I loved NIN JA WARRIOR for its liveliness. WHADDA YA KNOW at 33A was a bit tougher for me, because even though it’s slangy, I typically spell it “whaddya know.” As always, your slang mileage may vary. I hit the rebus button, typed in GAB to make the entries BU GABOO and TALKIN G ABOUT, hit Enter to put it in that single square, et voilà! One CHATTERBOX, neatly filled in. So I knew something was up, and you always have to trust your cruciverbal Spidey sense. So hang in there.Īnyway, I knew that 6D had to be BUGABOO, and I already had TALKING OUT at 17A, which didn’t really make sense. Now, a mere 120 months later, I am spotting rebuses like a champ. All I knew was that I couldn’t fill in my puzzle even though I knew some of the answers, and I was starting to get irritated.
When I started this job, I was completely rebus-blind. I caught on at the crossing of 17A and 6D, the first rebus I encountered, and I am honestly chuffed about that. There are three rebus squares in this puzzle and, if you are not sure what a crossword puzzle rebus is or how you should enter more than one letter in a square on the web or in the app, please read this article about exactly that subject. What if we put all that CHATTER into a BOX and closed the lid? That’s one way to quiet things down. Perhaps there is something we can do about it. However - there’s always a however - we now know it, and it’s a happy word. As such, ‘cachinnare’ is much like the Old English ‘ceahhetan,’ the Old High German ‘kachazzen’ and the Greek ‘kachazein. The word derives from the Latin verb cachinnare, meaning ‘to laugh loudly,’ and ‘cachinnare’ was probably coined in imitation of a loud laugh. “Cachinnate has been whooping it up in English since the 19th century. However, according to, the word is not as archaic as I thought: It is entirely likely that it hasn’t been seen much anywhere else. It has not been seen in the New York Times Crossword for nearly 50 years, and then only twice. Yes, it is probably going to register as obscure to a majority of the solving audience. An ACORN is something to “squirrel away.”ġ1D. This clue sounds as if we’re supposed to be thinking about plain things that are not “fancy,” but we are really borrowing the Britishism for “like.” The clue “Not at all fancy?” is a hint at the entry HATE.ħD. Sometimes - especially in a clue with a question mark - it’s the direction on a compass, and “The right way?” could mean EAST.ġD.
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