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Looks like a dilly.

Holy Enigma, Batman !!

They didn't have it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Holy...%22#List_of_exclamations


Can anyone parse 12D "Sporting nut pic?" in last month's puzzle?
The answer was obviously an anagram - TIN CUP, but ... so what ?
Where's the def ? What am I missing?

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Puzzle - 20180127

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/SatPuz01272018.pdf

Solution for previous – 20171230:

http://online.wsj.com/media/lastshif.JPG

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Tin cup is a sports term, usually a verb I think. It means to keep trying a difficult move only to fail. But I thought the clue referred to the "pic".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Cup

Wow. Pure genius.

Thanks for the "Tin Cup" tip.

This puzzle certainly raised the bar. More like the ones they did for The Atlantic way back when. I wonder if that idiot editor who got rid of them is still on staff.

Actually, I don't know whether she had anything to do with their departure; I assumed at the time that they were retiring. Here's the story. I ran into her at a dance performance in Boston. I hadn't seen her in a while and we got to chatting, and I told her how heartbreaking it was that they were no longer having crosswords in the magazine. She said, "Why? Were they good?" I said, "Uh, the setters are geniuses." "Oh," she said, "I'll tell them you said so. I've never done one." She surely must have noticed that my features had frozen. I mean, she's a nationally known higher-up in the grammar police force, has written columns and books on word usage, etc. I was so thrilled when you started posting the WSJ puzzles, and I'm ever grateful. Again, I just figured they'd packed it in of their own accord.

What a puzzle! I started by guessing the unclued entry and filling in the grid from there. I had an almost full grid before the penny dropped about the directional entries.
Thanks, Syzygy.