![]() Females account for about 35% of debuting constructors.ģ) WS reads 3 out of 4 daily NYTimes puzzle blogs, along with their comments, which he finds helpful as feedback. About 15% of submissions are by female constructors. Some interesting tidbits:ġ) At one point Will Shortz pronounced "leitmotif" as "leet-motif", which was surprising, and wrong.Ģ) WS is not on staff at the Times he was given the choice to be on staff when he was hired, but opted to be a freelance employee and ergo does not receive standard employee benefits.Ģ) WS would like to have more female constructors represented. I liked SPITSHINED the best of the pre-op theme answers.īTW, the interview between Gary Cee and Will Shortz from earlier this week is posted at XWord Info. There's a stray EYE hanging out next to the LEG. The theme entries and fill were basically fine, if not of wowza caliber. So hey, our very own Old Timer made it into the grid today! I've never played Operation, though I knew it existed, so I had no idea what the red dot was supposed to represent until I googled the game afterward. a play on "He was some critic!" (Pretty bad pun, it's true.) ![]() You misread the 92a clue – so did I at first – by seeing an "a" in there. Good day.ġ2:40 thumbs up on the Sam Cooke video. Is that a pun?! If so, on what!? "Film"? "Dumb"? And why is there an exclamation point on the clue!? Still, despite many hiccups, the overall solve was smooth, and mildly entertaining. I get that EBERT used a thumb-rating system, but I still don't get-get the clue ( 92D: He was a "thumb" critic!). some of them? Sand crabs, maybe? Am I thinking of snails? Ugh. Had MERLOT for MALBEC, duh ( 2D: Red wine from France). Thought a was a CRAB at first (don't they carry. ![]() I'm at a loss as to how / why anyone would say INCEPT. Is this from the movie "Inception"? It's like the worst of businessspeak meets the worst of scifi. Who uses that as a verb? Oof, no, stop it. INCEPT is super awful ( 89D: Plant, as an idea, modern-style). 5D: Post production locales? for NEWSROOMS is very good, even though I didn't really get it at first pass (Post here refers to the Washington Post. And how is TRÈS an "affected" VERY? It's a French VERY. Like, for RIVER, maybe, but specifically NILE? Lots of rivers are dammed. Whatever, the "O" was the only real problem and IGOR sorted it. I was a teen in the '80s, why is a writer who wrote teen fantasy novels in the '80s not ringing a bell? Gah. TAMORA Pierce is clearly a reasonably successful writer, but. ![]() Sikorsky? That can't be right." And it wasn't. yeah, SHANDONG is real, everyone! 100 million people real!ĭo y'all know TAMORA Pierce ( 53D: Author Pierce of the fantasy series "The Song of the Lioness"), 'cause I sure as heck didn't, and so that little western section was ATAD scary. Made a mental note to myself to go back and check that area, but then when I filled in the last square at the bottom of the grid (somewhere in the SW), I got the Mr. Lost the better part of a minute, probably, just trying to figure out where I'd screwed up. When I got that answer all filled in, I kept checking and rechecking to see what I had wrong, because I figured it had to be something. My one and only serious problem today was SHANDONG, which, I have to confess, I've never heard of (or, I have, and I forgot it). Also, why is your LIP next to your LUNG? Whatever, I actually don't care that much about body part placement-it's the concept that drives this thing, and the concept is solid: remove body part to get right answer (yeah, removal gets you *wrong* answers in the crosses, but you can't have everything in this life, and what you get here is fine). ![]() not the stuff that's available for removal in the actual game. The body parts are already off-book, i.e. Is this all the art there is? It's a cute little touch, but it doesn't really make the grid feel much more overall like the game board. If you found the data or information on this page useful in your research, please use the tool below to properly cite or reference Word Squared as the source.So looks like the app (and maybe the actual paper?) has a big red dot in it where the "patient"'s nose is supposed to be-the nose that lights up when you screw up the Operation with your dumb wobbly non-doctor's hands. We spend a lot of time collecting, cleaning, merging, and formatting the data that is shown on the site to be as useful to you as possible. Hopefully this tool has helped you to find the correct answer to your Old Russian ruler known as "The Moneybag" crossword clue.ĭon't forget to come back next time you need help to find more answers to your crossword problems. Russian ruler three before the "Terrible" one 14th-century Russian ruler called "the Moneybag" ![]()
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