JAIL TERM

by Raz Kelper on August 14, 2012
Time: 17:03
Difficulty: 4 / 10
Quality: 6 / 10
Theme: JAIL TERM - I don’t really know.
Theme answers:

• 17A: Like an inmate’s dislocated shoulder? (OUT OF JOINT)
• 58A: Con’s writing implement (FELT TIP PEN)
• 10D: Cartes du jour (BILLS OF FARE)
• 25D: Allowable (PERMISSIBLE)

Oops, no bullets today. Sorry guys, because I just deleted the page, and I have to play again to get the clues. And it’s very complicated. As the scores might change, I decided not to put bullets in this one. This crossword only.

I’m no mafia, and I don’t know these terms. Then I checked on Google Dictionary, and 2 of them are slang terms of prison. I didn’t know prisons have so many slangs. Last time, someone made a video about rapping 100 slangs of money, and they really are 100 slangs.

Out of joint seems scary, and I have never used a felt tip pen. What is that? Is that even close to a fluorescent pen? Well, I have to use it to know it. And shouldn’t cartes du jour be a menu? How should it be related to a prison? Well the only useless fact that I only know about prisons is that in the 1997 Canadian horror film “Cube”, every character is named after a prison. Alderson, Quentin, Kazan, etc. The movie was not that good, but at least better than its sequels.

We have no word of the day so just skip to the next section. This is the first time that I see a variation and the correct spelling in the same crossword. (In this case, it’s RANEE and RANI) I don’t know why does every crossword editor puts an Arabic word in it. But I think this is just a fit of a crosswordese. Talking about crosswordese, let’s talk about poetic terms. EER, OER, SAYST. They’re all from poems. Notably from Shakespeare. So remember kids, the less the crosswordese, the better the quality. (The quality of my crosswords: -1)