(Pro tip: Pretty much any time you marinate meat, pat it dry with paper towels before you cook it. is involved in making a puzzle, I know to expect some evocative food and drink references, and this one has even more than usual: LATTE, CARAMEL, SWEET TEA, CAKE, TALL (clued with reference to Starbucks), YAM, MEAT, PEA, the themer LIMA BEANS, and MARINADE. There’s not a single entry in the grid that makes me think, “mmm, a little hard for Monday,” and it showed in my solving time. What really takes this puzzle over the top for me is how smooth the fill is.
(I was just there a couple of weeks ago to attend an opera for the first time since before the pandemic started, and it was so good to be back!) The LINCOLN CENTER in this case is the trigram ABE, as in ABE LINCOLN, that appears crossing two words in the middle of each theme entry: 58A, the revealer is a rather unwieldy but nicely evocative clue for LINCOLN CENTER. It might sound odd to say “enjoyed” about a puzzle that took me all of a minute forty to solve - I certainly didn’t spend time savoring it - but I mean it! The simplest of themes is elevated by perfect execution. I haven’t enjoyed a Monday this much in a long time. Los Angeles Times 2/7/22 by Andy Wang and C.C. Burnikel’s Los Angeles Times crossword - Stella’s write-up
It looks like its definition is specifically confined to baseball.Īndy Wang and C.C. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word “putout” before. Anyone here following the Olympics more closely? I’ve only seen a little bit of Olympics coverage tonight for the first time, since my wife always seems to find the figure skating events. TELETYPE and GOOD EGGS both feel decidedly old-fashioned. Although the fellow in the picture looks quite dignified.įun fill in “ WHAT SAY YOU?” and WARMED OVER. I’m not sure I’d want to meet up with one in the wild. I didn’t know there was a giant version of the otter. I especially liked the six-letter find in the third theme answer. Nothing groundbreaking, but a solid Monday theme. Theme: Synonyms for “child” are found in the circled squares within familiar phrases. Mike Shenk’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Finding Your Inner Child”-Jim P’s review Having both NAP and ASLEEP in the puzzle makes me realize just how tired I am… maybe it’s time for a late afternoon rest.I liked the long downs on the left side of the puzzle (DINING SET, TAILGATES) more than those on the right (MADE A FIST, STEPS ON IT), just because the left phrases are snappier.I can’t believe I’m wishing for cross-referenced clues because I normally believe they should be used *very sparingly*, but it could have been cool to clue both THEY and THEM as non-binary pronouns rather than just THEM (not complaining about that clue, though!).I hope you know your directors, since we’ve got both PEDRO Almodóvar and WES Anderson representation here!.Never knew Nike was also from the Pacific Northwest! I got NIKE entirely from crosses, and lucky I did because I would have been entirely lost on.The only area I got held up on was 54d for LLOSA, whose name I know but always get confused with Federico García Lorca, who is a Spanish poet.But hiding a 6 letter word is no small feat, so props to this answer for doing that! DRAG ONE’S HEELS worked less well for me, because the entirety of the first word is included in DRAGON and phrases with “one’s” always feel a little contrived to me. My favorite answer in itself has to be the DEMON hidden in PRIDE MONTH, if only because it feels like a shoutout to the Babadook (iykyk). So of course, I’ll say it was the best puzzle ever ) I really love this theme – the fact that each of the words was different, they all spanned two words, and that the concept had a pitch-perfect grid-spanning revealer elevated it over other hidden words themes.
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I’m writing this after a full day of competing at Boswords – amazing job done by all the constructors/folks involved in putting the event on! Anyways, Boswords must have been a great warm-up for today’s puzzle, because I got my personal record Monday time. New York Times, 02 07 2022, By Rebecca Goldstein
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