I liked this puzzle enough to forgive ERIA, the "suffix with ranch. You can easily improve your search by specifying the number of letters in the answer. He spent all his extra energy on his Monday blog, tackling it bit by bit. Diary of a Crossword Fiend: May 2006. If it was for the NYT crossword, we thought it might also help to see all of the NYT Crossword Clues and Answers for August 21 2022. • In Manny Nosowsky's Wall Street Journal puzzle, the theme entries all contain OIL. A: You, in the Yucatán D: Aries and Taurus, for two.
I'd rather change an A to an O and have BOWLER crossing OTRAS instead of BAWLER with ATRAS, though. Harvey Estes constructed today's Wall Street Journal puzzle ("Big Deel"), and Merl Reagle goes Dada in his "Something in Common" puzzle. Patrick Blindauer is like that Visa commercial: "Visa. We found 20 possible solutions for this clue. Throw a hook in bowling. D: With "out, " slowed to a trickle. 42a Guitar played by Hendrix and Harrison familiarly. So bring your thinking cap and get ready for a challenge. Don't gloat, Ellen—I'll check the crossings at Stamford. )
In summary: a great theme is like chocolate cake, and the entries and clues you might expect to find in a wide-open themeless puzzle are like a perfect strawberry sauce (or vice versa). In case there is more than one answer to this clue it means it has appeared twice, each time with a different answer. If you're making headway, don't give up. But we know that grief has many different elements to it. NOTER ERSE TNUT (rising rapidly on my least-favorite-short-fill list with every passing day) are all kinda yucky. His son blew it, but he doesn't believe that God goes around with his hands on steering wheels, steering his son's car into the water. Best clue in this week's Ben Tausig puzzle: "John, to Paul, George, and Ringo" = LOO! How to Grieve Well: A Special Conversation. In each theme entry, MA has been added, to good effect.
I don't quite get why Lynn Lempel's Washington Post puzzle is called "Box Office Losers, " as some of the names are not associated with the movies. You can give yourself permission to not think about it. In my book, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the LA Times puzzle or its theme. Features of some formal jackets, and what the ends of the answers to the starred clues literally are) - The last word can follow "coat". It may give a bowler a hook. MUG SHOT), as we expect when we see Lynn's byline. Alan Arbesfeld's NYT pays tribute to HENRIK IBSEN on the centennial of his death, with a whopping 69 theme squares (I'm not counting 27 Across's THE, since the clue for 39 Across could easily have included "With 'The'" and since the word also appears in THE DOLL HOUSE—that section could have included TOE and ADORNS crossing ONER). The most likely answer for the clue is HATTREE. And I always enjoy Brendan Quigley's puzzles.
Rebecca in the Basketball Hall of Fame: LOBO. A: Highly suitable for service D: Comedian and PGA tournament namesake Bob. This Saturday, I won't be doing my usual crossword puzzles in the morning. I need to read something that is not sad. Other favorite clues are "con junction" for PRISON, "it's used with some frequency" for HAM RADIO, and "Reading and the like" for RRS. What you're doing through this podcast is you're giving people permission to grieve, and not feel embarrassed, or ashamed, or weak for feeling that deep sorrow. Throwing a hook in bowling. Wasn't it just last week Patrick had the NYT and Sun puzzles on the same day? Noodle dish: LO MEIN. The clues are just oblique enough to make the puzzle a bit more challenging and a lot more enjoyable. Mostly I was on Buell's wavelength—except for where the answers were completely unfamiliar.
Richard Silvestri's Washington Post puzzle had clues for everything, and yet it took me longer to finish it. Ben Tausig's Chicago Reader puzzle this week just might be the first to include CRUNK, "stoned and inebriated, slangily. " Crossword editors, give us harder weekend puzzles! Thanks for the double-dip, Patrick—I do enjoy your work. But the puzzle's good... ). Is this an NYT debut for Peter A. Collins? It also has a baseball term I'd never heard, split into two entries: EEPHUS and PITCH.
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