Gripes about today's Times puzzle
Feb. 14th, 2008 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuThe theme was, perhaps, not entirely unexpected. But:
I'd never heard of "♥LINE" for {Palm reader's reading}, and for the longest time I want this to be a double-rebus with [LOVE]. Especially since the crossing gave me trouble: "OPEN♥ED" would have been fine for me, but I don't think I've encountered "OPEN♥" as {Symbol of generosity}. And despite the recent concerns about what's suitable for the Times, I guess {Kind of surgery} would still have been over the line. (Not over the "♥LINE", of course...)
And with thirteen theme entries in which the symbol ♥ stood for the word [HEART], it threw me that the fourteenth theme entry was "♥HS".
Anyway, just felt the need to vent (-ricle).
I'd never heard of "♥LINE" for {Palm reader's reading}, and for the longest time I want this to be a double-rebus with [LOVE]. Especially since the crossing gave me trouble: "OPEN♥ED" would have been fine for me, but I don't think I've encountered "OPEN♥" as {Symbol of generosity}. And despite the recent concerns about what's suitable for the Times, I guess {Kind of surgery} would still have been over the line. (Not over the "♥LINE", of course...)
And with thirteen theme entries in which the symbol ♥ stood for the word [HEART], it threw me that the fourteenth theme entry was "♥HS".
Anyway, just felt the need to vent (-ricle).