![]() The overall grid has pretty solid bones, and GALACTIC and (esp.) WE'RE LOST add a little color. ![]() the part that falls means "behind," *and* comes at the "tail" end of the answer). So the theme wins-makes a tired concept (bend-the-answer) interesting, and BEHIND ends up having a cool double-meaning (i.e. ![]() (I think I'm going to call the opposite of an AHA moment an " AHI moment," as in "Oh … I get it … that's fishy.") This is all to say that when I did, finally, fill in FALLING BEHIND, I did, in fact, have a genuine AHA moment. But I honestly didn't see the connection that all the Downs had until pretty late, because I didn't get the front part of the revealer until pretty late (3/4 done). I could see that the Acrosses made nonsense but the Downs made real words-or, rather, that the Acrosses made sense if you threw in the Down bits. I wasn't having a ton of fun cutting through the grid (even though the fill was OK), and when I saw that BABY AL(BUM) drop I was like "man, didn't we just see this idea? … answers that turn or bend or whatever … this better be good." I had no real hope that it would, in fact, be good.
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