How much are Americans taught about US imperialism in places like Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, and the Philippines? You can read a bit about Everett’s latest honor and recent book here.Īlso didn’t know, VERSE NOVEL.
(Your mileage may vary, and your interest in complaining about the content of a Last puzzle may be most keen.)ĭid not know:, PERCIVAL EVERETT. I like hard themelesses, and I like Natan’s cruciverbal style. Seeing Natan’s byline on the New Yorker puzzle always brings me a little hit of happiness. New Yorker crossword solution, 3/13/23- Natan Last Natan Last’s New Yorker crossword–Amy’s recap Additional near symmetry continued with 2d ARIA and 14a AREA. My solve started with bifurcated CAs, as I knew the 1-across/1-down pair-both clued as -was going to be CARD and CASH.Why “S”? I guess because it works practically, but it has no relationship to the woodstuff that comprises the theme. Conversely, I’m not as confident that 34a ON A ROLL appearing above logs is also an easter egg. And I don’t for a moment believe it’s accidental that directly underneath the logs, axes, lumber sequence we find a TERMITE (65a )-a fitting end. It’s an unusually-structured theme, but it’s good in its own quirky way. As a lover of British English, I enjoyed seeing CHUFFED in the upper right, and the fill on the whole is pretty smooth, with nothing tougher than crossword standby Jean ARP to trip one up on a Monday.ĭavid Steinberg’s Universal crossword, “Out of the WoodS” - pannonica’s write-upģ0d. But the theme concept, regardless of how the revealer is clued, is interesting and unusual. I don’t trust myself to rule on the cultural importance of the short story in question - I had never heard of it, but it seems to get plenty of Google hits, but also plenty of people could be Googling “to build a fire” for practical reasons. 57A, as noted, provides both revealer and final theme entry in one, with the complete word FIRE at the end.44A is a BRISTLECONE FIR, providing the first three letters of FIRE.36A is GOOGLE FI, so now you’ve got the first two letters of FIRE.That’s because the ends of the theme answer, in order, “build” the word FIRE: The revealer at 57A doubles as a final theme answer: is TO BUILD A FIRE. Here’s a theme construct that’s not frequently seen on Monday: the “building” of a word letter by letter in the theme entries. Los Angeles Times 3/13/23 by Rebecca Goldstein The other theme answers are familiar phrases whose final words can also be types of shirts. That’s an incredible feat, congratulations!ĭesirée Penner & Jeff Sinnock Wall Street Journal crossword, “Fashion Ensemble”-Jim’s review I saw on XWord Info that with this puzzle, Jeff Chen has “hit for the cycle” (published on every day of the week in the NYT) 10 times over. My mom’s two thoughts on the puzzle: “Has anyone every used PAN OUT in a positive sense?” and “Why can’t we just clue PEE the way we all think of it? We’re all adults here” (I will agree with her that is kind of a confusing clue).Forget, congrats to the DANIELs Kwan and Scheinert, who won best director tonight for “Everything Everywhere All At Once”!.It’s probably a small percentage of people for whom the song EENIE Meenie was a crucial part of their youth… but I am one of those people, and I love its inclusion here (and that it’s clued easily enough that folks who don’t know the song can still get the answer).The fill highlights for me were THIN MINTS and PELICAN.I had the most trouble in the NE corner of the puzzle, where I had “stomps” before TROMPS, “on a roll” before ON A TEAR, and I didn’t know SLAKE or CDS as clued by.But once I figured it out, it was smooth sailing. The wording of the revealer took me a minute to parse, as I first read it as the “tail” being a synonym (like, a “mock” version of another word) and wasn’t sure how any of the theme answer words related to it. I liked the theme as a whole, particularly the amount of theme material that was pressed into the puzzle. MOCKTAILs are very popular these days – I often see them referred to as “zero-proof” or just non-alcoholic drinks, in order to decrease the idea that they are “lesser” somehow than regular cocktails. New York Times, 03 13 2023, By Sam Koperwas and Jeff Chen
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