Theme: All the theme answers “take” their clue number as the first word of the answer. Did not know that name.Īndrew McIntyre’s Universal crossword, “Take a Number” - Sophia’s write-up Better to clue it this way for the original place in Ukraine, the preferred spelling is now ODESA.
In a rush today, so I’ll just hit a few notes: Mostly these are distracting than dingworthy. SUN above IRE.Ĭouldn’t help noticing: SHOWER is also a type of weather, 65a TRAIN contains RAIN, SNOW PEAS crosses IT’S NO WONDER, and that three of the four sets are four letters long, and one is but three letters long. They are each situated directly beneath a segment of a longer entry that can be parsed as weather phenomenon. We have a bunch of short entries with the same clue. I’m currently at a conference in Chicago, so it was a great way for me to PAUSE for a minute to catch my breath.Ĭhristina Iverson’s Los Angeles Times crossword - pannonica’s write-up This puzzle would definitely 27d VIBE for me. 29d – It wasn’t until after I finished solving that I saw DOWN in the answers, and it’s just fun to me that DOWN is a DOWN answer.I’d also planned on getting THAI food for dinner, and so 5a feels like the universe is affirming my decision. 9d – Who says you can’t build your entire life based on crossword recommendations? Here I am, thinking of High School Musical and feeling excited to READ Girl, WOMAN, Other, which looks and sounds like a beautiful book.I also loved NEWS REPORTER’s symmetric counterpart, 21d BREAK DANCING. However, the mid-section stack of RAMS – ADVERB – TRIP helped out quite a bit. 3d – This was the most difficult of the NW Down answers for me to fill since I wanted it to be JOURNALIST, which is obviously too short.High School Musical immediately started playing in my head as I filled in 40a WE’RE, and that will ECHO throughout my head today. I was sporadic throughout the rest of the puzzle needing some confirmation on 28a because ADDLE didn’t feel right at first. As a result, the crosses filled in the NW corner pretty smoothly. I was kicking myself for not remembering MSN from the start, but I usually flip to Down answers if I don’t get 1a right off the bat. Funnily enough, it was EDGES that fixed it for me, a nice reminder of the need for the answer’s EDGES to spell LAND. LAGS BEHIND also fell into place easily, but I had LAST MINUTE instead of LAST SECOND at first. I started to fill in FALL SOLSTICE instead of LABOR DAY WEEKEND at first but quickly realized that that didn’t make sense before putting in LABOR DAY WEEKEND. While literally outlandish in their spellings, these themers were really solid. Rafael Musa’s USA Today crossword, “Outlandish” solution for The number is (800) 656-4673 and they have chat available at .ĭavid Steinberg’s New York Times crossword–Amy’s recap For those who don’t know, RAINN is the National Sexual Assault hotline. What I didn’t know before I did this puzzle: that Tori AMOS is a spokesperson for RAINN.
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