![]() Wanted TAX AUDITORS instead of IRS AUDITORS (which is my bad-"tax" is in the clue-but TAX AUDITORS does outgoogle " IRS AUDITORS" 3-to-1). I actually really like MERCH (5A: Stuff for sale at concerts), and (even though it slowed me right down) LEGS DIAMOND. With Gusto.ĪPA ADE ELOI ANO INT OTYPE :( Things just aren't working today. If you're going to do something that iffy, go all in and clue it. BEAHERO!? ( 42D: Come to the rescue) Yipes. Pretty maddening how poorly executed this theme is. Coulda done stuff with, DIGIT, CUBIT, LEGIT, ORBIT, PERMIT (!?! why is that word in this grid!? No "IT"-enders in non-theme words! That's just sloppy), PULPIT. I don't understand why the CAN IT and POST-IT answers didn't get clues related to those actual, stand-alone terms (when STOP IT did get such a clue) and I don't understand why BANDIT is so sad and alone when it's the only one that's actually doing its job, i.e. And then there's BANDIT, which is the outlier of outliers, being the only really interesting version of this theme (where "IT" is added To Create An Entirely New Word). But then POST IT, which is only a thing when hyphenated, is (like CAN IT) clued in a way that takes it away from its familiar meaning (here, just "put something on Facebook"). CAN IT is a phrase meaning STOP IT (?), but it's clued as "put stuff in a can." STOP IT is a phrase meaning STOP IT and it is clued. First, you can put "IT" on the end of seemingly infinite phrases, so who cares? Second, there is Zero consistency to how the "IT" addition, and the cluing, are done today. In 1930, Diamond's nemesis Dutch Schultz remarked to his own gang, "Ain't there nobody that can shoot this guy so he don't bounce back?" (wikipedia) A bootlegger and close associate of gambler Arnold Rothstein, Diamond survived a number of attempts on his life between 19, causing him to be known as the "clay pigeon of the underworld". Jack "Legs" Diamond (born John Thomas Diamond J– December 18, 1931), also known as Gentleman Jack, was an Irish American gangster in Philadelphia and New York City during the Prohibition era. Word of the Day: LEGS DIAMOND( 25D: Gangland rival of Dutch Schultz). EMILY POST IT (48A: "Miss Dickinson, put your poem on Facebook"?).SHORT STOP IT (38A: "Enough!" as opposed to "You quit that right now!"?). ![]()
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