All are common words and don't feel at all forced.
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If it isn't, it's really sloppy and shouldn't be in the puzzle to avoid this very confusion.Īgreed that the NE shows off how to do Scrabbly fill well. LEE a theme answer or no? If so, it doesn't have a symmetrical partner, which seems a little sloppy. The others aren't split across words to bump up the challenge a wee bit.Īlso a bit off: Is R.E. Of the six theme answers with the quotation, the word from the quote stands alone in the answer in three of them (I'm not counting the plural on ONE O FOURS as separate it's a plural to avoid a cheater square, as far as I can see). But the theme felt a bit off from what it perhaps could have been. I think Rex's description of "fine" works. I also feel it's a bit descriptive of the puzzle. TIN EAR is my favorite fill in this puzzle. Which is why s/he is the prominent constructor and I am not. *a prominent constructor friend of mine wrote me with the suggestions EARTH' S CORE and FLOPP Y EARS. OK, just twice, but that's a lot for a 91-year-old novel. The weirdest thing about this grid, to me, is how frequently Willa Cather's " ONE OF OURS" has been appearing lately. I couldn't tell one opera from another, and I'm not sure I knew GRAND OPERA was its own category, but still-easy to pick up from crosses. Maybe there are more … Flags? Signs? Spongebob appearances? Anyway, it's a term I'm familiar with, unlike MID-YEARS or WAGONFULS (which are inferable, at any rate). I'm not sure how a SALES EVENT is different from a sale. Two Xs and a Z and not a clunky answer in sight.
There's nothing subpar about the NE corner. Note: it's only "Scrabble-F**king" if the Scrabbly letter is forced in there simply for its own sake, and to the detriment of surrounding fill. There's just a low bar here, artistry-wise. Kind of hard to hide "YEARS," I'll grant you.* Still. I mean, hiding SCORE inside SCOREPAD? YEARS inside MID-YEARS? Not much hiding involved. A bit lackluster for someone as experienced as Mr. Too distracted by the JFK thing, I guess. I had no idea this anniversary was coming. Christmas Eve visitor crossword clue report this adDisclaimerĪll intellectual property rights in and to Crosswords are owned by The Crossword's Publisher.Four score and seven years and another three score and three years ago, this address was delivered."_ in the Water" (spiritual) crossword clue.Glass segments in a French door crossword clue.Connecticut's oldest university crossword clue.State where Salem and Portland are: Abbr.
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