Newsday crossword solution, 11 17 12 “Saturday Stumper” Lester Ruff Lester Ruff’s less rough Newsday crossword, “Saturday Stumper” I’m going to go with 4.5 stars for the sheer number of pleasant 15s in this grid, minus 1 star because I’m a curmudgeon. But, as with all quad-stack puzzles, there is some compromising fill to gripe about: Charles READE rears his convenient head (you may know him better as the author of The Cloister and the Hearth - or not at all) OMY is ungood when I think of TATAS, I’ll admit that my first thought isn’t ELYSE Keaton of “Family Ties” reifies her status as ’80s TV’s most crosswordese matriarch I’m not sure if I’m supposed to have heard of a SEINER before (etymologically related to the Seine, I’m assuming?) and there’s the pair of AMOVE and ANEAR (Guess which one is a partial?). The 15s are mostly sparkling, as are many of the 8s ( MEATAXES, AVEMARIA, YEASAYER). Again, a successful misdirection! Maybe those of you who don’t wear glasses/contacts weren’t fooled? This phrase is more familiar to me as “castles in the sky,” but that might just be an idiosyncratic back-formation from the Miyazaki film of nearly the same name. Were you expecting a President or Prime Minister too? What possible set of circumstances could have led to this? Tennessee Tuxedo was perhaps Don Adams’ finest role - disagree if you dare. Like Clippy, the Word “helper,” for example. Microsoft Word gives the word “unsentimentally” a red squiggle, but I can think of many things that I remember unsentimentally. Sounds like a good name for a jazz/funk band. Not a particularly Scrabbly entry, but it’ll do. Much more hilarious when followed by a question mark. That’s eight 15s in a weekday puzzle - impressive, no? Let’s go through them together, shall we? What’s new, to me at least, are the two 15s running vertically. This is exactly the grid I think of when I think of a Martin Ashwood-Smith puzzle: 15×16, anchored by a quad stack of 15s in the center and flanked by two 15s on top and bottom. LAT Puzzle 11.17.12 by Martin Ashwood-Smith Martin Ashwood-Smith’s Los Angeles Times crossword-Andy’s review But other contenders were READ UP ON, RAN AROUND, OTTUMWA, and IT’S OK. Tres chic.įavorite entry = DIRT CHEAP, something. This is quite the fashion-forward grid–we have a SKORT, an A-LINE dress, a reference to a turtle-neck in the clue for NAPE, and DONNA.
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