Unfortunately, the long theme entries here are 10s, not 11s, so I'm guessing the bathroom tissue got flushed (sorry).
It was the cleverest of the grid's five long "theme answers" — all made puns off of common phrases by adding an extra "s".
It was the cleverest of the grid's five long "theme answers"—all made puns off of common phrases by adding an extra "s".
This was a fun puzzle to solve, not only because of the squared-off, long theme entries — all three word names or items starting with the letter "B" — but also because of the longer nontheme entries, CINDERFELLA and FLABBERGAST.
We have SPY in both the first and last Across entries, and they very elegantly sandwich (if you can sandwich something elegantly) four long theme entries that all have the abbreviation VS. in them.
I know, it's hard because they are symmetrically spread throughout the grid, but hear me out: even if you can get the long theme entries right off the bat, you will be stymied by the Downs containing circles.
The stories rarely focus on anything more hair-raising than a shopping trip, and they rarely last longer than a few pages: each episode of the much-loved BBC adaptation from 1975 was five minutes long, theme tune and all.
As a lover of science, technology, engineering and yes, mathematics, it is all too easy for me agree with this very long theme.
At 2.30pm, a 40-minute long themed "Question Time" takes place, where members can ask questions of ministers in departments that are selected for questioning that sitting day, such as health and justice or education and transport.
The show's strength, however, is not its one-off stories but its longer arcs, a structural breakthrough of "The X-Files," which modelled the notion that episodic TV could be woven together with powerful, season-long themes, inspiring the more complex breed of modern shows, both sci-fi and regular-fi.
He had also started to make films, and modernization and its discontents was his career-long theme.
