Still, as I was saying, SENSEN's about as ughy as full-word fill gets here, so that's good. Then again, I didn't know SENSEN ( 8D: Longtime breath freshener), so maybe in time I will see that he is very worthy, and, in fact, a very nice guy. SENSEN feels like something a puzzle forces you into - like there's a pay-to-play transaction going on, where the word donates huge amounts of very useful letters to your puzzle-writing campaign, and in exchange you let him hang around and smoke your cigars and generally be an incompetent nuisance. To PB2's credit, there's not much real junk - only one weak partial, for instance, at ASET ( 12D: Play _ (do some tennis)). The grid (perhaps by necessity) is this odd snaky shape that creates a lot of 3- and 4-letter words - not the optimal conditions for interesting, let alone exciting fill. Love the idea and execution of the theme, not so wild about the rest of the fill. Writing this one up quickly tonight, as I don't have much to say about it. Sen Sen bears a strong resemblance to Nigroids, a liquorice sweet made by Ernest Jackson & Company Ltd. Dunn Company, currently produced by F&F Foods. Word of the day: SEN-SEN - Sen-Sen is a type of breath freshener originally marketed as a "breath perfume" in the late nineteenth century by the T.
or a hint to 17/18-, 26/29-, 47/51- and 62/63-Across) - theme answers are all 14 letters long and broken in half (by a black square) between the "I" and the "N"
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