![]() ![]() Much better than PICKERS or PICKING or something like that. But I really love the revealer-it's silly, in a way that makes the puzzle fun. I would also say that most TEAM CAPTAINs do not "pick" their teams unless the specific context is P.E. ![]() Anyway, I've only ever thought of the people we buy produce from as "farmers." If you say "farmer," it's pretty much assumed that you're referring to someone who grows "vegetables." It's only if you're *not* growing vegetables that you'd offer a qualifying adjective. One of the other farmers also raises meat and poultry. farmers? Our farmers (the ones we buy produce from every weekend at the farmers market) grow vegetables, yes, but at least one of them also grows hemp (they're leaning more heavily into CBD products, and may eventually be making a play to grow marijuana, I dunno). My main, perhaps only, objection to the theme is VEGETABLE FARMER. Otherwise, this puzzle was pretty doable (I solved Downs-only, as usual). Very humbling thing to face up to on a Monday. I remembered it, eventually, with some help from the "L," but even after getting it, I could not have located it on the map with anything like certainty. This is all to say that LOMÉ was oddly slow in coming. But the other two countries, yikes, they won't stick. I think I know Tonga the best because it's part of Oceania, as is NZ, and since I've been to NZ a half a dozen times or so (my wife was born there, as I've probably told you many times), I've had plenty of occasion to pin Tonga down on the map in a pretty fixed way. They are all very far from one another, and yet those "T"s and "G"s, man, my head keeps filing them all in the same box and then mixing them up. OK look I will admit that I still have some geographic confusion around Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, and Togo. The cross-border agglomeration of which Lomé is the centre, has about 2 million inhabitants as of 2020. Its city limits extends to the border with Ghana, located a few hundred meters west of the city center, to the Ghanaian city of Aflao and the South Ketu district where the city is situated, had 160,756 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the country's chief port, from where it exports coffee, cocoa, copra, and oil palm kernels. ![]() It has an urban population of 837,437 while there were 1,477,660 permanent residents in its metropolitan area as of the 2010 census. Located on the Gulf of Guinea at the southwest corner of the country, with its entire western border along the easternmost point of Ghana's Volta Region, Lomé is the country's administrative and industrial center, which includes an oil refinery. Lomé ( UK: / ˈ l oʊ m eɪ/ LOH-may, US: / l oʊ ˈ m eɪ/ loh- MAY) is the capital and largest city of Togo. Word of the Day: LOMÉ ( 30D: Togo's capital). BANJO PLAYER (42A: Certain bluegrass musician).TEAM CAPTAIN (32A: Squad leader, in sports).VEGETABLE FARMER (17A: One growing asparagus, spinach, corn, etc.). ![]()
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