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My favorite thing about today’s crossword was how fresh and new each of the theme answers felt – apt, considering the theme! I’ve heard of a FREE RADICAL, but the specific definition was new to me so it took a while to get that answer.
(Was anyone else worried for a second that USA Today was running a “something different” puzzle?) You know solfege even if you don’t realize it. The first letters of the clues are notes on the C major scale and each theme answer begins with the corresponding note in solfege. The rest I figured out of my own with a little help from the title. So “Clay?” is really “C” and “lay” leading to the answer DOWAGER (the note DO and WAGER).” That’s part of it. He said “…all the clues with question marks need to be interpreted as a single letter, followed by the rest. The theme answers are….sort of like cryptics? With a twist? I am dipping my toe in the cryptic waters so I am no expert, and I had to look at Peter’s answer sheet to even begin to understand what was going on. Paul Coulter’s Fireball Crossword, “To Scale” – Jenni’s write-up If you play with the RPMS (“33 1/3, 45, and 78, for short”) on one of the old Chipmunks 80s covers albums, you get a pretty solid post-punk/goth cover compilation.
This also had some weird choices of fill – AD BIZ? “In HAEC verba”? This one was not my cup of tea. It felt weirdly both underclued AND overclued, at the same time. Those phrases are (kind of) clued by the “Experience needed” section of each clue, while the “is wanted to” part hints at the flipped meaning.
56A: Change careers, or a hint to this puzzle’s theme - SWITCH JOBSĮach of these is a phrase that’s had its component pieces flip-flopped – RIDE A TRAIN, STRIKE A DEAL, BOARD A PLANE, BUST A MOVE, CUT A CHECK. 31A: Nurse is wanted to … / Experience needed: philanthropy - CHECK A CUT. 12D: Museum curator is wanted to … / Experience needed: freestyle dancing - MOVE A BUST. 46A: Carpenter is wanted to … / Experience needed: flying - PLANE A BOARD. 23A: Baseball pitcher is wanted to … / Experience needed: negotiating - DEAL A STRIKE. 17A: Equestrian is wanted to… / Experience needed: conducting - TRAIN A RIDE. I see what John Westwig is aiming for with the theme of today’s puzzle, but the clues themselves feel just a bit too complex for their own good: John Westwig’s New York Times crossword-Ben’s review Still not sure what they’re going for here. spaceships that might “beam” you up) is a pretty far stretch. I’m sure BMW makes some of those, don’t they? Calling UFOS “beamers” (i.e. If someone asked me to “repro” an error, I’d be annoyed as heck. I was never in IT, but I’ve spent more time with computers than most. I found it interesting that his mom, a UCLA law professor, sent him to boarding school in Samoa after he released his debut at the age of 16. New to me, but he has garnered widespread praise for his multiple albums. Tough clue if you didn’t know that, especially with the rebus in the middle. The show Beavis and Butthead was created by Mike Judge. Read more about Sojourner Truth’s speech here. Interesting that this was not clued with respect to the theme since a DOT usually precedes the file type. ERTE and A FATE fall into the crosswordese category. We have some additional long entries in the Across direction: EMAIL LIST (also solid) and SPACE CASE (wonderful). MAKE ROOM, LEAST BIT, and DAYS OFF are our marquee fill entries. So “Gig Economy” means conserving computer storage space. A rebus in the WSJ is so rare that it’s completely unexpected, so it was a fun aha moment when I figured it out.Īlso, I love the title! A “gig” obviously refers to computer storage space and “economy” here means the careful or sparing use of a resource. A nice find.Īll these were nice, to be honest, and the revealer makes a solid basis for the rebus. I was thinking “get coffee” or “go for coffee.” I’ve heard “do lunch,” but not “do coffee” so much, though I imagine people do say it. LET’S ( DO C) OFFEE crossing ( DOC) TORS. Instruction on what to do with one’s privates. It’s a video compression file type and an alternative to. I feel like not as many people will be as familiar with the.
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