The long answers were, for this genre, succinct and “in-the-language”, but they didn’t match the clues too exactly. The one-word clues of today’s puzzles by Michael Schlossberg seemed to suggest clue reversal, but everything didn’t quite add up. I liked STOP OBSESSING and FALSE POSITIVE and DOG SLEDS Good morning, folks! Puzzles like this make me wonder what the seed was. Liz Gorski’s New Yorker puzzle– malaika’s write-up
It makes me want to spend a day with a thesaurus and an empty grid. Great puzzle with a ton of theme content.
Also, if you’re an architecture nerd, I would recommend just spending some time googling ABBEYs. 60a – I love this clue for ABBEY because of the wordplay inherent in it, knowing that ABBEYs are places in which monks both worship and live.SAY WHAT and PRATE are perhaps the closest we get to a themer being directly related to speaking clue-wise, and I loved the use of CONVERSE (I have a pair on right now, in fact) and UTTER CRAP. I don’t know how BEQ managed to squeeze all of this in, but it was a great theme with some very fun theme answers. So much theme content here – 59 squares of it, in fact. Theme: Each theme answer crosses synonyms for “talk” or different ways of expressing oneself.īrendan Emmett Quigley’s Crossword #1477, “Expressways” solution Also, I don’t really think of a PONYTAIL as an “updo”, which is a word I’d use for a style when the hair is even more constrained, like a bun.īrendan Emmett Quigley’s Crossword #1477, “Expressways”-Darby’s review Random hangups: Anyone else never know, when faced with a clue like 41d, if it’s OSCAR NOD or “Oscar nom”? It’s a constant struggle for me. I wasn’t sure I knew MIRAI NAGASU, but once I got a fair amount of the letters in her name I realized I remembered her from her stint on Celebrity Big Brother this February… crossword knowledge can come from anywhere, I guess.įavorite clues: 32d for RIBS, I was so confused what this meant for the longest time! I also loved 28d for HEN, for obvious reasons.įavorite entries: LET IT RIDE, ZIGZAG, MYANMAR, QUINTA Brunson! It’s also neat that the “rain” is split differently in each answer, and begins successively later. 22d – EXT RA INNINGSĪ classic USA Today theme type today, but one that is elevated by the high quality of theme answers.Theme: Each vertical theme answer contains the word “rain” Neville Fogarty’s USA Today Crossword, “Rain Down - Sophia’s recap
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That’s not surprising, given that the list of two-letter movie titles is pretty small, but it meant I had a real sense of deja vu once I had the aha of what was going on with this puzzle. I can’t figure out where it was, but I think I’ve seen this exact same group of movie titles used in a similar way before. 47D: E-commerce site with a portmanteau name - GROON.61A: Increasingly common weather event akin to a hurricane - SERSTORM.12D: Ingredient in sushi rolls and poke bowls - AHUNA.18A: Ceelo Green’s “Forget You” and the Black Eyed Peas’ “Don’t Mess With My Heart” - RADIO EDS.The middle of today’s grid suggests there are four SHORT/FILMS hidden inside the puzzle ( 37A: With 39-Across, some Sundance submissions… or a hint to four squares in this puzzle), and indeed we have four rebus squares that affect the grid: Hey, today’s NYT is a debut – congrats, Dan! Peter Gordon’s Fireball crossword, “Themeless 154″-Amy’s recap As far as I know, he can’t sing like Lou RAWLS. Our realtor who helped us buy two houses and sell one of them is named Lou Rall. In this case, my internet research shows the word means “Goddess Mother of the World” which sounds appropriate. It’s a lot more fun to say “Chomolungma” than MT EVEREST. My internet research uncovered that it’s pronounced “TAH-mah-leh”. Neat factoid and a little bit of misdirection if you were expecting the city to be in a Latin American country. We have TAKE TURNS, EL CAPITAN, NEOLITHIC, MT EVEREST, MENAGERIE, ASININE, and WOEBEGONE. So I enjoyed this and was even to get the last one without any crossings.Īnd of course the rest of the fill shines, just as you’d expect from a veteran constructor. What makes this better than most turning themes (for me, anyway) is that the “turned” letters are whole words that are different in each case, and they’re given clues that have nothing to do with hairstyles (BRAID notwithstanding). Surprising to find a theme answer at 1a, but here we are.
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