the intro to the 1940’s radio series ‘Adventures of Superman’. Still have never figured out why those first two people were so excited.
It's wild how fun and exciting they made slip and slides look in commercials when in reality it was basically just a vinyl runner that you were supposed to lay out in the grass, wet with a hose, and chuck yourself down. Every lump, bump, and rock in the yard suddenly made themselves very know on the ride down (if not outright tearing holes in the material), and there was also the rude realization that, while you will indeed slip and slide, taking a running dive directly onto the wet ground is not actually all that enjoyable of an activity
Another element to the theme, similar to how you noticed the movements slow down as you progress, but also that the animals get bigger as you progress. (assuming the "cat" is a wild one 😉