4/16/2023 0 Comments Gary larson crossword editorWhew! We’ve seen this theme mechanism before, but it catches me all the same. 105a HUNG-RYE-YES -RYE- also part of DRYERS.102a PAR-ALE-GALS -ALE- also a part of HEALER.76a SUP-PORT-ERS -PORT- also part of SPORT UTE.73a TIM-MEAD-OWS -MEAD- also part of LET ME ADD.49a DRAG-GIN-GOUT -GIN- also part of ENGINES. And we’ll see that each raised section is a type of (alcoholic) drink, fitting the revealer and title: In the case of 25a, it’s LOG, the CAB of MACABRE, and INS to form LOGCABINS, a more sensible answer to. Looking more closely at the starred clues, the appropriate answers are there, working over black squares and back down to the next across entry. So what’s going on?įirst, to the revealer, at 117a DRINK UP. Mirror symmetry, and some short answers that don’t match the clues - for LOG isn’t far into the puzzle. – 93D: LOAN OUT – It felt odd to have this directly after at 91D.Įvan Birnholz’ Washington Post crossword solution, “Raise Your Glass,” – 81D: OPTICKS – I did not enjoy this spelling at all, but who am I to argue with Newton! My only defense is that the start of the school year always scrambles my brain a bit! – 82A: CLEO – I will candidly admit that I got Better Than Ezra confused with Letters to Cleo here. I wish the puzzle had taken a similar approach at 109D by cluing EBONY via the magazine. – 74A: SNL SKIT – For me, this is a great example of an entry that could have easily been clued through a white lens but wasn’t. – 1A: TWERK – Does it hint to my age that I got grumpy when MOONWALK didn’t fit here? I can imagine ENOS / TSWANA could be a tough crossing for many folks. I couldn’t figure out ALL OF / FAKE NEWS / KEG for the life of me, and the GOT WISE / IN ON bit stumped me, too. My only difficulty with this puzzle was a bit of the north and SE sections of the grid. here, especially since we want the themer clues to be ET-less, but I am very likely overthinking that part. Also, was for ATARI at 70D an Easter egg here? It seems odd to affirmatively include E.T. The revealer isn’t the most exciting to me (I might have preferred something more specific like ET GO HOME), but I still very much enjoyed going back to revisit each themer after the light bulb went off. I really enjoyed the aha moment in this theme and was really impressed with a lot of the finds! So many of the clues felt quite natural / in-the-language phrases, and I loved the reinterpretations of their ET-less versions. Reparsing the revealer gives us our aha moment: if we’re WORKING through this puzzle WITHOUT AN ET in each of the themers’ clues, those clues make a lot more sense! An ELECTRICAL OUTLET is indeed what’s in your wall, FAKE NEWS is indeed press junk, etc.
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