OX TEAM sounds really odd to my ears ( 93D: Field-plowing duo). I knew RSTLNE but not in the "right" order, so that was no fun. pourquoi? This kind of Scrabble-f***king baffles me. I mean, it's hard not to love the " Thong Song," so OK, SISQO / ACQUIT you can have, but CASQUE (!?!?!) / QUA, why? The first was baffling to me (and I'm a medievalist) ( 16D: Medieval helmet), and then QUA. And I don't know what the weird "Q" thing in the NE is about, but it's not really worth it.
Maybe go easier on the RE- answers ( REDRAFTS, RESOD, REAIR) and the plural noun brand names ( SERTAS, SNAPPLES). Anyway, it's weird, and given the promising concept, disappointing. Or, rather, that looked *something* like lips, but not enough like lips to be plausible lips. But I ended up with a pair of lips that looked nothing like lips.
It's a great idea, with a great set-up, and the theme answers themselves (the ones containing the rebus squares) are quite solid and interesting. So instead you've got these rebus squares way the hell and gone out there in the NW and SE corners, where they are easier to handle, fill-wise, but where they make the whole lip representation into a mess or a farce or. An arc up top, an arc below, voìla! I am guessing that it was not, in fact, easy to do that in practice, as you'd end up with rebus squares very close to one another-too close to pull it off and keep the grid from being a wreck. What's weirder-it doesn't seem like it would've been that hard to arrange the squares in the grid so that they *do* make plausible lip shapes. So it's like I'm being asked to see lips, but then they aren't there, or they are these bizarre misshapen lips. But *how* can it not be part of the theme? There are two sets of four, just as there are two lips, and they are fairly begging to be connected with a red pen (as I have done above). I can't make them into plausible lip shapes. Unless half of your face has fallen or you're on your side or falling through the air or something. Title is "Sealed With a Kiss," so that tracks, but I'm incredibly distracted by the fact that those aren't lips. I mostly enjoyed solving this one, and was really looking forward to spelling out the RED letters at the end to see what my Valentine's Day message was going to be. įrench composer Claude Debussy included a piece called "Ondine" in his collection of piano preludes written in 1913 (Preludes, Book 2, No. Such a union is not without risk for the man, because if he is unfaithful, then he is fated to die. Although resembling humans in form, they lack a human soul, so to achieve mortality they must acquire one by marrying a human. The group contains many species, including nereides, limnads, naiades and mermaids. Undines are almost invariably depicted as being female, and are usually found in forest pools and waterfalls. Later writers developed the undine into a water nymph in its own right, and it continues to live in modern literature and art through such adaptations as Hans Christian Andersen's " The Little Mermaid" and the Undine of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Similar creatures are found in classical literature, particularly Ovid's Metamorphoses. Undines / ˈ ʌ n d iː n, ʌ n ˈ d iː n/ (or ondines) are a category of elemental beings associated with water, first named in the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. Word of the Day: "ONDINE" ( 51D: Debussy prelude inspired by a water sprite). I did a drawing anyway, just in case (above). I can't tell if they are supposed to be a visual representation of lips or what, but. THEME: "Sealed With a Kiss" - eight rebus squares contain RED, where the fourth letters spell out RUBY LIPS.
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