Art Browns Owner N Y Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

Constructor: Andrew Reynolds

Relative difficulty: Like shooting fish in a barrel

THEME: "Fast Work" — puzzle celebrating HENRY FORD 's 150th altogether (5D: Business titan born July thirty, 1863) with a tribute to his innovations in mass production, specifically, the Associates LINE (57D: 5-Down innovation). Circled messages are added one at a fourth dimension as you descend the puzzle, going from "M" at the top to, finally, " MODEL T " at the lesser (116A: 5-Down unit). Other assorted theme answers include:

• 16D: Feature of a 57-Down (CONVEYOR Chugalug)
• 62A: Like the 116-Beyond (MASS-PRODUCED)
• 78D: 116-Across, colloquially (Tin can LIZZIE)

Word of the Mean solar day: Chuck LORRE(94D: "The Large Bang Theory" co-creator Chuck) —

Chuck Lorre  (born Charles Michael Levine ; October 18, 1952)  is an American tv writer, director, producer and composer. Lorre has created many of America's hit sitcoms including Grace Under Burn , Cybill , Dharma & Greg , Two and a Half Men , and The Big Bang Theory . Lorre likewise served as an executive producer of Roseanne  and Mike & Molly . (wikipedia)

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Celebrating American capitalism's nigh notorious anti-semite! Huzzah! Happy birthday, buddy.

I've been reading a lot of 1923 newspapers lately and speculation well-nigh a possible Ford presidential run is rampant. But and so Harding dies and Coolidge takes over and there goes 1924. Anyway ... Ford!

This puzzle was very piece of cake and very loose. There'southward no existent revealer, only a lot of theme entries that are confusingly cantankerous-referenced. I estimate HENRY FORD is the closest thing to an anchor in this puzzle, along with the finished MODEL T . Anyway, it's pretty clever, the whole "literally building a MODEL T " aspect of the puzzle. Fill is solid. Clue on LORRE is super-weird—a total outlier, familiarity-wise, compared with every other answer in the grid. You lot can clue Peter LORRE hard, you know? Not that this LORRE isn't worth inclusion. Those are big shows he'due south created. It's just nutty to have a name that unfamous in an otherwise phenomenally piece of cake puzzle.

Really like the pairing of HOMELAND (3D: 2012 Emmy winner for Outstanding Drama Series) and TIMESLOT (83D: Scrap of TV existent estate)—good answers with both rotational and TV-related symmetry. Also like ART MODELL —the fact of the proper noun in the filigree, not the human. I could not intendance less about the human, ART MODELL . He moved the Browns, and then he's usually seen equally a kind of villain, except to people who care nearly the Ravens (the geographically express few). I suppose he's a hero to them. If they can embrace Ray Lewis, they can embrace anyone (95A: N.F.Fifty. owner who moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore in 1996).

I wrote in METEORITE instead of METEOROID , only like you (or virtually of you, anyway) (76D: Infinite rock, peradventure). I loved and was a bit flummoxed by the clue on Slumber Style (73A: A computer may be in information technology). Otherwise, this puzzle offered almost no resistance. I finished in nether 10—Very Fast for me on a Sunday.

Bullets:

• 52A: Texas able-bodied site (ALAMO DOME) — nice answer. This reply helped me change OUTER to the more confrontational OUTED (34D: Exposed).
• 114A: "Feeling Good" chanteuse (SIMONE) — got this easily, though this is not a vocal I acquaintance readily with her. I listen to her a lot. Maybe this once just escaped my detail record collection.

• 47D: He wrote "I exist, that is all, and I detect it nauseating" ( SARTRE ) — lots of great, dyspeptic stuff about SARTRE (and a hell of a lot of other people) in the new book "My Lunches With Orson." Highly recommended.

Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld

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P.South. Rex Parker one time described this crossword competition as "easily the all-time tournament feel I've had to date," if that sort of thing holds whatever sway.

Thanks!

- Brian

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