I also liked STORM DRAIN, which was squeezed into eight boxes. MOUSSAKA and CARTHAGE are nice eight-letter entries. MARGARET FARRAR could be a “huh?” entry for some solvers, but she deserves her spot in the limelight. Most of the long entries are theme answers, and those are all rock-solid. What? I’m not in the puzzle today? Get my lawyer on the phone. Read about all the Pre-Shortzian editors at the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project. She oversaw the puzzle from 1942 to 1969. The first crossword editor at The New York Times. I like that one of the ST strings is split between two words. This puzzle just got an automatic 5-star rating.
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Colonel Klink from my favorite TV show, Hogan’s Heroes. That second “ FOR” sounds funny, doesn’t it? Probably because the strip is Canadian. He put those two-letter strings into rebus squares, and bingo, an excellent Sunday puzzle is born. Patrick found a bunch of phrases that each contain four repeated two-letter strings (“Two-by-Fours”). And it might be fun to rate your favorite constructors and see how they stack up in the various categories. I guess the point of this digression is that I think Patrick Berry is the epitome of a five-tool constructor.
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” (Read the full “sparkle” essay over at ). In a nutshell, sparkle means that “something has to be interesting about. “Sparkle” is a term coined by the great Manny Nosowky. My proposed five crossword tools are: creating themed puzzles, creating themeless puzzles, building grids, writing clues, and sparkle. I’ve been thinking about applying the five-tool concept to crossword constructors. The five “tools” were hitting for average, hitting for power, speed, throwing, and fielding. (Anything to avoid actual schoolwork…) Anyway, back in the day, baseball scouts were looking for five-tool players.
I not only knew 90% of the guys on major league rosters, but I studied top prospects in the minor leagues. You know what that means: a baseball post! In high school & college, I was a ginormous baseball fan. Amy’s away, so the substitute bloggers will play. NY Times crossword solution, 6 23 13 “Two-by-Fours”
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