I got a good foothold in the SE, worked back to the NW and then finally wrestled the SW into submission after the corner Monopoly square came to mind and I passed Go and collected my $200 SALARY.Ī super Saturday for me.the hold up was GEENA Davis refusing to give it up for REESE.But she did, finally.for a FIR. Hopefully it’s a pleasant solve for folks and not too painful. So guilty as charged but a low word count is going to bring about its share of constructor staples to get things done. I think affixes are worse than crosswordese as they’re parts of words. ETUI, HAP, ERSE, ESTER and the prefix IDEO- are not the finest entries in the world. That being said I try to avoid it at all costs. It can also give a seasoned solver an entry into a puzzle. It potentially keeps words alive that might otherwise completely disappear – it happens all the time. First, I don’t think crosswordese is necessarily a bad thing. Learning moment for this non-fan of Mozart.Ī quick guilty-of-crosswordese-list. I really like “Mozart’s mother” over my original clue “Horsford of ‘Amen’” – what can I say? I loved “Amen!” But I also really love classical music and can’t wait to get back to the symphony and opera. I have to say I like to my clue for the seed entry “” only because it reminds me of Fat Tony playing that tiny violin on “The Simpsons.”īreakdown of what was completely changed, somewhat changed and unchanged is roughly equal across all three categories. I don’t care for the smaller corners from a design point-of-view but I like themeless grids to have a little stretch to the entries so it was a painful compromise. This is my first attempt at such a stack. It vanished when another venue used it in a (themed) puzzle but reappeared when I wanted to design a themeless with a central stack. In this case that entry is TOO BAD SO SAD, which had been on my radar for a while. Sometimes constructors begin with a grid design and fill it accordingly but usually there’s a seed entry that the puzzle is built around. I really enjoy making themeless puzzles and I think they are the most satisfying to solve. It was taken in 2018 in Gatineau, Quebec - when we could still visit casinos.
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