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The more familiar and commonly-used clues and fill words, the faster the solve. I think aspects of a puzzle that can make it more difficult for speed-solvers is that of the cluing and fill commonality. I'm guessing finding a crossing word starting with K was considerably tougher. The possessive is always 'its,' sans Eriksson: The reason it wasn't clued as such (which at first glance does seem much better) is because there is no Eric the Red. However, this is an American crossword, and the anecdotal evidence so far is that that particular Britishism isn't widely known on this side of the Pond (a Britishism that is, on the other hand, widely I disagree with your explanation for 'It's game.' It makes sense only as long as you forget that 'it's' is *never* possessive. LOCAL is indeed very common British parlance for one's local pub (people are much more apt to say they're going to their local than they're going to the local pub in fact, people will ask each other sometimes, 'What's your local?'). In a good puzzle, that's a nice challenge. You pretty much had to deal with each area on its own. The only thing I was kinda-sorta impressed with was the grid itself, which allowed very few entries into the corners and edges. Same feeling that this never quite worked, and that (as lit.doc put so well) the cluing was more about obfuscation than misdirection. I felt like I must have somehow borrowed Rex's brain as I was reading the writeup, as nearly everything he experienced I did.

9A: Was in the arms of Morpheus ( SLEPT) - nicely complemented by WOKE ( 35A: Shook out of dreamland).

According to wikipedia, it's the symbol of TEHRAN, and marks the entrance to TEHRAN.

Is this a building I should know for some reason? Ooh, yeah, it's super-cool looking. 45D: Home of the Azadi Tower ( TEHRAN) - interesting, and new to me.61A: Egypt's third-largest city ( GIZA) - a city that I always want to call either GAZA or AGRA.Whole SW was a disaster until I stopped reading the end of 48A as -TCHERED, changed AS TO to IS TO ( 50D: Part of an analogy), and finally figured out the ghastly ERRATIC THE RED. 46A: 'The tongue of the mind': Cervantes ( PEN) - even with the 'N' this didn't come easily.I'd have tried like hell to keep that kind of near-twin crosswordese nightmare from happening. 41A: Destination for a ferry from Livorno ( ELBA) - ELBA and ELBE ( 48D: Hamburg's river) in the same gird.14A: Ward who played Robin ( BURT) - First, instinctively wrote in SELA.I feel this had to be intentional (cluing that suggests LACKEY and, apparently, JACKAL). Second, I had -ACK- and wrote in LACKEY, without blinking. First, I had no idea this was a meaning of JACKAL. 5D: Follower who does the dirty work ( JACKAL) - this killed me.Why do you make a 78-worder (the upper limit), when you have So Much Non-Theme Space to work with? I'm not sure I understand why, when there are only three theme answers of 13, 15, and 13, the grid isn't much more interesting, with fewer, but more interesting words. 48A: Nickname of an unpredictable Communist? ( ERRATIC THE RED).37A: First-rate chastisement? ( SUPREME BERATING).20A: One who plunders boatloads of jack-o'-lanterns ( PUMPKIN PIRATE).The rest of this, fill-wise, feels just ordinary, and the cluing feels like its trying too hard to compensate for that ordinariness. My favorite part was probably the clue on TANKER ( 45A: Ship of fuels). At 78 words and (thus) with no non-theme answers longer than 6 letters (!?!), the grid doesn't hold much interest. and then THE RED is the part signifying his Communism? So he's sort of *all* nickname? THE ERRATIC RED might be someone's nickname. if you call this hypothetical person ERRATIC THE RED, is his 'real' name ERRATIC. The 'nickname' part of ERIC THE RED is 'THE RED'. Was all this forced cleverness an attempt to distract from the really awkward theme? Add-a-'RAT?' Adding-a-whatever is fine when the phrases work, and two are OK, but ERRATIC THE RED makes no sense on any level. EMIT gets you in mind of guns with 53D: Shoot out. EDIT gives you the old 'verb for adjective' switcheroo with 11D: Ready for release. I would call a LOCAL pub a 'LOCAL pub.' Need the 'pub.' Maybe this stand-alone usage of LOCAL is British. If it's got nothing to modify, LOCAL (to me) is a train, not a bar ( 10D: Neighborhood pub). I don't mind trippiness if it's clever, but today it felt forced. That intentional trip-you vibe ran through a lot of clues. MEANT clued as ? In America, we'd say, 'view' being used here solely to try to trip you. Never ever could get a real rhythm going, and most all of the cluing had this weird, ickily off feeling to it. Toughest Wednesday of the year for me (high 6's).

Listing all the particulars crossword clue