There’s also another Brit in the grid, as ALISTAIR MACLEAN is the 15-letter entry that holds the grid together in the middle (37A: ). That area also contains DORS, and I had just read about her interesting life as an actress – and host to sex parties – in Great Britain (1D: ). Really liked that entire northwest corner (outside of the “CSIS” entry), which included the nice long fill of RETALIATION (17A: ) and SARGASSO SEA (19A: ). Thank you for catering to your largely American audience!įor those who are fans of CSI, this was the perfect grid for you, with the star of CSI: Miami, DAVID CARUSO (1A: ) and CSIS, with the entries intersecting each other (6D: ). Speaking of honor and Canada, I might be the only one who found it humorous that a Canadian constructor, who would usually spell the word as “honour,” would have the American spelling of it inside of the grid, seen within the entry ON ONE’S HONOR (15A: ). Martin Ashwood-Smith, and, in the grid, there’s a shout-out to the Great White North with OTTAWA, a beautiful city that I had the honor of setting foot in about a decade ago (47D: ). Today’s crossword puzzle is brought to us by one of our favorite Canadian residents, Mr. Good morning, everyone! If you got your Halloween partying out of the way yesterday, I hope you had a fun time and/or won a prize for best costume at the get-together you might have gone to! Martin Ashwood-Smith’s Sunday Challenge CrosSynergy crossword -Ade’s write-upĬrosSynergy Sunday Challenge crossword solution, 10.30.16
There weren’t any bright spots in the surrounding fill, and a smattering of less than ideal entries like OCA, HANNAS, NOT OF, NENE, and UNCA. Maybe SCREAM OF WHEAT could’ve been, and GHOUL SCOUTS could’ve been. I was a little disappointed that the theme clues had three “monster”s and no other repeats. Had POD at 14d before arriving at the correct answer, GAM. That terminal D gives BROOD MATES for , which, while not particularly punny, does more accurately describe a group of witches living together, I think. Are they all living on the same broom? That seems uncomfortable at best. I don’t think ghosts have much to worry about w/r/t car crashes, though. LAT Puzzle 10.30.16, “Eekology 101,” by Joe Schewe Joe Schewe’s Los Angeles Times crossword, “Eekology 101″-Andy’s review Hope you all navigated those crossings if you’re newer to crosswords and were thrown by some of those. The grid, like most but not all 21×21 grids, is peppered with blah fill like OLEO OCTA SMEE ETON ALER RILL ESTE ILSA. Annual California music festival], COACHELLA. Players dress in fantasy costumes (perhaps period attire) and may romp about in the forest with, I dunno, swords? An immersive experience. Constructors! Please stop pluralizing AMINO. A moth with a 9″ wingspan: the stuff of nightmares or a thing of beauty? Oh! There was a giant Atlas moth at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum here in Chicago. The “home-wrecker” is coming from inside the house.) Anyway- here’s a performance where Dolly Parton is joined by Miley Cyrus to sing her classic, “Jolene.” (And the same goes for a woman cheating on her man, or same-sex cheaters. It’s the man who’s betraying his partner’s trust. If a man in a relationship cheats, it’s not The Other Woman who deserves the blame. “The LION IN WINTER” is about the same age as the Jaguar, but has Oscar cred.
TIGER LILY is timeless, as is LEOPARD PRINT. The JAGUAR XKE is a decades-old car model, but fine, whatever, XKE keeps showing up in crosswords for some reason. The other theme answers don’t scream “this puzzle is from 2011.” PUMA SNEAKERS gets an old Pelé clue but the shoes still exist.
He’s young, he’s one of those millennial hipster types (gonna kill me for saying that), and he’s not gonna think an obsolete software theme is fun to do.įurther evidence: The last of the CHEETAH GIRLS Disney Channel movies came out in 2008. I can’t imagine Caleb conceived of this puzzle in the Mavericks/Yosemite/beyond era.
The theme answers are phrases that start with big cats that are also the names of MAC OPERATING SYSTEMS. Cheetah is version 10.0 Puma, 10.1 Jaguar, 10.2 Tiger, 10.4 Leopard, 10.5 and Lion, 10.7. We’re five versions beyond that now, as Lion was released in 2011 and Apple has long since moved on to non-cat OS names. Okay, yet another NYT puzzle that feels like it’s been lying fallow for quite some time. NY Times crossword solution, 10 30 16, “Updates”