I Never Want to Be Young Again Gogol Lyrics

Constructor: Derrick Niederman

Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium ("Medium" just because of "JUDY IN DISGUISE," my god, talk about a deep cutting, you can't even proper name the band, no, no you can't, trust me, no one has heard from them since 1968)

THEME:  "Playing the Hits" — "Hitting" songs are clued by way of give-and-take "play":

Theme answers:

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  "SHE'S NOT THERE" (23A: THE LADY VANI____ (#2, 1964)) (The Zombies) (this is the best clue of the lot, by far: "SHE'South" is literally not in that location, i.due east. it has disappeared from the cease of the Hitchcock title, which is in fact well-nigh a disappearing lady)
• "I'LL Be Around" (29A: BILLE (#three, 1972) (The Spinners) (standard cryptic cluing: "I'LL" with "BE" around (i.e. encompassing) it.
• "THE Ability OF Beloved" (36A: xº (#1, 1985)) (Huey Lewis and the News) (variable "x" raised to the ... well, power of love, i.eastward. zippo)
• "DEVIL Inside" (60A: VAUDEVILLIAN (#2, 1988)) (INXS) ("DEVIL" is "inside" the word "Vaudevillian")
• "LET'S Go CRAZY" (71A: LOST, East.Grand. (#i, 1984)) (Prince) (clue is an anagram of LOST, East.M.; "crazy" is standard cryptic crossword anagram indicator)
• "JUDY IN DISGUISE" (93A: CHAN_E _PPEA_ANCE TO CONCEA_ __D MISLEA_ (#1, 1968)) (John Fred and His Playboy Band) (!?!?!?!?!?) (the clue phrase means "disguise" and the missing letters in that phrase spell out a famous Judy, namely GARLAND)
• "RUMOUR HAS Information technology" (101A: TITTLE-TATTLE (#sixteen, 2011)) (Adele) ("tittle-tattle" is "rumour," and it contains (or "has") "information technology" inside it)
• "COME ON EILEEN" (110A: ENTI CEMENT (#one, 1983)) (Dexys Midnight Runners) (no apostrophe in "Dexys," weirdly) ("enticement" is a "come up-on," and in the inkling the "I" is "leaning")

Word of the Day: "JUDY IN DISGUISE"(93A) —

" Judy in Disguise (With Spectacles) " is a vocal that was a hitting for theLouisiana-basedJohn Fred & His Playboy Band in tardily 1967. The song was jointly written and composed by Fred and bandmate Andrew Bernard. // The song features strings, brass, a sitar, piano, bass, guitar, drums, breathing sounds, and dissonant string sounds. Its championship is a play on, and amondegreen of, theBeatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". (Fred idea the lyrics were "Lucy in disguise with diamonds" when he first heard that song.) // The other members of the Playboy Band did not like the unusual slow precipitous ending with Fred intoning the final line, "I judge I'll merely have your glasses." (wikipedia)

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[Actress Garr]

Well you tin't deny that " JUDY IN DISGUISE " was a "hit" in its 24-hour interval, equally it went to #ane, but wow, has any #i vocal sunk so far, so completely out of public consciousness as that 55-year-old song. I had the IN DISGUISE function and could remember only Elvis's "DEVIL IN DISGUISE," which plain wouldn't fit. And ... John Fred & His Playboy Ring!?!?! This is literally the kickoff I am hearing of that band's name (I actually know the song, equally I listened almost exclusively to oldies stations when I was in loftier school). All the other songs in this puzzle are familiar to me. Many are iconic. Just " JUDY IN DISGUISE ," hoo boy. Not at all coincidentally, the JUDY section of this puzzle was by far the hardest department of this otherwise easy puzzle. I had DIASTOLE instead of SYSTOLE at 88D: Rhythmic part of a heartbeat, and I have never in my life heard of NOPEST (99A: Brand of insecticide strips), and I have no thought who this JOANNA person is (93D: Protagonist in "The Stepford Wives"), and somehow *all* of those answers intersect or adjoin JUDY. Looks like NOPEST has appeared two other times, in 2012 and 2009. So I guess I accept technically seen it before. But it left no trace. But allow'south back upward, zoom out, and consider the theme equally a whole. Uh, it's kinda crummy. Lots of subpar cryptic clues posing as word "play." The " JUDY IN DISGUISE " inkling, unfortunately, has the almost convoluted of the clues. I couldn't even see that the hidden JUDY was "Garland" considering I thought the missing letter in the first discussion was "C," i.e. I was reading the clue Risk APPEARANCE TO CONCEAL AND MISLEAD. And so that "JUDY" clue was truly doing everything information technology could not to endear itself to me. Didn't particularly like that it used the same missing-messages gimmick that the " SHE'S NOT THERE " clue used. I couldn't even see that the "I" in 110: ENT I CEMENT (#1, 1983) was "lean"ing because my software doesn't render italics in the clues. Luckily, I know the song " COME ON, EILEEN " exceedingly well, then my solving was not impaired.

The word VAUDEVILLIAN is completely irrelevant to the answer "DEVIL Within." The other clues at least brand full apply of the words they incorporate. Why is information technology VAUDEVILLIAN and non just VAUDEVILLE? [BILLE] (29A) is totally meaningless equally a standalone entity. Sigh, it'due south all simply a little also. Too twee, too cutesy, too bygone, too bad-mannered. Also, I feel bad for people who are, uh, young, as some of these songs, wow. You have to have been there. Or be the child of someone who had been there. Practise Millennials (and younger) know The Spinners? The Zombies? Do you all fifty-fifty know Huey Lewis and the News? I accept no trouble with any of these acts, or their songs, being in a puzzle, just since they're all themers, this i seems pretty generationally exclusionary. The songs are by and large in my sweet spot, but that won't be true for many folks younger than me.

RINGY ? (52D: "One ___-muddied" (Ernestine the operator's catchphrase on "Express mirth-In")). Ppfpfweewwfppppppfffft, speaking of "younger than Gen 10," hey kids: retrieve Ernestine!? And her catchphrases!? Over again, to be clear: love love love Lily Tomlin, no problem with her and her characters being in a puzzle, only this puzzle has already anchored itself really strongly in a bygone time. With *this* theme, I'd've tried to brand as much of the rest of my puzzle current (or at least generationally neutral) every bit I could. But instead it's Ernestine and an old Santana hit (118A: "___ Como Va" (Santana striking)) and an even older Tony Randall yellowface role (97D: 1964 Tony Randall championship office = DR. LAO ), and not a lot of current stuff to balance those answers out. Otherwise, the grid seems reasonably make clean, if not peculiarly scintillating (the grid structure doesn't leave a lot of room for longer not-theme answers. Outside of two long Downs ( Almost Face, KISSIMMEE ), yous get a few 7s and a few 8s and that's it. LIME KILN seems bizarrely arcane, albeit ultimately inferrable (109A: Furnace for calcium oxide production), and POULT  (26D: Young chicken, e.g.) ... well, I had POULE, which is French for "chicken." POULT seems pretty technical. But, once again, gettable. The problem today was simply that the theme clues were loose and bedraggled. And " JUDY IN DISGUISE " was a real head-shaker, even for me, a person who has heard the vocal earlier. I hope yous plant more to similar than I did. I find that if I simply focus on " Allow'S GO CRAZY ," such that the song starts playing in my caput, I experience pretty adept. Give information technology a attempt.

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