I should have said no to today's Barry C. Silk puzzle (answers) which would not, of course, have made me a CONSENTING ADULT. I struggled mightily for the second Saturday in a row. Orange found it easier than Friday's but my experience was the opposite. I barely slowed down yesterday. Today was impossible without help, once again making my official solve time infinite. What fun is a hobby that depresses me?
I have no idea what "Lard source" FATBACK means and something tells me I don't want to learn. So many facts I didn't know, and even what I knew I couldn't dredge up. Here's how bad it was. I drove all through the "County west of Dublin" not that long ago and still couldn't remember KILDARE. Depressing.
Once again I'll resort to meaningless statistics in lieu of actual insight. This puzzle uses every letter of the alphabet making it the fourth pangram of the year at the NYT. Only 3.5% of puzzles in my database have that distinction. Now your know.
