Ny times crossword editor5/2/2023 Idiomatic WET NOODLE!Īdmittedly I wasn’t familiar with KIIARA (“Gold” apparently hit #13 on Billboard), or with the ONE-EARED nature of mantises. See also Aly RAISMAN next to KING PRIAM, or the juxtaposition of biology’s ALLELES – the real-world REAL FRIEND – fashion’s Bruno MAGLI – casual SPOSE. That it’s right next to Nobelist SEAMUS Heaney highlights just how much can be fit into a grid. PERIOD UNDERWEAR is a great entry made even better by a great clue. But here we’ve got almost a themed-grid shape around the edges and then, almost nothing in the middle. I’m hard-pressed to remember a grid with so much long stuff hitting the middle - typically below 70 words we’ve got stairstacks in the middle, wide-open corners without a lot of connectivity, or a diagonal streak of blocks through the center to help segment the grid. I can’t remember ever not loving the heck out of a Wyna themeless, but this may be one of my favorites. Wyna Liu’s Inkubator crossword solution, “Themeless 40,” 2/16/23 Wyna Liu’s Inkubator crossword, “Themeless 35″-Matthew’s write-up If you thought this was salacious, that’s on you! I am weary of entries like GASP AT, which append a 2-letter word to form a phrase that is maybe not a dictionary-grade sort of entry. If you’re a language nerd with a little bit of Cyrillic alphabet knowledge (like I picked up from Encyclopedia Brown-I know I’m not the only one!), check out some Sporcle quizzes like this and that. Other fave fill: ABOUT-FACES (plural feels a little weird), PIZZA STONES, potato LATKES, VAMPIRE BAT, SLEAZEBALL, AFFLUENZA (which seems like a “get over yourself” issue), SIZZLED, and BOLEYN. You might be asking, What the heck is a puzzle box? Watch the Netflix movie Glass Onion to see a wild example of one (and stay for the Natasha Lyonne cameo mentioning crosswords-both she and director Rian Johnson are puzzle people). This puzzle played harder than I expected. NY Times crossword solution, 2 17 23, no.
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