Even before film, Sherlock Holmes was depicted on stage. William Gillette gets credited for using the deerstalker cap and curved pipe when performing as Holmes. He even formulated the line "Oh, this is elementary, my dear fellow," which you could argue was the progenitor to the classic line "Elementary, my dear Watson."
I would define whataboutism as deflecting a raised concern by raising a supposedly more important one. "You're upset about the state of US health insurance? What about the starving children in Africa?!" On a more fun note, 'sesquipedalia' can be defined as "a very long word" and hence is autological!
SESQUIPEDALIA (one-and-half feet long), I would use the adjectival Sesquipedalian for any entry in a grid that was over ten letters long. Putting that rarely used word to good function. Also this being the last NYT Saturday crossword puzzle of the year. How about that?
"Beat It" and "Man in the Mirror" crossing each other had to have been done on purpose
I wrote "man in the middle" quickly like you did and it took me forever to figure out why i couldn't get the southeastern part of the grid.
Even before film, Sherlock Holmes was depicted on stage. William Gillette gets credited for using the deerstalker cap and curved pipe when performing as Holmes. He even formulated the line "Oh, this is elementary, my dear fellow," which you could argue was the progenitor to the classic line "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Kong red balls are a “undestroyable” by dogs made of really dense rubber
Frequently hollow for inserting treats.
I would define whataboutism as deflecting a raised concern by raising a supposedly more important one. "You're upset about the state of US health insurance? What about the starving children in Africa?!"
On a more fun note, 'sesquipedalia' can be defined as "a very long word" and hence is autological!
SESQUIPEDALIA (one-and-half feet long), I would use the adjectival Sesquipedalian for any entry in a grid that was over ten letters long. Putting that rarely used word to good function. Also this being the last NYT Saturday crossword puzzle of the year. How about that?