I don't like TASE because it evokes police brutality specifically, but Arjun's email gets into greater detail about the term: I got an email from reader Arjun Byju the other day about this word, which I'm going to quote at length, because it's so clear and smart. The only real objection I have is (and continues to be) to TASE, which I find increasingly (and aptly?) jarring. " I'VE HAD IT!" keeps some of the same energy as the longer answers, but the rest is mostly just adequate. ![]() Outside the grid-spanners, though, this one is a bit limp. I no-looked the answer, having crossed it a bunch of times before ever bothering to look at the clue. " I WON'T MINCE WORDS" also has a nice colloquial quality. I'm quite sure Gen-X (and older) folks know it well. I wonder what the age cut-off is for " SMOOTH MOVE, EX-LAX" being a super-familiar "putdown to a klutz." Ex-Lax still exists, so there's no real reason the slang should be "dated," but it definitely is, so. This puzzle has two very worthy marquee answers. I mean, I get one bookish thing right away and it's RAND? Yuck. It's true that "Fasti" is minor work for him, but still, I should've known, and instead I was like ". I also forgot that OVID wrote "Fasti" despite having taken an entire course on Ovid and having written on him and everything. Whatever song it is, weird to find out lyrics you just thought were lyrics were actually a famous literary quote. ![]() ![]() And yet here it is, blocking the song I want to remember. I think I heard it once in a brewpub in Los Angeles last week, and I haven't thought about it since. Anyway, I've got "The High Road" by Broken Bells in my head and it won't leave, and I have no idea why. That ever happen to you? You want to remember a song and you try to say the lyrics to yourself but then all of a sudden whatever tune is in your head segues into "The Macarena" or something? It's awful. There's another song in my head blocking the song I want to remember. So far the main thing this puzzle has done is drive me crazy trying to remember the pop song I know that contains the lyrics "All good things are wild and free," which I only just learned, from this puzzle, is a Thoreau quote.
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