![]() ![]() I thought of “obit,” but we’re driving here you need to keep an eye on your LANE when passing other cars.ĨD: I first thought “Anastasia,” but her mother ALEXANDRA is the notorious ruler in question - a critical figure in World War I history as well as Rasputin’s devout patron.ĩ4D: My crystal ball says this little entry will mystify, but it’s been wrong before. FUJI, but the “Goya” referred to is the brand behind un millón de FRIJOLES.Ĩ4A: There are some very nice puns slipped into this grid. Joes,” clicked with me only after the reveal maybe this will save a gold star for someone else.Ī few new ones on me include ELM (it feels like there may soon be more programming languages than actual trees) and a couple of old favorites - ELLICE and ENATIC, which were popular in puzzles until the 1980s but have dropped off a word cliff.ģ3A: Who here did not think “ Francisco” and then “portrait,” maybe, or “great art” (with a shrug)? It’s fiendish that this entry crosses some actual great art, Hokusai’s views of MT. I had to give up and check my grid because of one silly mistake that I probably wouldn’t have noticed on paper: I had “kiran” instead of KIRIN, and read right over the clue about “Joe and co, e.g.” - “gas” makes no sense, does it? GIS, for “G.I. I’ll be brief because the theme explanation is so verbose, but there’s a lot of flair in the clue set today, interesting trivia in every corner. We hope this will make it easier for players to find and join the conversation, and receive help getting to Genius if needed. Your host is the associate editor of Wordplay, Isaac Aronow, and the hint grid is made by Doug Mennella, a longtime Wordplay reader who is known to us as “Doug from Tokyo.” Eastern, when the new Spelling Bee puzzle publishes. On Monday, July 26, Spelling Bee players will be given a daily forum of their own, right here on Wordplay. After all, the title of this puzzle is “Star Search!” We are counting down to the Spelling Bee Discussion. Deitmer’s debut was with The Inkubator try it here, if you’re enamored with today’s solve. (Those were fun puzzles and there’s very little digital evidence of them, unfortunately.) She started constructing only a couple of years ago, mainly for independent puzzle publications, which are great venues for constructors and solvers alike - a chance to catch new talent coming up, or solve a puzzle by a constructor you know and like that doesn’t go into the Times’s rotation. TREAT WITH A CUPPA CROSSWORD FREESUNDAY PUZZLE - Today’s complex creation is a debut from Chandi Deitmer, a social worker in the fields of psychiatry and geriatrics, who got into solving via The Onion, back when you could get a free copy from a box on the corner. ![]()
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