Trust Brendan to take a tried-and-true theme idea and spin it in a way that you’ll never see in a mainstream puzzle outlet. What I didn’t know before I did this puzzle: that there’s a football formation called the PISTOL and that the motto of the Seabees is CAN DO.īrendan Emmett Quigley crossword (No. Well, they are, but the puzzle is looking for NAGS. Speaking of fresh clues for stale entries, we have for ASAP.And of course for the students themselves. I still have empathy for the people charged with creating a college class comprised of students whose junior and senior years of high school have been wildly disrupted, to say the least.
I know the process has been random, soul-sucking, classist, and racist. No tours, no interviews, lots of kids who can’t access the SAT or ACT and are doing remote school so who knows what their grades even mean? And that’s in addition to the dire financial straits facing a lot of institutions.
#LIKE AN OSCARS AFTERPARTY CROSSWORD FULL#
I’m not a fan of anagrams, I’m not very good at anagrams, and this puzzle is full of anagrams.Įach theme answer is a wacky phrase that’s an ANAGRAM of an actor’s name, clued as an occupation and the costar of the anagrammed actor. I like her puzzles and I’m usually on her wavelength. Jennifer is one of those names that always makes me smile when I see it. Rob Gonsalves and Jennifer Lim’s Fireball Crossword, “What a Cast of Characters” – Jenni’s write-upĪ woman co-wrote this Fireball! I’m not familiar with Rob’s work although Peter’s note says he’s been published in the LAT, so I might have done one of his puzzles and forgotten the byline. Other nice grid bits: ACCRA, ENIAC, CLEAVE, ONE REEL, EATS CROW, TREE GODS, and CANINES This isn’t my favorite genre of Thursday puzzle that pops up in the Times, but this is solidly executed.ĪSK ME what my favorite BRITCOM is, and I’ll tell you The Vicar of Dibley, for moments like this. 48D: Like an Oscars afterparty - LAISH.34A: Separate from all the others, say - REMOE.
#LIKE AN OSCARS AFTERPARTY CROSSWORD TV#
This Thursday’s NYT has a pretty straightforward theme - the four circled squares in the grid are TV SPOTS ( “Many P.S.A.s … or the four circled squares in this grid?”), and as such, either a T or a V fits for the clued words: Zachary Spitz’s New York Times crossword-Ben’s review I ended up enjoying this theme, but the surrounding fill sapped its strength to a degree. (Apparently he’s number 9 on the all-time list of players with the largest hands.) I didn’t know NBAer KAWHI Leonard, but I don’t mind learning about him. I would much rather solve a puzzle with six themers in addition to the revealer so that the grid would have room for cleaner, sparklier fill. It continues with ATILT, EX-ARMY, ONE-D, AD MAN, and plural OTS on top of crossword staples ONO, EMILE, ETHANE, ECO, EOS, EDY, etc. With the four pairs of theme answers and the 15-letter revealer, there’s only one other pair of longish answers: TIE SCORE and ACADEMIA (both very nice).īut the heavy load of theme material is felt in the fill starting off with ALB at 1a. I still don’t quite buy that it’s a commonly accepted phrase, but as the basis for a puzzle-like I said-it does the job. I was mostly lost after the first four entries looking for the missing letters, but getting the aha moment made the bottom half of the grid much more smooth.
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