Will’s Sunday supply is comparatively low, creating opportunities for us Sunday-hopefuls. I submitted this puzzle at the end of September, a mere 11 weeks ago! That’s light-speed in the crosswording world. Like Will and Joel’s clues for DRAGNET and AWOL. Song with the lyric, “I’ll never steep you alone”?], but I understand why it had to go.
I wish my clue for OH DARJEELING had gotten through [“Abbey Road” Most of my clues were changed a little bit or completely (64%), but I’ll proudly claim the clues for NANU, NACL, TOENAIL, and STOOP. I tried it and it worked, much to my glee.
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My construction software kept suggesting WESTIE, but then I recalled my friend’s 13-year-old daughter using BESTIE in conversation. WHITE GLOVES and INSTINCTIVE are O.K., but I liked putting in DIAL-A-RIDE, MAIL ORDER, and especially NETIZENS crossingīESTIE wasn’t in my dictionary until I was building this puzzle. I’m also happy with the relatively clean fill. I’m happy with my set of entries, though I feel BEE GEE LINE lacks a little oomph. What does it take to get forgiveness from a witch who is really mad at you? APOLOGY THIRTEEN. What kind of party does Scotland Yard throw? A BOBBY ORGY. What’s the best way to heat up elastic cords? Use a BUNGEE WARMER. Here are a few other theme entries that ended up on the cutting room floor (told joke-style so you can amuse your friends): No amount of fiddling with the grid produced any better result. Will’s entry is definitely livelier, but it comes with PENTAD and PROEMS where I had CELLAR and DREAMS. One interesting change: GOD NO was originally OODLE. Them spread out within their respective entries two are at the beginning, two at the end, and three in the middle. I wanted each GEE sound to be spelled differently, and I wanted Will and Joel said that Add-A-Sound themes were becoming common, so what put this puzzle over the top were a couple of secondary goals that I set. Sounds a little awkward, I enjoyed the image of Robin Williams’s genie mouthing off to Aladdin. I liked KANJI ARTIST because my daughter is studying calligraphy and Japanese writing, and while GENIE JERK REACTION My favorite is KITTY LITURGY, but I also like WEIRD ALGAE, GPS I LOVE YOU, and OH DARJEELING. I abandoned OUIJA and started thinking of other possibilities. Until, at the last minute, Amy Reynaldo hammered it into my head. I decided to push forward and make a weekday-sized puzzle with it. My fellow cruciverbalists and got mixed results. But not everyone pronounces it WEE-JEE, so it might fail for some. I originally intended only to make a weekday-size puzzle with the GEE sound at the end of each phrase using the seed entry NINTENDO OUIJA. I stole - sorry, got - the idea for this puzzle from Ian Livengood’s puzzle titled, “ Chee Whiz!”Īnd since imitation is the highest form of flattery, I thought I would flatter the heck out of Ian. Well, golly! So this here’s The Sunday New York Times! I’m a Sunday first-timer, so don’t mind me if I kick back and spread out. Of Uruk, Mesopotamia, who was the star of his very own EPIC.Ĭlue of the Day for me was “Born abroad?” for the ubiquitous crossword entry NEE. I loved the nod to DANTE’s Inferno (Canto 3) at 51 Across and Gilgamesh, the king Some of the clues, even the nonpunny ones, were very cool. Having come across it in crossword puzzles at least a dozen times. I am proud, however, that I finally got DEKED, after I had a bit of a tough time with TFAL, because I had forgotten who had sung the “Tennessee Waltz,” and ENUF didn’t come to mind readily. Kudos also to the misdirected DRAGNET clue “Friday NO (which always reminds me of this clip) and LAPD crossing DRAGNET, since that’s where it was set. In nontheme news, there are a couple of debuts that feel fairly modern to me, namely NETIZENS (that’s us!) and BESTIE, as well as one that seem quaint (WHITE GLOVES.) I liked JALAPA, DIAL-A-RIDE, TETRAGRAM, GOD To say that there have been many times that I have uttered the words “GPS, I LOVE YOU” while traveling. I’ll leave you to decipher the rest, except
(“Master of Japanese writing?”), knee-jerk reaction becomes GENIE JERK REACTION (“Grant your own damn wishes, e.g.'”) and so on. Kitty litter becomes KITTY LITURGY (“Religious rituals for cats?”), con artist becomes KANJI ARTIST Jim Peredo is back, and he has added the syllable GEE (spelled in different ways) to his set of phrases. Now all you have to do is set it in a grid,įill it with lively and familiar entries without getting yourself stuck anywhere and then write a mass of brilliant clues that have no possibility of being wrong or offending anyone. If you can do the same thing a few more times, you’ve got yourself a theme set. To a word or phrase that exists and see if it makes another real word or phrase. SUNDAY PUZZLE - People often ask me how constructors get ideas for themes, and the truth is that it’s simply a matter of being observant.
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