![]() ![]() The bizarrely bigoted billionaire child's author gets a cutesy shoutout at 36D: School where students learn to spell? ( HOGWARTS), so that's gross. SEXY ELF is creepy and leering, the way most "sexy" costumes are (sure, theoretically the SEXY ELF could be a man, but come on). #FAHRAR CROSSWORD EDITOR PLUS#So the puzzle shape is interesting, that's another check in the Plus column. They you've got mirror symmetry instead of the usual rotational symmetry, so the quotation parts are all an even number of letters long so they can all sit dead center in their respective rows. The grid is 14x16 instead of the usual 15x15 in order to accommodate MARGARET FARRAR's 14-letter span. She was also the last woman to edit the puzzle. The only upside I can see to this puzzle at all is that it will teach those who didn't know already who the first editor of the New York Times Crossword Puzzle was. Today's quotation leans more toward the latter-a completely banal and (worse) self-congratulatory statement that at best is going to elicit a smug "ah, yes, so true" or a wry half-chuckle. Usually you end up with some groaner pun or some Hallmark-level sentiment. ![]() funny or surprising or clever enough) to justify the whole enterprise. 2x nails on chalkboard, actually, since first, it's a quote puzzle, and those are almost never fun-their very nature makes them hard to solve (clues don't give you any pertinent content info and it's very hard to imagine what a random sentence is going to be) and the quotation is almost never strong enough (i.e. Well, maybe *you* can't think of your troubles while solving a crossword, but I write about the damn thing every day, so if the crossword is bad, then the crossword is my trouble? The very concept of this puzzle was nails on a chalkboard to me. ![]()
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