![]() Then I hit onto what is probably the weirdest opening solving pattern I've ever had on a Saturday. I guess you can DISTRESS lots of stuff, but you probably don't ACID WASH anything but denim, right? Early '90s denim? So I was wrong there, but knew I was wrong when no Downs worked. I had DISTRESS instead of ACID WASH right out of the gate ( 1A: Make look old, in a way). ![]() Mostly it's all ROSE CEREMONYs and MOONROOFs. But there just aren't many moments like that. I do hate DO TO A TEEEEEEEE (both that spelling and that phrase in general) and crossing it with HES? ( 8D: Drones and such). But all the other longer stuff seemed nice. Anyway, that one prompted a squint-eyed suspicious glare from me. Bathurst, 1796-1877." I doubt those were the kind of eyes the clue was going for. When I google roughly half the hits are for some hymn: "Jesus, Thy Church with Longing Eyes" by William H. Also BLUE, LYIN', SNAKE, ITCHY WATERY, BEADY, CROSS, and BETTE DAVIS. Is there a famous instance of that exact phrase? BEDROOM EYES, I've definitely heard of. LONGING EYES felt wibbly-wobbly ( WAWA-wobbly) to me. This one's got a nice variety of answers, from a broad cross-section of knowledge bases, and it feels very modern, which I always like (OK I don't *like* SELFIE STICKs, but I like that this puzzle *sees* them, knows they're there, and, I assume, sneers at them the same way I do). I had to struggle a good deal, but not in ways that I ended up resenting (the way I will when the fill is hyper-obscure or downright awful, or the cluing is suspect or downright awful, etc.). Locarno divided borders in Europe into two categories: western, which were guaranteed by Locarno treaties, and eastern borders of Germany with Poland, which were open for revision, thus leading to Germany's renewed claims to the German-populated Free City of Danzig and mixed ethnic Polish territories approved by the League of Nations including the Polish Corridor, and Upper Silesia. The treaties were also registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on the same day. Ratifications for the Locarno treaties were exchanged in Geneva on 14 September 1926, and on the same day they became effective. The Locarno Treaties were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland, on 5–16 October 1925 and formally signed in London on 1 December, in which the First World War Western European Allied powers and the new states of Central and Eastern Europe sought to secure the post-war territorial settlement, and return normalizing relations with defeated Germany (which was, by this time, the Weimar Republic). Word of the Day: LOCARNO( 36D: Swiss treaty city).
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