![]() Also, redundant-don't all GURUs basically give "advice"? Recent examples from the web (at M-W.com) include a "fitness guru" and a "Democratic PR guru" (!), and I can name a few self-styled "financial gurus," but ADVICE GURU, uck and yuck. Had the GURU and thought "hmmm what kind?" and then I needed Many crosses to get. Here is where things started to clank a bit: ADVICE GURU? ( 52A: Expert with tips). I got past the two blockages by riding FRONT ROW SEAT down to the bottom to TANSY and BUSY and building back better :( from there. No idea what I put in it, but I'm pretty sure it would be horrifying / embarrassing and that most time capsules should, like the dead, be left in peace. I don't remember any BURIALS, and I don't know which reunion year got to open it. But I could not then, back when I was mid-solve. but an "event," no I couldn't imagine what that was supposed to be. EL NORTE was easy enough, but BURIALS, yeeeeeeesh, that was probably the hardest answer in the puzzle for me ( 22A: Time capsule events). ![]() But then my whoosh was also interrupted in a much more wide-open part of the grid, as I tried to get into the NE corner from the upper middle. Really hate when grids have such tiny passageways between sections. And since that "E" was a choke point-no SE access. Also, I wasn't *completely* sure that PRO RATE was PRO RATE and not PRO RATA. For some reason, after THIS SIDE UP, my brain was out of ideas. ![]() Could not get into the SE because I couldn't parse THIS END UP (29D: Instruction on some packages). There were two major flow issues for me today. And so it was with my puzzle: whooshing down, clawing my way back up. I think the Sibyl said something like that to Aeneas before he went into the Underworld. The second half of my solve (the SE / NE) was somewhat less thrilling. "Jump, you coward! Jump!" But no, instead of jumping, BUNGEE JUMP just pushed the SEAWEED SALAD over the edge instead. I liked that SMOG ALERTS was up in the air (with the smog?) though BUNGEE JUMP should probably have been plummeting rather than just sitting there up top. I especially enjoyed the SOUR GRAPES HORSE OPERA that sent me soaring down the west side of the grid. Some nice whooshing around the grid via vibrant longer answers.
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