But on islands? Color me skeptical on that macs - RAGA music is a frequent Crossworld style. A high proportion of humans live near rivers, especially river mouths, for agricultural and trade reasons. I’m also very curious where that factoid comes from because it seems high. Does anyone need more proof than KEY ARENA and CROTON RIVER (cue the anonymous posters explaining why everyone should know the CROTON - For all we know it wasn’t “bygone” when this puzzle was submitted. The PPP seems nicely diverse to me, but juxtaposed with yesterday’s masterclass in fun wordplay just reinforces my notion that wordplay is always better than trivial trivia. Other wheelhouse answers were ARETHA and LYNDE. Being married to a former children’s librarian makes OLIVIA wheelhouse material here, but I suspect that lots of solvers were done reading to children when OLIVIA was winning its Caldecott. I predict a lot of wheelhouse or outhouse comments today because PPP came in at 24 of 70, just over my 33% line. Knowing JAMESON and JANELLE MONÁE certainly helped.
Two minutes faster than yesterday (~13%), so easy here. I found another thing I liked-the clue on ELISION (10D: Something Cap'n Crunch has).
Can we just turn Saturdays into Fridays? Or find a way to achieve difficulty that doesn't sap the joy from the whole solving experience? Either or. I know that the letters of the Greek alphabet are all fair game, and I'm used to seeing them in my grid, but that doesn't mean I've ever stopped resenting being asked to know the Greek letter *order.* What I'm saying is that if you have to use Greek letters, go ahead, but cross-referencing them to try to be cute is only ever going to be annoying. The term " FUNK-RAP" seems really ill-defined and loose-inferrable, for sure (in that everyone knows "funk" and "rap"), but not a very tight / specific genre. If I go to last.fm's list of " top funk rap artists," the first is Digital Underground, but if I look up Digital Underground on wikipedia, the "genres" offered for that group are "alternative hip-hop," "west-coast hip hop," and "funk"." Last.fm lists KMD second among "top funk rap artists"-weird I own a KMD album and did not know they were " FUNK-RAP." You can't even find the word "funk" anywhere on KMD's wikipedia page. I am not hunting this term further because the fact that I *could* find it if I tried real hard isn't a very good defense of the answer. Now I'm searching for it in quotation marks and *still* getting G-FUNK as the first hit. If I search your alleged term, the first hit should not be Some Other Term. when I google the very first hit I get is for G-FUNK, which I *have* heard of. I listen to music and follow contemporary music reasonably closely and I was not aware FUNKRAP was a thing. *this* way!" and I just kept shaking my head " NAH." They were all, "You could look at this word. Anyway, the clues were not enjoyable or convincing today. you'd say there are "babies" in a nursery ( 30D: Nursery contents). I guess"es with BATE and BABES and BEEF HOT DOG. Getting a tough clue should result in a definitive "Ah, OK, right, yes." Not, "Uh. Everything about the cluing, and many things about the fill, just felt off. Is "barber" a verb now? "Please barber my hair, Larry!" Odd ( 26D: Barber => STYLE). BATE? ( 30A: Reduce in intensity) Where do you say that? Besides "bated breath," I guess.
BOYARDEE looks dumb all naked and alone without the CHEF to proceed it. TAMERS are from some bygone idea of the circus (also circuses with captive animals that need to be "tamed" are gross and horrifying). who uses WORST as a verb like this? ( 29A: Trounce) (I had the "W" and wanted "WHOMP!").
Otherwise it's a lot of random trivia like KEY ARENA and CROTON RIVER (is every damn river in America fair game now?) and a lot of cluing that is irksome instead of what I have to believe was the intention, which is merely "difficult." It had this weird old-fashioned vibe, like. Oh, I guess I liked SOCIETY PAGES too ( 20D: Bygone parts of newspapers with local gossip). JANELLE MONAE is the only thing about this puzzle I really liked ( 7D: Grammy-nominated singer who made her on-screen film debut in "Moonlight").
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