![]() They allowed me to kick back and have a blast with tricky, evocative and/or wordplay-inspired cluing. Or, if I needed to use something vowel-heavy, I'd resort to a new, cool-to-learn word like ÉCORCHÉ.įinally, I've brought this up before, but it was delightful to bake in common words like ETHICS, TAXING, ENERGY, PIGTAIL, PRICES, DATING / PETUNIA / INEXACT, etc. So I hunched that if I, for instance, stacked the Scrabble-icious™ GROUCHY under POP QUIZ, it'd lead to fresher results with rarer letter combos. Answers like A LA MODE and ENTENTE traditionally appear in slots like 15-Across, to hold together zippier 7s on either side. To aspiring constructors taking notes: My strategy mostly revolved around using answers in the middle of the stacks that, well, you'd be surprised to find in the middle while solving. I'm not saying every last one of these is so sparkly (looking at you, GATEMAN and CARTAGE … and, believe me, it hurts to use DERE!), but hopefully nothing here makes you deep sigh and say, "I'm so damn tired of seeing this in puzzles." ![]() A challenge to pack so much juice into each corner without relying on overfamiliar, pedestrian answers like ESTATES or TSETSES, or short gluey bits to hold the longer pizazz together. A challenge to make every last 6-, 7-, 8- and 9-letter answer fresh, peculiar and/or fun to clue. Whew, was this grid a challenge, all right. ![]() Give me a challenge! Force me to use my imagination to pull off a technical marvel! My solvers deserve a formidable-looking Saturday, which would then be extra satisfying to solve! I'd always been so interested in the "How low can you go?" word count quests or asking myself, "How wide open can I possibly make this corner while still retaining good fill?" This pattern of so many shorter interlocking 7s, a classic grid skeleton, never appealed much to me as a constructor. This puzzle today feels different, though. According to XWord Info, more than 60% of my standard, non-variety crossword publications have appeared on a Friday or Saturday. This isn't news to the real ones who've solved my stuff for years. Civil rights leader who had a dream: Abbr.I'm a THEMELESS JUNKIE (15).Tiny dust particle Daily Themed Crossword.It may be used to steer a steed Daily Themed Crossword.We've _ our separate ways Daily Themed Crossword.Start to York or Jersey Daily Themed Crossword.Disappointed tongue-clicking sound Daily Themed Crossword.Tarzan's caretaker? Daily Themed Crossword.Soapmaking staple Daily Themed Crossword.Liquor paired with tonic Daily Themed Crossword.Babysitter's terrorizer Daily Themed Crossword.Lil _ X who sang Industry Baby Daily Themed Crossword.Turn a grape into a raisin say Daily Themed Crossword.Relatives of crocodiles informally Daily Themed Crossword.Neckwear offered at a luau Daily Themed Crossword.Discarded piece of fabric or metal Daily Themed Crossword._ Maldini Italian soccer legend Daily Themed Crossword. ![]()
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