![]() ![]() COMA!?!?! You really wanna give COMA the ELOPE treatment, i.e. I audibly yell-groaned in the middle of this one that's how frustrating it was to solve it (this happened somewhere in the NE, where CHIEFDOM (!?!?!) was, and HOORAH ( 22A: "Yay!") was not HOORAY, and where were LANYARDS and not somethingsomethingCARDS, and where (my bad) I forgot the word ARANCINI (which is about the only thing interesting about today's puzzle), and where, finally, I had to endure a cutesy "?" clue for. At least let me get through your badness quickly. let me tell you, bad is one thing, difficult-bad is so much worse. The fact that the themers are unfunny nonsense phrases also makes the puzzle hard, which. what here? Is it supposed to mean "Very"? The Entire Phrase Is Garbage. am I supposed to imagine that is thinking / saying "I am SO NERVOUS that I will have NO SERVICE?!?" The "SO" is doing. What is a "DIVA STORE"? Why oh why is there a "SO" in SO NERVOUS NO SERVICE. Just nonsense phrases, which are made worse by not even being plausible nonsense. You can have a boring title, but to have a stupidly confusing title based on wordplay that doesn't exist. Please please hit your mark with the title. The fact that you tried to get all cute in your title with a phrase that is not even a real phrase-terrible. low? Lowered? Will something be lowered? Will we hear cows lowing? Is this a MOO rebus? Who can say? Worse (and this is the next level of bad), once you're done with the puzzle, or perhaps part way through the puzzle, you will realize that "Gets Low" is supposed to be a spoonerized "Let's Go," and you will be irate for many reasons, but above all you will be irate (if you have any sense) at the fact that the phrase is, in fact, "Ready, Set, Go," not (not) "Ready, Set. ![]() ![]() The "wordplay" (a generous term for what's going on here) is not at all evident, so one is forced to take the words "Gets Low" literally, and perhaps go looking for something. I want to start with the title, which is atrocious on many levels. ![]()
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