history grad student in me approved of this clue. Another potentially tricky boxing clue that would be George Foreman, getting the Thomas Paine-based pun “Rights of Man.” The former U.S. That S at the end of “Electronics” really changes the meaning, since you might be tempted to think of e-readers like a Nook or a Kindle. 107A: is Prince FIELDER, though he actually used to play first base, and I think still does during interleague games at National League parks.103A: is SHINE ON, a reference to their classic hit “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.” What I learned from writing the clues to this puzzle is that the “crazy diamond” in that title refers to Pink Floyd’s co-founder SYD Barrett, as mentioned in the clue for 121A.As a Bulls fan, I’d been hoping their 72-win regular season record from 1996 wouldn’t fall to the Warriors, but records are meant to be broken and that Golden State team is really something else. It is pretty remarkable to think that crossword constructors way back when researched much of their information from hard-copy dictionaries and encyclopedias, or by calling the public library, and still churned out puzzles all the time. Yet another one of those tools that makes my work (and the work of many, many other writers) far easier than it had been in the past. How much of a flop was it? Well, according to Roger EBERT at 23A. As with the occasional answer SEGA, I was tempted to do a Sega Genesis clue since that’s what I grew up playing a lot, but I thought the pun here worked pretty well. I wonder if people got misdirected to FACET or maybe CARAT if they were thinking of diamonds. I’ve never used it before, but I believe a lot of people in Philadelphia did when the pope came to town last September. That would be a hockey net for the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning. 1A: is MER, the French word for “sea.” Un vice-amiral is the French spelling of “vice admiral,” in case you looked askance at the word “amiral.”.
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