With more than 800 bins of bulk candy, 300 types of soda pop in glass bottles, dozens of Jelly Belly jelly bean varieties and retro candies you never thought you’d see in stores again, b.a. Sweetie bills itself as the largest candy store on the continent. Sweetie Candy Co.’s 40,000-square-foot retail warehouse complex in Cleveland, the budget is history, and it’s not just the kids who have a tough time showing restraint.įeaturing more than $3 million worth of inventory, b.a. ![]() Blow the entire allowance on blue raspberry rock candy or save a couple dollars for Reese’s mini cups?īut by the time you wheel into aisle two of b.a. With fragrance, dahlias would truly be the perfect flower.North America’s largest candy store would seem the sort of place where a mother can teach her children about the realities of budgeting. Solved, you get DAHLIAs, some of which are blooming lavishly in my small garden right now - they come into their own in the early fall. That L in BROI LERS is part of this little circle, and it’s also the first letter in that difficult entry, LIA. At 19A, we have N ACHO at 22A, ET D 24A, HON, short for honey and at 27A, of course, we have BROI LERS. ![]() My favorite bloom in the world, probably, is the next one we encounter. V-I-O-L surround the blossom’s center then L runs down with E and T, vertically, to form its stem. Work your way around from the left, clockwise - V-I-O-LET - and notice that these letters are arranged to form a flower. Then un peux de français, fortunately pretty basic: “Her” is E LLE that bold L is also the first letter in 26D, LET (did anyone watch the French Open finals?). Below it, at 20A: EN V, short for envelope at 21A: “Have debts” is to OWE. At 17A, the only deep voice that fits in this entry, we have BAR ITONES. Let’s look at the northwest side of the grid for our first example, circled letters in bold. Some of us have another four sets of circles, while others have four sets of gray boxes these are all arranged in vertical pairs running down from those sets of four circles, almost like lollipop sticks, or stalks holding up snail’s eyes … or something else, which we’ll come to.Īs we solve the puzzle, we gradually fill in those circled and shaded squares. We have four sets of circled boxes, themselves arranged in circles around a single black square. The theme layout is a bit different depending on where you’re solving. ![]() A lot of M’s around here, with AMINO and AMALGAM nearby. (And don't mind the difference between ovens and stoves as far as I can tell, most people use them interchangeably, although I would be interested to hear if this is a regional thing.)ģ8A: I thought of “yum!” first - MMM is one of those bits you kind of have to solve backward - once I had RAMP and AMMO, I had to settle for MMM. Instead, go for the BROILERS inside the stove, not on top. Since I hadn’t determined what the circles around the boxes meant yet, I thought there might be a blank space that would allow this answer to work. Tricky CluesĢ7A: I got stuck on “burners” here (no pun intended). Some toughies in the fill, and some interesting and creative entries, contribute to the gratification of figuring everything out. Even though there is a two-part revealer that provides a hint, you have to do some visual and literal deduction to find your hidden set of theme entries. This is an intricate-looking grid that presents a good challenge, mainly because the key to “getting” it isn’t laid out for you in the clues. MONDAY PUZZLE - Joe Hansen is a 2020 addition to the constructor pack his only other Times puzzle until now was back in April and similarly offbeat.
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