Between the length and tediousness of that damned clue, and the fact that NUMBER is what follows NATURAL, WHOLE, RATIONAL, and IMAGINARY most readily in people's minds, I give this theme a 10 for technical accuracy but a 2 for joy. I'm sure that what it says about INTEGERs is true, but this adds nothing to the pleasure of the solving experience. I look at that Eternal clue on the revealer ( INTEGER) and my head hurts. Something about SEA ROVERS (?!) and STOMA and NEC provided enough resistance to keep things plausibly Wednesdayish, but I'm guessing most people who time themselves will find themselves on the fast side today. I've heard from at least a couple people already tonight that they set personal Wednesday records with their solving times on this one, but it played only *sort of* easy, not very easy, for me (*last* Wednesday's was very easy-record-settingly so). Its NEC Semiconductors business unit was one of the worldwide top 20 semiconductor sales leaders before merging with Renesas Electronics. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as just NEC. NEC provides IT and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and to government agencies, and has also been the biggest PC vendor in Japan since the 1980s. NEC Corporation ( 日本電気株式会社 Nippon Denki Kabushiki Gaisha ) is a Japanese multinational provider of information technology (IT) services and products, with its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Word of the Day: NEC( 32D: Japanese PC maker). IMAGINARY FRIEND (55A: Hobbes, in "Calvin and Hobbes").NATURAL DISASTER (17A: Tsunami, for one).these are adjectives that (when they precede "number"?) do what the INTEGER clue says they do. Total laughfest crossword clue report this adDisclaimerĪll intellectual property rights in and to Crosswords are owned by The Crossword's Publisher.THEME: INTEGER ( 37A: The first parts of 17- and 22-Across are always this, the first part of 46-Across is sometimes this, and the first part of 55-Across is never this) - first parts of themers are NATURAL, WHOLE, RATIONAL, and IMAGINARY, respectively.Shoppers sometimes thump them crossword clue.1990 comedy about a kid accidentally left behind while his family went on vacation: 2 wds.Yoga pose demonstrated three times in this puzzle? crossword clue.Greta Thunberg, by nationality crossword clue.NYC home of van Gogh's "The Starry Night" crossword clue.Letters on a Banana Boat bottle crossword clue.Word that comes after "steam" and "tire" crossword clue.
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