HAIKI PART CROSSWORD CLUE TV

HA as I mentioned, I didn’t look at too many of the down clues as I solved, which I’m now sad about because it means I entirely missed the amazing clue/answer pair of 47d for GAY ICON.That being said! The pieces of long fill that are in this puzzle are great.I was able to knock most of them out just looking at the clues in a single direction, and then visually confirming that the crosses were real words. I think that might have to do with the amount of short fill throughout the puzzle, particularly in the corners. This puzzle skewed very, very easy for me – basically nothing slowed me down.I thought the answer was going to be something like “indoor cat”. LITTLE SPOON took me a while to see because I didn’t understand the meaning of “inside” in the clue. Great title, and great set of theme answers! The first two answers fell with basically no crosses for me – I’m curious if this puzzle is much harder for folks who didn’t immediately know GENIE IN A BOTTLE. The theme answers are oriented vertically so these words are at the bottom of the puzzle. Theme: Each theme answer ends with a word that can precede “feed”. What I didn’t know before I did this puzzle: that EMINEM was elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year.Įrica Hsiung Wojcik & May Huang’s USA Today Crossword, “Bottom Feeders” - Sophia’s recap We can send the Fireball off to its summer break with a happy smile. It’s creative, consistent, and fun to solve. I love the fact that the squares next to the “holes” have three letters while the ones further away have only two. I made this one harder than it needed to be because I thought the key was F instead of A. So smart.įireball, July 27, 2022, Jack Murtagh, “Laws of Attraction,” solution grid The black squares – one particular configuration – are the black holes, so the words get more compressed as they get closer. In my late-night solving session, I thought HOLE would appear in the rebus. I could tell there was a rebus, and indeed there is. Tried again this morning and poof! all became clear. I was happy and relaxed and could not for the life of me figure out what was going on even after I got the revealer. I tried to do this puzzle Wednesday night after a lovely day wandering around coastal Rhode Island and reconnecting with old friends. Jack Murtagh’s Fireball Crossword, “Laws of Attraction” – Jenni’s write-up

HAIKI PART CROSSWORD CLUE TV

Here are many many many years’ worth of BBC 2 Idents ( 32D, “Largest TV network in the world, by number of employees”) The down clues are all correctly clued for CAGING, ORATE, REC, EKING, SWELL, and RAID. Taking each of the circled letters along with 69A, we get CUT CORNERS, which is what needs to happen to parse each of the wrapped across answers correctly.

69A: With the circled letters, a hint to solving seven Across clues - CUT.

47A: 1985 benefit concert watched by nearly two billion people - LIVEAID.35A: Rumble in the Jungle promoter - DON KING.9A: Class now known as Family and Consumer Sciences, informally - HOMEEC.1A: Like some face creams and serums, supposedly - ANTIAGING.Today’s NYT is a collab between Bill Pipal and Jeff Chen that’s cute, once you piece it all together.Ī bunch of entries in the grid wrap around one of the circled squares, skipping the circled letter, which otherwise spells out valid entries both across and down:

Not crazy about sexist-sounding MINXES, but I will note there is a current HBO comedy titled Minx which generally gets favorable reviews and was renewed for a second season.

Neither holds a candle to a fresh, ripe mango though. Gotta say I’m not a big fan of PAPAYAS, but at least they’re better than guavas. TIGGER is a fun way to start a grid, and we also get SPINAL TAP, PAPA BEAR, AIRSTRIP, PACE LAP, and tropical PAPAYAS.

The aha moment I was rewarded with was quite satisfying, and I appreciate the extra layer to the theme. It took quite a while for the penny to drop, despite the fact that I was staring RETTU at 6d for a long time. That’s not to say I picked up on the gimmick very easily. Each phrase is well in-the-language, and each “speak” word is used differently in its base phrase.

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