![]() The theme works, though I can’t say it does a lot for me. Get it?) Note also the play on words in the title where “row” is yet another word for “quarrel.” Theme answers (in the Down direction) are familiar phrases whose first words (or two) can also be synonyms for “quarrel.” Each one is clued where x is a hint at the final word in the entry. Gary Larson and Amy Ensz’s Universal crossword, “Top Row”-Jim P’s review It’s kind of rare I actually needed to use it, but it’s a nice security blanket. ![]() I have this setting turned to the max on my email accounts and use it multiple times a day. Your mileage may vary, of course, but other than difficulty (I always want more) it’s everything I want in a puzzle. And Wyna’s been delivering it from the jump – I can still remember solving her world debut with AVCX ( get it for a buck here!)Īnyway, I liked the puzzle. There’s just such a deft balance of such a wide net here - GOLAN Heights and THE GRIND KIWI crossing HAKA - it’s Robyn Weintraub, Kam Collins, Francis Heaney levels. PHONE NO, RARO, CDRS all caught my attention as a bit awkward during the solve (I try to make a distinction between what I actually see during a solve versus in the 30-60 minute period of doing a write up after), but they’re plenty offset by the good IMO. ![]() Idiomatic WET NOODLE!Īdmittedly I wasn’t familiar with KIIARA (“Gold” apparently hit #13 on Billboard), or with the ONE-EARED nature of mantises. See also Aly RAISMAN next to KING PRIAM, or the juxtaposition of biology’s ALLELES – the real-world REAL FRIEND – fashion’s Bruno MAGLI – casual SPOSE. That it’s right next to Nobelist SEAMUS Heaney highlights just how much can be fit into a grid. PERIOD UNDERWEAR is a great entry made even better by a great clue. But here we’ve got almost a themed-grid shape around the edges and then, almost nothing in the middle. I’m hard-pressed to remember a grid with so much long stuff hitting the middle - typically below 70 words we’ve got stairstacks in the middle, wide-open corners without a lot of connectivity, or a diagonal streak of blocks through the center to help segment the grid. I can’t remember ever not loving the heck out of a Wyna themeless, but this may be one of my favorites. Wyna Liu’s Inkubator crossword solution, “Themeless 40,” 2/16/23 Wyna Liu’s Inkubator crossword, “Themeless 35″-Matthew’s write-up If you thought this was salacious, that’s on you! I am weary of entries like GASP AT, which append a 2-letter word to form a phrase that is maybe not a dictionary-grade sort of entry. If you’re a language nerd with a little bit of Cyrillic alphabet knowledge (like I picked up from Encyclopedia Brown-I know I’m not the only one!), check out some Sporcle quizzes like this and that. Other fave fill: ABOUT-FACES (plural feels a little weird), PIZZA STONES, potato LATKES, VAMPIRE BAT, SLEAZEBALL, AFFLUENZA (which seems like a “get over yourself” issue), SIZZLED, and BOLEYN. You might be asking, What the heck is a puzzle box? Watch the Netflix movie Glass Onion to see a wild example of one (and stay for the Natasha Lyonne cameo mentioning crosswords-both she and director Rian Johnson are puzzle people). ![]() This puzzle played harder than I expected. NY Times crossword solution, 2 17 23, no. ![]()
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