![]() ![]() (So I guess this is more like volleyball, then!) As far as this puzzle is concerned, phrases are turned into puns when the letters “LET” are added to one of the words in the phrase. Unlike tennis and table tennis, we are playing the let here in this puzzle. Hello there, all! I hope you’re all doing well today and that you have great plans to close out the month of March in style. Gorski’s C r ♥ s s w ♥ r d Nation puzzle (Week 617), “Let It Be!”-Ade’s takeĬrossword Nation puzzle solution, Week 617: “Let It Be!” When is the last time you heard anyone shout “ RAH!” from the stands at a sporting event? For me, I think it’s never in 5+ decades.Įlizabeth C. Gunkiest fill in a Tuesday grid: foreign-vocab ALPE and A TOI a hardware T-NUT, which I just did a Google image search on and man oh man, I can’t say I’ve ever actually seen one, and they seem to come in a zillion different shapes, many not at all resembling the letter T. ![]() (Guns sure ruin a lot, even the crosswording experience.) I liked VRBO ( that’s short for vacation rental by owner), LOW-CUT, PIE HOLE, BAD-ASS, and IN THE BUFF. Here are a bunch of GIFs depicting the brow wipe, though, so maybe I just missed the boat on that term.įave fill: Might’ve included SHOOT-‘EM-UP if not for this morning’s latest school massacre. Head slap is similar but with a different flavor to it.įun theme, even with BROW WIPE not striking me as great. I’d go with *wipes brow* rather than this unfamiliar noun. The theme collects a bunch of gestural things that communicate various feelings: NY Times crossword solution, 3 28 23, no. I’ve been meaning to watch OLD but have not gotten around to it.ĭaniel Kantor & Jay Kaskel’s New York Times crossword–Amy’s recap 33A is a tricky clue – = REALTY (here, “field” means occupation). I initially had STOP IN before COME BY, but the crossings rectified that real quick and I didn’t really get hung up anywhere else. What am I supposed to see in this theme that is backing up or going in reverse that ties all of this together?Īside from the theme, the fill is very clean and this puzzle played very fast for me. I see the progression of PLAN > LANP > ANPL > NPLA > PLAN and the only pattern I see here is some type of leapfrogging thing. I see the grouped letters in P-L-A-N physically “moving” backwards from top-right to bottom-left… ok. ![]() I can’t make sense of how the letters in “plan” are backing up or being reversed. I must admit, I’m kind of baffled by this theme. I think the only thing being reversed here is the traditional arrangement of a crossword puzzle, because the reveal smacks you straight away with a longwinded clue at 18A – = BACKUP (PLAN). Universal Solution 03.27.23 – “Reverse Engineer” by Adam Simpson I get how the theme ties together, and maybe I’m being too nitpicky, but it doesn’t quite work for me.įill I enjoyed: SAN DIEGO (mainly because of the potential of a Carmen Sandiego clue) and RATITE. The term for a certain group of flightless birds comes from the latin ratis, meaning “raft.” The keel, a bone attached to the breastbone, is flat like a raft in ratites because it does not have to support all the chest muscles needed for flying.Īdam Simpson’s Universal Crossword – “Reverse Engineer” – Matt F’s write up If you want to be completely literal, the last of US is S. The last of each word or syllable is US, but the show isn’t THE LAST IS US. THE LAST OF USĮach word or syllable in the theme entries ends in US…but that doesn’t perfectly fit with THE LAST OF US to me. *plays “Just the Two of Us” in the background* Hello lovelies! Let’s see what is going on with this week’s Jonesin’ theme. ![]()
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