![]() Invite friends and family over for a night of glamour, red carpet fashion and awards announcements. And it’s reason enough to host a party at home. Kids these days.įun, interesting theme, with top-notch execution.The Oscars show is one of the most highly anticipated events of the year, particularly here in Southern California. (And Finn has been working for Columbia University.) SWOLE … that's modern lingo for "bulked up"? Huh. MOOC is apparently a "massive open online course." Thank goodness all the crossings were gettable. It's not often possible to get themers to cross like this, but when it is, it often makes the construction so much easier. Intersecting pairs of theme answers (MODEL YODEL and KOSHER NOSHER, HATCH WATCH and GARDEN WARDEN was really smart - if HATCH WATCH had to be worked in horizontally, it would have infringed upon one of the other themers in the bottom half of the puzzle. PRO SURFER (I lurve surfing), IM SHOCKED, ACTUAL SIZE, GO TO PRESS, COUGH DROPS, ESCAPISTS, made my solve even more enjoyable. Not sure how much rework Natan had to go through in revisions, but it was well worth it.Īnd great bonus fill. LBOS (leveraged buyouts, which are 100% fine to this MBA).īeautiful work to keep it to just a few short, minor offenders. Even upon a post-solve scan, I could only find an OTRO. But I hardly paused at anything throughout my solve. Most Sunday 140-word puzzles have globs of crossword glue in them, stuff that most constructors need to stick everything together. Where I thought this puzzle shined was in its grid execution. At first I wondered why the theme clues were so long - I actually skipped them at first, tl dr - but then I got a smile when I realized what was going on. There are many, many pairs of words that display this property, so I appreciated the extra effort to work in faux-rhymes to the clues as well. And not only is BASELINE VASELINE a cool discovery, but the image of a baserunner slipping 'n sliding into second - and right past it - amused me to no end. Neat finds in KOSHER NOSHER, GARDEN WARDEN, HATCH WATCH. The Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) Crossword Class is back, with a theme involving words that seem like they should rhyme - each pair of words is identical, except for the first letter - but they don't. It looks a lot different than it did then hopefully any of the tournamentgoers who flitted by to guess the theme or offer a new entry have long forgotten, and so this is a brand new puzzle for them. Most of the JASA students attend the tournament, so we huddled around a laptop in the lobby, tinkering with the grid. One bright memory of this puzzle is the Sunday we spent working on it in Stamford, the weekend of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. ![]() Hopefully the fill's enjoyable, too we were happy to get some nice longer answers in there, and since we like modern language, Natan (having been charged with reworking a corner with some iffy answers) is glad to see SWOLE has kept its place on the team. We were pleased to have enough options to be able to cross themers in the SW and NE corners. ![]() We're particularly fond of the silly clues for KOSHER NOSHER and MASSAGE PASSAGE, both group efforts. Natan always likes adding layers of a theme to the clues, and the two of us and the class sat together in front of a long list of eye rhymes, composing absurd couplets. Finn kicked off the generation of this theme by finding the phrase BASELINE VASELINE, which we all thought was evocative of some umpish impishness.
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