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I don’t know how I never saw the connection between the play and the show. AREA MAN. Love when the Onion makes a clue appearance.I was thinking along the lines of “The dog isn’t missing…” “The dog… has?” Oh wait… it works in this sense: “He isn’t missing his keys” “He has his keys” Ok. I’m still having trouble seeing HAS as a perfect substitute for. The BOATED/OPT IN/CRASH ON/HAS/TELETHON/ODDITIES area fell last for me and took a lot of elbow grease. It took me a while before I convinced myself it was RITES. I think it’s a bit deceiving of fill-in-the-blank entries to mess around with plurals. Of course I wanted RITE, but I didn’t enter it because it was calling for five letters.

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Here’s a partial list of new ones for me after a quick scan of the completed grid: Cornelius DREBBEL, SUNI LEE (I just looked her up… looks like her full first name is SUNISA), DOLMA, AVILA, ESTEBAN Ocon (took me a while to see, despite my nephew’s name being ESTEBAN). All fairly crossed and fun to figure out. I can’t say I would feel the same if I didn’t trust the constructor. So when I pass through the clues the first time and can only confidently enter a small handful of answers, not only is that a good thing. What I mean is that I *know* that when I’m solving a Berry or a Birnholz puzzle that it will come together, and it will be satisfying. It’s interesting how knowing the constructor’s work influences how I feel during the solve, however. For me, that is almost always the case with Patrick Berry “difficult” themeless puzzles. And somehow, it all fits together eventually. My favorite kind of themeless is one where I feel like I don’t know any of the clues. I love to show off my minimal sports knowledge. 97A SHORTSTOP. The diamond being the baseball field.15D THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY! Another fun one.4D DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! Took me forever to see this one, but those long pillars are so satisfying to enter, aren’t they?.WaPo crossword solution * 8 21 22 * “Themeless No. In the comments, let us know your favorite entries!Įvan Birnholz’s Washington Post crossword, “Hearsay”- Jim Q’s write-up – 4D: AREA – Clever! Length x width (or side x side)Ī super joyful solving experience and #constructorgoals feelings from someone who only wishes they could build puzzles that play this smoothly. – 57D: NEOPRONOUNS – What are NEOPRONOUNS, you ask? Read up on them here! Here were some of my favorite of the longer entries: Perhaps the only square I truly had trouble with was at the crossing of ARGOTS and PASSACAGLIA, but I was glad to learn of both entries and intuited the G correctly. Bravo to the pair! What a smooth grid, indeed. It’s tough to do a themeless well, much less one this open and with so many incredible long entries.