THEME: first word of phrase is the name of a pro from a sports franchise
GOOD ONES: Serious lapse for a Missouri player? CARDINAL SIN [from the Cardinals]
Luggage for an Ohio football player? BROWN BAGS [from the Browns]
Investment return for a NY basketball player? NET PROFIT [from the Nets]
Magazine insert AMMO [bet you want to shoot yourself if you missed this one]
Bee's relative OPIE [that's the way they spelled her name on the
Andy Griffith Show]
High anxiety? ACROPHOBIA
BTW: Reception room for a Texas hockey player? STAR CHAMBER [from the STARS, but you can't without confusion call a player from the team "a Star": "A Star was on Kimmel last night." However, I liked the reference to the medieval court and 20th Century movie.]
Fox hit since 2002, familiarly IDOL [yeh, I'm cool; I use only one word of a title --- and I call Robert DeNiro Bob]
In the upper right quadrant we have ISHAM (Mark) and PELEE (geographical point), and in the lower left quad it gets worse: we get APOLO (Anton) crossed with ILENE (Chaiken) and OPORTO (city of Spain). I'm not a fan of using unfamiliar proper nouns depending on each other for a solution. Seems like lazy construction.
RATING:
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun
