, UNADON looks delish, but never seen it here.Whose flagship videogame character is Sonic the Hedgehog. , SLOWBU(TSUREL)Y is more idiomatic, and has a kind of a synergy with TURTLESUNDAE. , TOURNAMEN(TRULES) is a bit bland, and the clue is pretty awkward too. Google suggests it’s a bit like our “Chico the clown” sundae. A, TU(RTLESU)NDAE is a dish I haven’t heard of. , MIXEDRESULTS is the revealer of Wednesday’s puzzle by Brooke Husic, and each of three answers has the letters of RESULT scrambled and hidden somewhere. Did you feel the same?īrooke Husic’s LA Times crossword – Gareth’s theme summary The cluing for the third one was great and made it clear that it was the third once I got to it. YOGAMAT is draped over it and is of a similar length and the paired fours stacked below gave the illusion of a nonthemer for me today. Since themers tend to be all in one direction, it seemed likely that the third was an across as well but at first glance, there didn’t appear to be an obvious third themer, as they usually stick out a bit more. ![]() Great puzzle overall and grid, however all of lengthy bonus fill had me searching a little in the bottom half since the first two were in the top. Stumpers: NONOS (cluing had me thinking in more formal terms at first), KENO (needed crossings), and SPRANG (tried “sprung” first) Love this!įavorite fill: RIGHTS, YOGAMAT, HOMAGE, and SUCHISLIFE I slid right into HOMEGAMES when I rounded that base too. My first instinct for GIVEITSOMEGAS was “step on it” but that didn’t fit the pattern though based on a couple of crossings that I already had at the end, so I filled in the shared theme word then topped it off, so to speak. The cluing for INCOMEGAP honed me into that one immediately-always fun to fully lay down a themer right away. , H OMEGAMESĪ fun set of themers! Based on the title, my hunch for the commonality was correct and helped me fill them all in fairly easily. Theme: each themer contains the word OMEGA USA Today, September 28 2022, “Omega-3” by Zhouqin Burnikel Paolo Pasco’s New Yorker crossword–Amy’s recap The question mark ALERTs (3d) us that this is not about poetry. Could have been a bit more consistent such as being all types of cars, or all makes of cars. ![]() In which familiar words and phrases are reparsed, sort of like jockeying cars in a traffic jam. Jeff Stillman’s New York Times crossword-Amy’s recap Solid grid with a nice theme and lovely long fill. Got the latter part mostly by crossings then inferred the first part. I only know this term from the music company which maintains a database of information about compact discs and vinyl records. The King of Hearts is Charles VII of France who quite gruesomely committed suicide. ![]() Further, today I learned that the four kings are all based on four historical rulers. Never heard this term, and I had to guess (correctly, as it turned out) that we’re talking playing cards here. Those NE/SW stacks are especially impressive given their size and the presence of two theme entries. ![]() Plus the song RUNAWAY thrown in for good measure. We have two 9-stacks ( ARBORETUM/ GRACE NOTE and SOCCER FAN/ SPIELBERG) as well as the long crossings of TAKE A HIKE/ FRESH CREAM and SETH ROGEN/ SALT SHAKER. Solid theme and execution.Īs for the rest of the fill, it solves like a themeless, and a nice one at that. As for Sony, it’s known for making a lot more than cameras, so I would have gone with something else-Go Pro, maybe (it’s five letters long, too, like all the others). I mainly know Leica because my dad was a professional photographer, and he always wanted a Leica, but they were much too expensive. The camera brands are Canon, Nikon, Leica, and Sony.
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