Our final book is one I hadn’t heard of as changes to NATE THE NOT BAD – isn’t there a Monty Python takeoff in Holy Grail with knight names that are less chivalrous than typical? Hold please….Next, author Charles Dickens gets the treatment with is MEH EXPECTATIONS – we just rented the BBC production of this with Gillian Anderson as a ghostly Miss Havisham.Scott Fitzgerald and as it clues THE SO-SO GATSBY – has anyone seen the recent Baz Luhrmann remake with Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio? I haven’t, but have only recently read the book when I found it in a bookcase at a B&B we were staying at. Updated Thursday morning: Patrick Blindauer’s CrosSynergy/Washington Post crossword, “Less Than Great” – Dave Sullivan’s reviewĭoes anyone recall a puzzle from around 2005 by constructor Patrick Merrell in which he “lightened up” colorful phrases like AMERICAN PINK CROSS and WILLIAM OF PEACH? This puzzle reminded me of that, as it took three book titles down a notch:ĬrosSynergy / Washington Post crossword solution – 08/08/13 PS: I should note the 4-Z puzzle does have some weaker fill, but it’s a four-z puzzle for heavens’ sake! I hope I won’t be accused of being a lickspittle, but this puzzle really sang to me, despite its basic theme! 4.5 stars PLEASEDO, INPJS and GOCOED/ KPDUTY crossing ROCKSTAR are great answers! Amy’s the COED pundit, but I think she’d approve of the 1969 clueing for that answer! And the price we pay for those answers is… almost nothing crossword-ese is mostly limited to repeaters (legitimate short answers that appear often) rather that actual weak entries: probably the lowest points were TENAM and ENE… That’s saying something!
Outside of the theme, we have a number of other lulus as well. They’re all beautiful answers: RAZZMATAZZ (evoking this puzzle, which actually used RAZZLEDAZZLE), HOOTENANNY (I never knew what the word meant!), BOOBYTRAP and HISSYFITS (small demerit for the plural of convenience, although this is easily trumped by the beauty of the answers as a set).
#Spell sooey full
They all start with JEERS, which are disguised by the fact that none form a full word. I think I’m as guilty as anybody of doing that! Second, the theme answers. I bring her essays up here, because it really felt like the puzzle was like seeing her puzzle advice realised in crossword form! First off, the theme is only 43 squares, arranged in a pinwheel shape it’s a style we don’t see nearly as often as even three or four years ago, as the squeeze for more theme squares has become prevalent. I haven’t seen Nancy Salomon’s by-line in what feels like yonks! Apart from being one of the most published crossword constructors – a crossword ROCKSTAR – she has mentored countless constructors, and also wrote several essays on crossword constructing. Nancy Salomon’s Los Angeles Times crossword – Gareth’s Review You’re picturing a little kid playing with dolls, maybe setting up a tea party or a doll house, and … stabbing pins into the dolls to vanquish his or her enemies. Really? I know “phones it in.” Was this the terminology back before Alexander Graham Bell devised telephone technology or what? These days, people should just text it in. Man! I cannot believe I was so stumped in the southwest corner and that despite my college class on the History of Modern India (meaning ~1500 to Gandhi/Nehru) and knowing Shah Jahan et al., I tried RAJAS here. Pannonica can surely tell you the other members of this order. Everyone’s favorite insect from the order Cruciverboptera. I called him my Tonya Harding and he corrected me: “Jeff Gillooly.” Which he and his friends say instead of “absolutely” because it flows the same) and ROTCS.įavorite fill: DOGGY BAG, SMUSHES, CLEAN-CUT, STARGATE, VOODOO, SO SORRY, HASH OUT. Surprised to see plural TONYAS (although! I was just telling my hair guy that I was going to a crossword tournament this weekend, and he was just in New York and said if only he’d known, he would have found a way to dose the other Lollapuzzoola competitors with Ex-Lax to clear my path to victory. A goat’s MAA (which is not a word I run into outside of crosswords) and pigs’ OINKS. This puzzle made a lot of sounds, didn’t it? Some YUKS.
Put together, these five items spell out JUXYO, which is why so many farmers have all five items nailed up on the side of their barns. Though the hula hoop is more perfectly circular than the oval letter O. Though the letter X is elongated rather than being a four-right-angles multiplication symbol (×) that looks more like a tire iron. This week’s Thursday NYT theme requires looking at letters for their shape rather than their sound or meaning: NY Times crossword solution, 8 8 13, no 0808
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