I have to also admit confusion over the clue for ETAS, as I’m curious about connection to the Greek vowel η here. I did enjoy the juxtaposition of LOVE YA and YUKFESTS in the lower quadrant as well as some nice misdirecting clues such as for SPIDER, (a “masked capital”) for GUM and for GRR. (Muay Thai is a type of martial art, that according to this page, uses the entire body as a weapon.) So certainly a knee is one of these weapons, but only one in the singular. I do have one nit to pick, and that’s the clue for 31d. An excellent meta, with lots of nice interconnected parts and takes on the meaning of “chain.” What’s left over is indeed a retail chain, TARGET, and our meta solution.

Featuring some of the most popular crossword puzzles, uses the knowledge of experts in history, anthropology, and science combined to provide you solutions when you cannot seem to guess the word. String them together and you see the shared letters, and more importantly, the letters left over that belong only to one entry: The clue 'Vagrant' was last spotted by us at the Eugene Sheffer Crossword on January 31 2019. To mutilate something could also mean to “mangle” it (6 letters!), so I tentatively considered those last three letters as part of the common chain. To “chain” these entries together, I first wondered if the end of one entry could begin the next? Well, “German” was my starting point as my most assured answer, so I wondered if the entry before or after that could share at least a letter with it. , WHERE THE HEART IS – “home” seemed the obvious answer, but short a letter if I was correct on my theory about the numbers in the theme clues , PARASITES – “leeches” was my first thought and happily 7 letters long , MUTILATE – “destroy” and “rip up” came to mind, but neither were 6 letters , FROM BONN – “German” seemed the only possible answer here it was probably at this point that I realized the numbers in the clues likely referred to the length of the word (or phrase) hinted at by the entry , GO BESERK – my first stab here was “lose it” Here I was thinking “hobo”, “vagrant”, or “vagabond”, at first , ITINERANT BEGGAR – so the clue is actually the entry itself. The theme answers are easy to identify as their clues all have an enumeration in parentheses following them however, the clues themselves offer no other insight into the entry: This week, I guess rather appropriately given the season, we are looking for a noted retail chain.

Vagrant crossword clue