Would love to know if anyone got this without crosses.Įmily Cox and Henry Rathvon’s CRooked crossword, “Matching Bookends” - pannonica’s write-upĬrosSynergy Sunday Challenge crossword solution, 11.13.16 I kind of laugh these days when I see something that’s been around as long as Google being described as “modern.” I mean, I get it. In fact, I first entered CUES because I was reading the clue as “lines that are fed” instead of “fed lines to someone.” I know I’ve seen this clue before, but it still threw me. Never heard of this author, but with the first E and the R in place, I assumed his stories must be EERIE. There was someone in that movie besides Tom Hanks and Forest Whitaker? It was so long ago …. Can’t say that I knew any of those types of pearls, so I guess I learned something today. (Me: “There are different kinds of raspberries? Well, yeah, I guess there would be.”) Had the same thought with the pearls and that one actually panned out. I also thought that one was going to be a list of specific varieties of actual raspberries, which worried me a little. The only one that doesn’t really work for me is “raspberry.” The things on the list are things you might say to accompany a raspberry, but they’re not raspberries themselves. Take familiar phrases that end with the word “jam” and jam a bunch of examples of the first word together. PuzzleGirl here sitting in for Andy today. Times crossword, “Jam Session”-Angela’s writeup Only a couple fusty answers popped out at me, which is great for a 21×21 grid. I kinda wanted BAHA’I, but we’d need the apostrophe to take its own square, similar to yesterday’s puzzle. Not as commonly seen, I don’t think, as Shi’a and Shi’ite. Is this phrase truly in the language? My household sports fans say yes. When I was in high school, the issue of consent wasn’t brought up at all. I’m guessing Brendan Emmett Quigley has built a theme around tribute band names by now. Longer than the usual French crossword entry. The only weak spot was that TUBE TOP tied to plumbing, but I liked everything else in the theme. The theme’s quite well done, embodying plenty of surprises when you figure out all the homonym action. Sock and belt, the verbs meaning “wallop.” Not sure anyone anywhere has worn a feather boa with foam Crocs, though! Not a winning drag queen/showgirl look. Take two or three items of apparel and assign them to an apt person based on the meanings of their homonyms: NY Times crossword solution, 11 13 16, “Clothes That Fit”Ĭute theme. It’s a solid construct that crossword solvers without other meta exposure could unfurl and appreciate. The first step is maybe a touch harder than a Week 1, but the second part brings it towards Week 2 territory. I’d grade the meta difficulty between an MGWCC Week 1 and 2. The 14-letter game which completes the theme set turns out to be the goal of Stratego itself: CAPTURE THE FLAG. To get the second part of the meta, we need to look at the piece not found in the grid, which is the FLAG. I learned that these are 11 of the 12 pieces found in STRATEGO, which is an eight-letter game and our first meta answer. This list screamed some sort of strategy game to me, but I’m not very familiar with them, so it was time to turn to Good Old Trusty Google for some help. Then there’s the BOMB, which is not a person at all. The military ranks jumped out immediately, but then there are non-military persons like the SPY, BOY SCOUT, MINER, and MARSHAL. The last word of each entry seems to be the important one. There are no clear theme entries, so let’s see what the longest across answers give us: This week’s crossword is a meta, with the following instructions: “METAPUZZLE: Which game with eight letters in its name is hinted at by this puzzle’s theme, and which game with 14 letters in its name completes it?” Hi, everyone! Since Jenni’s been covering my Wednesday NYT, the least I can do is help her out with a WaPo review.
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