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I assumed 38D referred to a casino pit, where you might get lucky and win enough money to literally retire early, but Chris' explanation makes way more sense and is certainly the intent of the clue.
Citi Field (adjacent to the former Shea Stadium location) is mainly known for being the home of the New York Mets baseball team in Queens, New York
Here I was thinking “retire in a hurry” could mean to die, in which case pit sort of made sense 😂
The out-of-pocket amount paid by an insured before medical insurance kicks in is a deductible. A copay is the percentage of the cost of a medical procedure that the insured must pay after the deductible is met, e.g., 80%.
IKEA is named after the creator Ingvar Kamprad and the place he grew up Elmtaryd outside of Agunnaryd
"Not Dog" isn't a bad product name idea though.
Robert frost, my favorite poet. “Mending Wall” describes the old New England practice of two neighbors, walking the length of an old stone wall, each on their own property, replacing the fallen stones back onto the top of the wall.
One neighbor muses, “Some thing there is that doesn’t love a wall…”, remarking on the forces that caused the large heavy stones to come away from the wall.
“Before I built a wall, I’d ask to know,
What I was walling in or walling out…“
The other neighbor simply always replies, “Good fences make good neighbors.“
Who else was internally raising their voice for ‘Wade’ Wilson 🤪
i do not read poetry at all and still managed to finish this one
Nice puzzle, but they couldn't include the official poetic form of the New York Times daily crossword anywhere???
April is National (or perhaps international) Poetry Month. Love all the references!
I am not a native speaker and have also never made a crossword puzzle in my life.. no clue why I got this recommended, but did watch 👍
Never read poetry. But I have been called poetic incense. Puzzle EZ.
Inferring from IKEA's colours, I would guess that Kamprad was Swedish, not Norwegian. But still, a Scandinavian cross. 🙂
The plates with names of dead people on them might be called epitaphs, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
So what they grow in Nigeria is a "yam", and what we eat in America is Sweet Potatoes. And they are different roots. For some reason we also call our sweet potatoes yams, but properly they are not.
On PIT, in auto racing, "retirement" is often a term used to describe someone failing to finish a race, so that's a double layer of wordplay. I actually didn't even spot the "re-tire" thing until you brought it up.