It's certainly the thing that made me happiest (I'm a sucker for good sports slang) ( 16A: Fans that jeer the home team, informally). BOOBIRDS is probably the best thing in this grid. Glad I got that sorted, if only for today. Toughest part of the puzzle for me was the NE, where I had Tom CRUISE over a DRUMKIT instead of Tom CLANCY (7A: Tom who created Jack Ryan) over a DRUMPAD (14A: Something to practice percussion on). It is commonly associated with Thanksgiving. The turkey is bowled down a smooth surface, for example, ice or a soap covered sheet of painters plastic (using a bar of soap). Turkey bowling is a sport which is based on ordinary bowling : a frozen turkey serves as a bowling ball and 10 plastic bottles of soft drinks or water are the bowling pins. A "turkey" is three strikes in a row, which I knew, but which it took me two googles to confirm, because the first google led me here: It is something, you "pick up." You roll a spare, you roll a strike, but you pick up a split. A "split" is a "situation" it precedes your "roll." It is not, itself, something you roll. Here, I'll let wikipedia help:Ī split is a situation in ten pin bowling in which the first ball of a frame knocks down the headpin ("number 1 bowling pin ") but leaves standing two or more non-adjacent groups of one or more pins. sitting there in front of you, even before you "roll," and then you, the bowler, have to pick it up (by, ironically, knocking pins down). A strike and spare are effects of the roll itself, whereas a "split" is just. You "pick up" a split, you don't "roll" one. Also, I'm no bowler, but a SPLIT is more of a situation. Or, maybe it was adequate in the '90s, but it's definitely past its expiration date now. But it's a themed puzzle, and this one is not good. If this were a themeless puzzle, I'd be singling it out for praise. SPLIT SCREEN on its own is a nice answer. I guess from an architectural standpoint, it's a little impressive, but from a solving standpoint, this theme is still very, very tired. Solvers on the NYT app should enter NOTHING or just N into the blank squares.This old thing? Are we doing bowling terms again? Whyyyyyyy though? Maybe driving the revealer, BOWLING ALLEY, through all of the themers is supposed to add novelty to the concept, and. If there had been fewer shaky parts of the grid, it would have been a POW! for sure. Neat way to stack MUCHADO/ABOUT/NOTHING, too.
Such a magnificent concept the perfect way to execute on this idea. That's a structure put together by a crane (bird), not a crane (machine). Helped to make up for some of the short glue I had to wade through.įantastic clue for NEST. I loved getting THE ROBOT, some yummy SCHMEAR, and even ANAGRAMS, with an homage to crosswords of the past. of organic chemistry, says that he never used the term when teaching - it was always "O-chem" - but his former students now use ORGO exclusively in their text messages. ADDED NOTE: Reader Larry Byrd, a retired prof. I took a lot of organic chemistry, but I couldn't remember anyone ever calling it ORGO. It's so difficult to fill around fixed shapes. Will Shortz recently mentioned that he's shying away from puzzles that have themers making patterns in grids like this, because of the glue they force. SSRS at the top of your grid isn't a great way to headline, and there was enough ABBR ISR OFA STS YRS - all things called out on editors' spec sheets - to bog me down. That did necessitate some trade-offs, though. I don't think it was necessary to place all the bubbled words symmetrically, but it added a touch of elegance. Note how consistent he was in his orientations, the synonyms always starting in the west and traveling clockwise: FRACAS, FUSS, HUBBUB, UPROAR, STIR, RUMPUS.
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I also appreciate the new initiative of sending the puzzle PDF to constructors a couple weeks before publication so that we can let the editors know if there are any changes we would like to be made. Thanks, as always, to the editorial team for their work I especially like the clue, which they added.
The interlocking geometry of the theme entries is simply incompatible with many words (including some of my favorites: BALLYHOO, BROUHAHA, HULLABALOO, and HURLY-BURLY - it seems that certain letters really evoke a commotion!). Without that flexibility, I might not have been able to fill the grid, because this type of theme is very constraining. It's a common answer, so this gave me many options.
To brainstorm potential words for the loops, I went on XWord Info to look up all the ways that ADO has been clued in past crosswords. This puzzle finally gave me the chance to do it! Ever since solving David Steinberg's excellent FROOT LOOPS puzzle, I've thought about using some sort of loop-based trick.
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