Featuring more than brands, along with its own private label , Sephora offers beauty products including makeup, skincare, body, fragrance, color, and haircare. I got the theme pretty early, but even knowing what was coming, I still had to fight in each section to find the three-letter month abbr. This puzzle was like 12 mini puzzles, which has the virtue of novelty, if nothing else. After uncovering my first month, the only real Surprises left involved finding the precise square for each rebus.
But you knew what you were looking for and you knew where to look, every time. And there are no other calendar-related answers, so the whole thing plays a bit like a themeless, actually. The fill gets quite iffy in places, but for the most part it holds up, and the rebus answers are often delightfully creative.
Fun stuff. The themers, though, I really liked, on the whole. They taught me a couple of new things. I still don't have all the world capitals memorized. It is coastal. Holy moses, have you seen Gambia on a map? Second of all, it is of an amazingly eely shape, essentially following from the Atlantic back along the contours of the Gambia! River, surrounded on all sides by Senegal, until it reaches a place called "unnamed elevation" on the map I'm looking at. If the only thing I remember about today's puzzle is the location and insane shape of The Gambia, it will have been worth it.
Oh well. Happy continued New Year. It's pretty magical, and not only for sentimental reasons. Save And Share :. The Gambia is smaller than Conecticut and has the same number of people as metro Indianapolis. Almost as painful as doing 12 mini-puzzles. Ludyjynn - I always get those two mixed up. I did watch Cybill, mostly because I thought Zooey was really cute.
Never watched Moonlighting. Medium-tough for me too for the reasons Rex covered. Pretty impressive construction. Nothing really edgy, just a very solid Sun. Liked it. Today's was top drawer: "I am a New Yorker, and 7 a. The southwest was the toughest section. Neither of us knew the ugly MSRP manufacturer's suggested retail price. All in all, we had a lot of fun solving these 12 mini puzzles. This was enjoyable enough. Agree with the 12 mini-puzzle comment from Rex.
