John Westwig is a software engineer in Seattle.
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Jim here, sitting in for Jeff Chen who is making a game-saving CATCH in the World Series.
There used to be only two questions about ear piercing: how much will it hurt, and should I ask mom for permission or forgiveness? Now, you need to decide between industrial, helix, forward helix, rook, DAITH, inner conch, outer conch, tragus, anti-tragus, upper lobe, and standard lobe. (See chart here.) Oh, go for all of the above.
Saturday clues can be amusing even when they're not hard. "Phrase that's often contracted … or suffix for something contracted" is clever and memorable. Sometimes they pull memories from deep in your past. At one time, you knew pocketful of POSY, but if you don't have kids, you haven't heard that in a while.
As always, your personal experience can help or hinder your solve. I live in Seattle, so I'm unlikely to be fooled by "Washington can only mean DC," and I have much familiarity with SEA-TAC. If you live on the east coast, that might be trickier.
We use METONYMs so often that it's easy to forget they're figures of speech. No, the White House didn't literally make a statement, but hearing that it did doesn't sound weird at all.
Crossword clues don't have to always be true. Sometimes true is close enough. Only a tiny wee itsy fraction of IOS APPs are products of Apple Inc, but a few are, and, especially on a Saturday, that's fair game.
NENEH Cherry explained that Buffalo stance is "an attitude you have to have in order to get by. It's not about fashion but about survival in inner cities and elsewhere."
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