Michael Lieberman is not the person he used to be.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — Despite what the headline and the photo may seem to imply, Michael Lieberman has not become an emu, at least as far as I know. When I said that he was not the person he used to be, it was a roundabout way of hinting at his theme. And the chance to put an emu at the top of this column was just too much to resist.
So the message may be a bit confusing, but the point (to the extent that I have one) holds: Some things are just inevitable. Let’s find out what they might be.
Today’s Theme
Mr. Lieberman’s theme is relatively gentle for a Thursday. No need to metaphorically swing from the chandeliers in order to solve this one. It’s a simple letter-change theme, which some readers may say is too easy for this late in the solving week. But I think the revealer at 53A was funny enough to make the trade-off worthwhile.
The revealer, I’VE CHANGED, is the answer to the clue “‘The old me is gone’ … or what happened between the first and second parts of 19-, 28-, 37- and 48-Across?”
The four theme entries are two-word phrases where both words are virtually the same, except that the first word ends in IVE, and the second in ES.
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Source: Elections - nytimes.com
