No one calls Mercury a 'world.' It's called a planet because there is no life there. If someone referred to Mars as a 'world,' we'd expect them to be thinking that there are some kind of things on the planet that have a relationship.an interaction.that qualifies it as a 'world.' We may send probes to Mars to explore that 'world,' but since it's just rocks, dust, and there isn't any life on it, it's just a planet. The 'world' refers to everything that exists and is interacted with.flora, fauna, mountains, oceans, deserts, etc.all located on a planet. 'World' is a human-centric idea, Earth is a planet but it is also our world, but not all planets are worlds. Think of a Venn Diagram where PLANETS is a set and WORLDS is a set. Fingering cohorts to avoid becoming a jailbird. SING feels deliberate, like you’re purposely getting someone in trouble. (Speaking of numbered days… I saw a meme on Facebook to this effect: “Enjoy your day” sounds friendly and benign. Lie/Lay Distinction – spoken English reigns, and your days are numbered. I’d feel like a jerk if I said I’ve lain here long enough – time to get moving. LEAVES UNSAID sounds oddish, but not as odd as the word LAIN. A barfly just languishes quietly on his regular stool. Wait - are you a barfly or a lounge lizard? A lounge lizard reeks of Polo and has one too many buttons unbuttoned. Funny the critters we choose for our place/people metaphors. But you can also be a MALL rat or a beach bunny. Liked GYM RAT sharing the grid with ODOR. But I see that planets could be included in someone’s “world.” I might’ve been happier with anagrams of “earth.” This clue was very true for 1989, but in 2019, nonononono. Actually, they're trying to figure out what its future is, because it will not continue on as a MALL, that's for sure. Our MALL is quickly turning into an abandoned building. All over the country, MALLs are falling apart, losing anchor stores as people increasingly shop online, etc. Have you been to a town with a MALL lately? Hoo boy, no. The answer that most irked me though, both because it cost me time and because the clue was just wrong (actually, it cost me time because the clue was wrong), was MALL (53D: Development that might compete with a downtown). I just kept expecting those letters to arrange themselves into something familiar, but because they looked insane (starts 'T' ends '-ASS'?), I had to keep filling in crosses. TDPASS was hard for me to parse, but it's clear I didn't really read the clue while solving ( 10D: Six-point accomplishment for a QB). '?' clues should really yank you off of the expected path. I get that 'doing heavy lifting' is a metaphorical phrase that is being used literally here, but. Not sure why GYM RAT even had a '?' clue, given that its clue was pretty literal ( 43D: One doing heavy lifting, informally?). I felt run down by the EEK ATIT URSA UAE IDA ERIE onslaught-no one answer particularly terrible, but en masse, ouch. In the end, it's a weakish theme with an incredibly tepid grid. ' WHO ME?' crossing ' AW, MAN' crossing a '?'-clued GYM RAT? I mean, we're not talking Saturday-level difficulty here, but for a Tuesday, I was very very slow through here. It's trying to be repeatedly colloquial, in a very tiny area, which made things dicey. The whole SW was a nightmare for me because I had no idea what kind of RECRUITS these were, and my first pass at the answers in that section yielded almost nothing. Had to make up the phrase ' IGNORE THAT!', which seems about as strong as 'IGNORE THIS!' (i.e. Really wanted CHANGES THE GAME for the revealer but it wouldn't fit. Struggled to make sense of most of the themers.

Had ANTS for MICE (26D: Little scurriers), couldn't get DYE at all ( 41A: Red 40 or Yellow 6), and so I couldn't get SYNC at all either until I got that terminal 'C' ( 37D: Match up). From 3D: Let secrets out ( SING), and over and over again, I just couldn't lock on to the cluer's sense of cluing.

Choppy grids really slow me down, and I wasn't only this puzzle's wavelength At All with regard to Anything. People seem to be finding it easy (perhaps *because* of all the short stuff), but it was a grind for me. And with no real interest in the actual themers, or even in the few 'longer' non-theme answers, this one was just a slog. A 78-worder where 65 (!?) of the answers are five letters long Or Shorter!?!?! That's 65 of 73 non-themers! So choppy, so relentlessly crosswordy. The theme answers were blah, the theme was a let-down ('WORLD' as a synonym for 'planet' = disappointing / off).

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