4/15/2023 0 Comments Home of the brave crossword clue![]() ![]() I had a little laugh when I realized DESPOT was a stand-in for THE SPOT. X MARKS THE SPOT sounded out (pseudo-)phonetically at the starts of themers. I hope you enjoy the wordplay, whatever level of solver you ARRR! Thanks to Will and Joel, who excised a couple of "uglies" (my term) in the west and lower Mississippi, and greatly improved on my clueing. ![]() The addition of ISLE was serendipitous, and ARRR was deliberate (I was hoping for a September 19th publish date). With the option of going to MARXANDLENIN available, I saw that the perfectly synonymous BUCCANEER did the trick. OLDSEADOG crossed nicely at the S in DESPOT, however, I had trouble finding anything that would work with the MARX BROS. ![]() After filling the grid I noticed that the two long downs each crossed at only one theme entry, which gave me some flexibility to relate them to the theme as well. Upon reflection I changed that to TREASUREMAP, which seemed to be more apt. Originally 29-Across was MARXBROTHERS, and the reveal was PIRATEBOOTY. How many other entries could I find that start with a letter written phonetically? It probably wasn't very fruitful because I somehow zeroed in on the phrase "X marks the spot" instead, and saw that if I used EX, MARX and DESPOT I could, with a little poetic license, mimic that phrase. The idea for this puzzle came when my MacBook word-of-the-day screensaver featured the term ex post facto, which I immediately saw in terms of theme possibilities.
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