I was unsure if this was a brand name or a generic term. Jake Houston’s Los Angeles Times crossword - pannonica’s write-up If you’re one who frowns on product placement in your puzzle, best to just skip this one.
The B stands for “Best.” I would consider this a dupe, but sometimes there are clues such as. I didn’t know if it was a band, a song, a genre, or celestial body. What, do some people say “jift”?Next you’re going to tell me the correct way to hang toilet paper is with the loose end over the top. Ah, and what is the correct pronunciation, pray tell? I am Team Hard-G, and I will not be dissuaded! Despite a definitive statement from the creator himself), a soft G makes no sense. Similarly, I’d never heard of REIKI, but again, the crossings help out, especially the fun word JOKEY. DIAGON Alley might be tough for the non-Harry Potter crowd, but crossings are fair. In my mind I enjoyed putting the two entries “ BE COOL” and DORK together. Here’s an interesting discussion (from non-constructors) about whether or not they believe there’s product placement in the NYT.Įlsewhere, OVERSLEEPS and BEER BREWER top the fill. Maybe Google can link to it on their main web site. There was a time when crosswords didn’t have any product placement at all. Straightforward enough, though I don’t think I’m terribly keen on a puzzle touting one particular company’s products. The other theme answers are familiar phrases whose last words are also Google products. Didn’t know that Main Ingredient covered “Summer BREEZE.” Never saw “Despicable Me” and so didn’t know Margo was a TWEEN.Įvan Mahnken’s Universal crossword, “File Storage”-Jim P’s review What I didn’t know before I did this puzzle: never heard of the BOXER Lucia Rijker. Turns out it’s AN ERA, as in “the end of _.” I filled in 43a from crossings and couldn’t figure out what ANERA was.And if you don’t think it’s a verb, you haven’t done it. I realize this is a personal preference and I can’t really ask indie constructors to avoid a word because I find it distasteful. 3d is I TO, who was also an actual judge (without the space).For the indie crowd, I think it’s fair game.Īll dogs! All going down! A solid theme I don’t remember seeing before. That’s a little inside baseball for an easy-ish puzzle – or at least it would be for the NYT. My daughter, age 9: The dog won’t leave me alone! Me: Why don’t you stop throwing the ball for him? Daughter: I’m doing that to make him go away! Me: Honey, he’s a Labrador retriever. I have an afghan my grandmother crocheted for me when I left for college. Inkubator, August 4, 2022, Frannie Comstock, “Puppy Pose,” solution grid There are indeed six DOGs going DOWN in the grid. I am not a yoga practitioner so I’ll leave it to someone else to say whether it’s common to shorten DOWNWARD to DOWN in the name of this particular asana.
I was looking for theme answers in the Across entries and didn’t see a connection because it turns out that’s not where they are. Welcome Frannie Comstock to Constructor Land with her debut! I agreed with the Inkubator editors that this was a “lightly challenging” puzzle and I enjoyed it. A finely crafted clue!įrannie Comstock’s Inkubator crossword, “Puppy Pose”-Jenni’s write-up Make your lead over the competition grow larger, RACE AHEAD. It’s the lead that’s pronounced leed, not led, as in being ahead of the competition, in the lead. This clue confused me till right this moment. Yep, those are some of the primary round holiday foods in the U.S.
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I wanted the TV actor/writer to actually be conversant with the vocabulary he put in his book! said, “Oh, I had to look that up.” I was crushed. When I reached the table, I told him I appreciated that the word leporid was in one of the book’s first stories (that’s the nice thing about very short stories-you can read a few while you’re in line at the book signing). I went to a book signing for The Office actor B.J. Other fave fill: SMUSH, DORIS Burke, Frozen‘s ARENDELLE, HASHTAGS (great clue: ), STREET FOOD, CANDY HEART, BALAYAGE (this is the technique my colorist has used on me in recent years), and POWER YOGA. 0805īit of a mini-theme in this themeless with left/right symmetry:
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