![]() It's definitely the name for those things you wash dishes with, but I think I just call them "dishwashing pads" or I don't call them anything. Weird to me that SOAP PAD is a thing since I don't think I've ever called it that ( 20A: Brillo offering). Struggled with LUM, even though every part of her damn name(s) has been in the puzzle before (most often cluing NORA, I think) ( 31A: Nora _ a.k.a. I resent being stumped by a "?" clue and then having the answer be a damned corporation, so the clue on MICRO, though clever, can go jump in a lake ( 8A: Soft opening?). I was subjected to SUH-WEET again (twice this month?!), but fool me once etc. It's too bad that the long Downs are tangled in a bunch of ambiguous sludge, because they're fine, particularly GOING ONCE (29D: Presale alert?), which is maybe not the greatest standalone answer, but the "?" clue (again, hard as hell) works really well, and gave me that same "oh nice" feeling I had after getting ARM HAIR. But this is its third appearance in the NYTXW, so I guess it's a thing. SAW TO before SET TO down there as well ( 58A: Got busy on). It's really hard to get excited when the you are struggling *and* so much of your struggle is coming around answers that are ambiguous in this way-a CRAPSHOOT kind of way. See also GAH, which I had as UGH and BAH before getting anywhere near GAH (44A: "Blast!"). This is one of those _SAT phrases where I have no idea what's supposed to happen in the blank. There's ERHU, sure, but it crosses HITS AT (37A: Tries to swat). So even though I think this theme rules, my experience was more slog than joyride. Unfortunately, it's also the corner with the most unpleasantness / unlikeable things. or at least an amplifying effect, helping to make the SW corner the hardest section By A Longshot, such that it is almost all I remember. But it's never been in the NYTXW before, and my knowledge of Chinese stringed instruments begins and ends with the zither and the KOTO (the first and only thing I wanted, despite its having many more than two strings). It's a real thing alright, and not a bygone one either. This is not a knock on the validity of ERHU. that kind of difficulty is less thrilling. Difficulty that comes from a two-string instrument I don't know and have no hope in hell of spelling. When difficulty ends with a revelation like *that*, I'm thrilled. Just a great repurposing of a familiar phrase. I sincerely thought "damn, that's good," in the moment, as I was solving. Scratch that "had to admit" sounds like I was grudging, and I wasn't. But then I worked some crosses and finally got it, and after being so mad at that clue. I had the ARM part and still no bleeping idea. Let me talk about toughness I loved, first: that clue on ARM HAIR (22D: Tricep curls?). Weirdly, ended up being mostly overshadowed by other, tougher parts of the puzzle-by toughness in general, and a toughness that was achieved. I discovered the gimmick early (not hard) and. Well the theme is really clever and I admire it a whole bunch. ![]() As a very versatile instrument, the erhu is used in both traditional and contemporary music arrangements, such as pop, rock and jazz. ![]() It is the most popular of the huqin family of traditional bowed string instruments used by various ethnic groups of China. It is used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles and large orchestras. The erhu ( Chinese: 二胡 pinyin: èrhú ) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a Southern Fiddle, and is sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle. Word of the Day: ERHU ( 28D: Two-stringed Chinese instrument). THEME: Double duty - familiar compound words & two-word phrases are clued "_ / _," with the blank being a potential synonym for both parts of the words / phrases:
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