![]() ![]() ![]() oh for &^#$%'s sake." It's coffee with less kick, not no kick. I don't get it, why would you put HALF over CA. D = 4? E = 8? This isn't some phone keypad thing, is it. This allowed me to finally see the "8" in HEIGHTEN, right under the "4" in OUT OF OUR HANDS, but I still had this dumb moment of "Wait, if it's DECAF. Eventually I decided it was a "FOUR" rebus, somehow, and I shifted SCULLS to SHELLS. Kept trying to pull GHANA ( 5D: Major exporter of gold and cocoa) but GHANA wasn't ghana go anywhere, so. And underneath that I had H-N for 19A: Increase the intensity of and no idea what I was supposed to do with that. I could see that 16A: Not up to us wanted to be OUT OF OUR HANDS, but with DECAF and SCULLS wanting in on the action, I had OUT O-ANDS and couldn't visualize how any of that was gonna work. The second most vicious part was the fact that HIKE fit at 19A: Increase the intensity of, and the third most vicious was the clue on SHELLS (14D: Racing boats), which I thought were SCULLS (Is That A Thing!?!?!. For me the most vicious part of this puzzle was the fact that DECAF fit perfectly at 17D: Coffee with less kick. Huge "aha" with this one, though it doubled as a huge "D'oh!" because once I got the gimmick (after much staring and quizzical head-tilting) I realized I'd been reading one of the clues wrong. In a French patisserie, assorted small desserts are usually called mignardises, while hard, buttery biscuits are called petits fours. Sec ("dry"), dainty biscuits, baked meringues, macarons, and puff pastries.Salé ("salted"), savory bite-sized appetizers usually served at cocktail parties or buffets.Glacé ("glazed"), iced or decorated tiny cakes covered in fondant or icing, such as small éclairs, and tartlets.This was called baking à petit four (literally "at small oven"), a lower temperature which allowed pastry baking. Bakers used the ovens during the cooling process, taking advantage of their stored heat, for baking pastry. Large brick (Dutch design) ovens were used, which took a long time to heat up to bake bread, but also to cool down. In 18th and 19th century France, gas ovens did not exist. The name is French, petit four ( French pronunciation: ), meaning "small oven". 63A: Reliable, to a lender (CREDI T-WORTHY)Ī petit four (plural: petits fours, also known as mignardises ) is a small bite-sized confectionery or savory appetizer.40A: Small, fancy confections (PETITS FOURS).37A: Doctor's reassurance before a shot ("I T WON'T HURT").19A: Increase the intensity of (H EIGHTEN). ![]()
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