Gripes about today's Times puzzle

[rhu]

The 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).

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

How did you get the ♥ to appear in your post?

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I brought up Windows Character Map, scrolled to the portion of Unicode where the symbols are, copied character U+2665 to the clipboard, and pasted it into the entry box.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

You can also use character refs like ♥ (♥). Or ♇ (2647).

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Didn't they remove ♇ from the UCS-2 block and demote it to the "dwarf glyph" surrogates block?