winningvast.blogg.se - Crossword editor will wong

45D: Receives an anesthetic, perhaps - GOEDER.

57A: Labor group for athletes - PLAYERION.

34D: Catastrophic weather event potentially caused by a meteor crash - MEGATAMI.

56A: Followers of the largest denomination of Islam - NIS.

13D: Puccini aria popularized by Pavarotti - NES DORMA.

20A: Annual pageant winner - MISIVERSE.

Max Chen Lauring is behind today’s NYT, and we’ve got a SOLAR/ECLIPSE on our hands ( 30D: “With 41-Across, a celestial event … or a hint to four squares in this puzzle”)Īs suggested, four black squares in the puzzle can be treated as a blocked-out SUN, affecting both the across and down answers: Nothing against any of these words in particular (except maybe APEMAN), but it got to be a repetitive drag that could have been alleviated (ha!) with one fewer theme entry and a refresh of the fill.

I was beginning to wonder if this wasn’t part of the theme. That’s 18 out of 76 words for nearly 24% of the fill.

MILNE, ASPIRE, APEMAN, ADELA, ATARI, ALDRIN, ACE, APEX, and AXES. How do I log thee? Let me count the A’s: AVAUNT, ARID, ANALYST, ARAB, AVEC, AVER, AVON, AARON, AMORE, A.A. Our long entries are SHEEREST and UPRISING, not the sparkliest of fare. Looking at the fill I’m thinking it could’ve been improved with fewer themers. As for the yuks? Well, none for me, sadly, maybe you fared better. It’s a subtlety, and the casual solver might not catch on, but I’m in favor of the tighter theme. In other words, the “gap” between the S and the P is the issue in this puzzle. Note that all the second words start with P, and that explains the title which we can now re-parse as “S-to-P Gap”. I was going to complain about the lack of consistency (the apostrophe issue) and the desire for another constraint to tighten things up when I noticed that there is another constraint.

Time Magazine? New York Times? Not sure on this one. There’s the pot we were missing yesterday!