And there's very little way in the way of junk fill, which so often mucks up early-week puzzles. Reminded me of some of the best Mondays I've done: smart, simple, clean. The building was damaged in 1940 during air raids and it became a Grade II* listed building in 1951 after it reopened.
THURSDAY JANUARY 5 2017 CROSSWORD SERIES
In 1898, a niece of Cons, Lilian Baylis assumed management and began a series of Shakespeare productions in 1914. It was taken over by Emma Cons in 1880 and formally named the Royal Victoria Hall, although by this time it was already known as the "Old Vic". Established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, and renamed in 1833 the Royal Victoria Theatre, in 1871 it was rebuilt and reopened as the Royal Victoria Palace. The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Word of the Day: OLD VIC( 24A: Venerable London theater). BULLETPROOF VEST (37A: Protection for a police officer).COCKTAIL HOUR (20A: Time before dinner for socializing).or an apt tit le for this puzzle) - answers begin ("lead") with MALE animals:
THEME: MAL E LEADS (57A: Certain H ollywood s tars. LOLZ - I thought "lulz" was the preferred.
Channing FRYE - unless you are a pretty serious basketball fan, you don't know who that is.INCOG *and* COHAB!? What is happening? AGAZE? O, man, no. Eventually, the number of non-word / abbr.-words got downright comical. I wasn't out of the NW before I was saying "Oh, no, this is gonna be bad." When you can't get out of a corner on a *Tuesday* without ABU and Dan bleeping ISSEL, yikes. But the (much) bigger problem was the fill. IN A BOTTLE is a very weak revealer, and the whole theme feels like an interesting concept that got destroyed on execution. I did something like this once with an ALL IN revealer, but ALL IN is a stand-alone phrase, and in my puzzle it preceded a lot of other phrases, not just the first / last word. IN A BOTTLE!? Revealers can't just be random phrases. Also, SIR BARTON!?!? But whatevs, let's say those are Greeeeat answers and get to the two big problems. That "K" was the last letter, and there were a few seconds in there where I thought "O my god I'm going to get Naticked on a Tuesday" (I may even have said this out loud, hang on. Let's leave aside the fact that I have no idea what FORKED LIGHTNING is. This was brutal, as my wife can attest, as I could hear her laughing from the next room at my groans and profanity.
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