The whole point of BATTLESHIP is that you have to find the vessels. I think a couple of opportunities were missed to improve this one. whose symbol is an eagle atop a key ( NSA) - NRA. 29D: Actress Headey ( LENA) - I have no idea who this is, so I naturally assumed I was just misremembering the name of actress Glenne Headly.I had all kinds of crap here at first, including a JOAN. 6D: Pope before Leo VI ( JOHN X) - Yeah, no.I find its being a constellation a consolation. 65A: Red giant in the constellation Cetus ( MIRA) - I had LYRA.If I am wrong, please just leave me to my wrongness. I am taking it on faith that the constructor got this right. the carrier is 5 places long, the destroyer 2, etc. I do admire that (I think) the sea vessels in question in the answer are actually as big in the game as they are in the grid, i.e. CUL and ABO and ALBA and EEO are yuck and too much of the fill is dull, but I love " JUKEBOX HERO" and LOOSE CANNON. I didn't think much of it, as I couldn't remember the sequel to "Conan the Barbarian" and so had no idea what the Xs were doing for a very long time. And so I thought "wait, why are all the other sea vessels used in non-sea vessel contexts in the theme answers *except this one*?" But it turns out that the Xs represent not BOAT but CRUISER, so. I thought there was a major problem with the theme at first, because I assumed that the Xs in PTXXX represented a "boat." You know: PT BOAT. I Was a Twenty-Something Medievalist and I had no clue. John’s pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum.
He eventually fell out with Marozia, who had him deposed, imprisoned, and finally murdered. A candidate of the Counts of Tusculum, he attempted to unify Italy under the leadership of Berengar of Friuli, and was instrumental in the defeat of the Saracens at the Battle of Garigliano. 28 May 928) was Pope from March 914 to his death in 928. Word of the Day: JOHN X ( 6D: Pope before Leo VI). 50A: Grinder (xxx SANDWICH) ("Sub(marine)").37A: Chrysler model discontinued in 2010 (PT xxx) ("Cruiser").25A: Early form of airmail? (xxxxx PIGEON) ("Carrier").17A: 1984 Schwarzenegger sequel (CONAN THE xx) ("Destroyer").or a hint to interpreting the circled squares) the Xs signifying HITs ( 62D: Success in the game 60-Across. THEME: BATTLESHIP (60A: It's four units long in a popular board game (with the game's other pieces hinted at by the circled letters)) - The theme is the game " BATTLESHIP," and themers contain different sea vessel types that are Xd out by Xs in the answers.
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