![]() I had SEAR- and couldn't think of any English words that would fit there, LOL. Everything else was familiar, though I weirdly had trouble early on with SEARCH, CREW and HERESY. I try to think about the Bidens (and all national political figures) as little as possible, and I especially don't think about their kids, so this ASHLEY person was news to me ( 48D: Daughter of Joe and Jill Biden). It keeps whispering things like " PUDGY" and " OBESE" at me. But this is all my own particular baseball pathology and has not much of anything to do with the puzzle, which, as I say, is just fine. This made me wonder if maybe TRUCK was wrong and the Major-leaguer was PEEWEE (Reese?). well, I figured they wanted an actual player, a particular guy, not a type of guy. My brain is so oriented away from the YANKEEs that I couldn't make sense of 69A: Major-leaguer who wears 49-Across at home even with -KEE in place. The other theme answers are also nice, though they degrade slightly as you descend the grid, with PINSTRIPES being (to this non- YANKEEs fan) the least interesting of the bunch. Anyway, patience is always an option, when driving or. Growing up in California, the idea that I would hate driving would've been unthinkable. Man have I come to hate driving over the years. Once you are "here," then the rules are very clear. ZIPPERMERGE tells you precisely where to start the merge. ![]() It's nice to have the whole situation just be orderly, so people can relax and not freak out about whether it's "fair" or not. Nobody, literally nobody, is a *better* version of themselves when behind the wheel of a car, and people hate lane closures anyway, so everyone headed toward a merge is already inclined toward irritability. Free-for-alls will inevitably result in cascading bad behavior, because, as we've established, people are frequently awful and driving only makes it worse and driving in close quarters with no clear guidance. The amount of erratic, aggressive, unpredictable behavior I've seen in and around "early merge" situations is astonishing. (for reasons neatly described in the Word of the Day definition, above). I like ZIPPERMERGE best of all, both because it's got, well, zip, and because I love ZIPPERMERGEs and wish they were a much, much more common thing in the U.S. The revealer is cute, and the theme answers themselves are colorful and interesting, which means the journey to the revealer is not a programmatic and boring one. This is a fine "first words"-type puzzles. Research shows that these dangers decrease when motorists use both lanes until reaching the defined merge area and then alternate in "zipper" fashion into the open lane. Zipper merging, however, benefits individual drivers as well as the public at large. This driving behavior can lead to unexpected and dangerous lane switching, serious crashes and road rage. When most drivers see the first “lane closed ahead” sign in a work zone, they slow too quickly and move to the lane that will continue through the construction area. When a lane is closed in a construction zone, a zipper merge occurs when motorists use both lanes of traffic until reaching the defined merge area, and then alternate in "zipper" fashion into the open lane. PINSTRIPES (49A: *Design on some baseball uniforms).BUTTON MUSHROOMS (38A: *White pizza toppings). ![]() ![]() SNAPDRAGON (26A: *Garden plant that opens and shuts its "mouth"). ![]()
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