And I have never heard it called YANKEE SWAP - it’s White Elephant where I grew up (Midwest) and where I live (mid-Atlantic). ![]() Meanwhile, the clues for BE ALL, ADOPT and RESHIPS were super-hard. I often say that PPP helps me, unlike most commenters, but ARTIE, HICK and KAT were unknowns, though the last was inferrable with crosses. Very whoosh-whoosh zoom-zoom for me too, except the brutal NW, where most of the downs felt ungettable to me. But that doesn't make as good a story as finishing with THUD. Actually, I never even saw the clue for THUD. ![]() It was like one big " OH, NOW I SEE!" Down to the SW, over to the SE, right up the BRUNCH MENU to finish with a (pleasant) THUD back up in the NE. I plunged down and cascaded through those other corners, flooding them with answers, overwhelming even answers I didn't know ( ELISE) or partially forgot ("Is ALI an ALI or an ALY?"). The momentum of this three-answer long-Down drop carried me through the entire rest of the puzzle. Futzing around, getting nowhere, and then. ![]() it's like the slow climb of a roller coaster. acceleration, where I start by hacking awkwardly at the first section, grumbling about "too many '?' clues!" and what not, and making faces at things I don't really know ( HICK) or have tried to forget ( BABY SHARK). This puzzle had the buzz and verve and energy I want on Fridays, and above all it had that great feeling of. YANKEE SWAP is a sex thing, right? Oof, yeah, definitely a sex thing, you are not going to want to google that, trust me.* But back to the grid experience-zoom zoom zoom, whoosh whoosh whoosh, all over the place. It's always tough to have THE TALK with your kid, especially about the YANKEE SWAP (4D: Christmas party game).
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