72A: What you might inadvertently get if one of your three wishes is a Wii? - GE NIE WHIZ.54A: вЂњFor the love of all that is holy, PLAY YOUR HORNS!вЂќ? - BLOW DAR NIT.40A: Evil part of a musical - SI NISTER ACT.23A:В Start drawing the Marvel antihero also known as Frank Castle? - PENCIL PU NISHER.While I liked the puzzle, I didnвЂ™t quite get the theme until I started writing up this post: ItвЂ™s a Sunday-sized grid with plenty of interesting and challenging fill that took me nearly 20 minutes. This weekвЂ™s AV Club puzzle is a beast, you guys. Rock Me AMADEUS!Д®rik AgardвЂ™s AVCX crossword, вЂњIf I Had a NickelвЂќ - BenвЂ™s Review Oh high-waisted jeans, I do not miss you.ДЇinally, Falco is one of my guiltiest pleasures. I donвЂ™t know if I had a pair, but I definitely remember them: Some of the shorter fill wasnвЂ™t great (ATRAS, MINOT, OUSE),В but the theme and longer fill make up for it. SNIPERSВ and RELOADSВ are good longer fill, but seemed a little trigger-happy together in such a playful puzzle. for WIRETAP,В with the neat twist of a more electronic clue for the insect and a more insect-related clue for the electronic device. The cluing was pretty solid, especially 10d. I canвЂ™t help but chortle at the thought of a kernel of corn perched at a podium on one side of the courtroom, with a giant piece of broccoli wearing robes and a gavel yelling at the boss (who may or may not be a French fry) for not bringing documentation about why the corn was fired. FOOD COURTД®ach of the theme entries brought a smile to my face, and while I donвЂ™t think of SPLIT PEAS as a side by themselves, theyвЂ™re all common food phrases and the wordplay is consistent. Tying the theme together is the central answer, 34a.They dish out some piping-hot edibles wordplay in todayвЂ™s puzzle: If Judge Judy and VeggieTales combined their creative teams for a new side-dish legal arbitration show, Jay Kaskel and Daniel Kantor could write the pilot. NY Times crossword solution, 10 28 15, no 1028 Jay Kaskel and Daniel KantorвЂ™s New York Times crossword-ErinвЂ™s write-up Overall a fun puzzle keeping us in the spooky spirit until Saturday gets here. DonвЂ™t know Tris Speaker or his nickname GREY EAGLE.Could not remember CARY GRANT as being the вЂњNotoriousвЂќ star (duh!).For example, WITCHY, BOO, EERIE, and a host of spooky clues ( 28D for example: for IRISH). There were a lot more Halloweeny clues and entries in the grid than yesterday.I found this similarity a bit distracting. But in the last two a hard-C sound changes to a G: cool to GHOUL and coast to GHOST. In the first two themers,В course becomes CORPSE with the introduction of a P sound, andВ race becomes WRAITH courtesy of a lisp. But I wish there could have been a little more consistency. Those are all pretty groan-worthy puns, so YMMV depending on how much you like puns. I wish the constructor could have used a zombie pun instead. It is more real than any other themer since a corpse is not actually a monster. Taken without the clue, the entry definitely does not pass the breakfast test. This theme answer is gruesome and not in a fun, Halloweeny way.

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