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Inert refers to inert gassen, I think. They tend to not bond to other molecules/atoms
Fans is indeed a baseball reference, while “meet” appears to be the form used in the Biblical sense: “it is meet that that …”. I was a bit slower around 33 minutes.
Denis Leary is still with us! Up until a few years ago he was still acting in the Ice Age movies, and more recently he was on telly in The Moodys and Law & Order: Organized Crime.
I would say I had the same relative difficulty with this puzzle as you did Chris, some easy, some difficult but nothing terrible.
Have to thank Catholic school for knowing what concupiscent meant.
And intaglio is a type of engraving technique to make jewelry i believe. No idea how to pronounce it.
Gowning up in bilingual Canada, I can assure that "mercy buckets" is indeed a common corruption of the French.
In Japanese, "dotashimaste" means 'you're welcome". I learned it by remembering " Dont toucha my moustashe" (lol).
I wonder if there is a word that describes this specific sort of language mnemonic.
can cofirm MERCYBUCKETS and INFODEMIC are both debuts. this puzzle had 8 total debut answers which is something i usually only see when there's a theme.
LOL something must be strange about the position of IGOTTARUN because I had GOTTTARUN in there, unnoticed for over half the puzzle.
I'm sure an unintentional slip rather than something you don't know, but Beyoncé was in Destiny's Child rather than TLC.
You might be onto something with the root of the term FANS in baseball, but its usage is as an action performed by a pitcher. You might hear, "So-and-so fanned 8 last night in a dominant performance."
He gets Teleology off the bat…this dude is wearing a ear piece with a dude on the other end with a dictionary…there's just no way. Sorry to "doubt" this guys knowledge, after all, it is the origin of wisdom.
Sounds like you should be apartment shopping with all those noises lol. Enjoy your weekend, Chris.