Helped to make up for some of the short glue I had to wade through.įantastic clue for NEST. I loved getting THE ROBOT, some yummy SCHMEAR, and even ANAGRAMS, with an homage to crosswords of the past. of organic chemistry, says that he never used the term when teaching - it was always "O-chem" - but his former students now use ORGO exclusively in their text messages. ADDED NOTE: Reader Larry Byrd, a retired prof. I took a lot of organic chemistry, but I couldn't remember anyone ever calling it ORGO. It's so difficult to fill around fixed shapes. Will Shortz recently mentioned that he's shying away from puzzles that have themers making patterns in grids like this, because of the glue they force. SSRS at the top of your grid isn't a great way to headline, and there was enough ABBR ISR OFA STS YRS - all things called out on editors' spec sheets - to bog me down. That did necessitate some trade-offs, though. I don't think it was necessary to place all the bubbled words symmetrically, but it added a touch of elegance. Note how consistent he was in his orientations, the synonyms always starting in the west and traveling clockwise: FRACAS, FUSS, HUBBUB, UPROAR, STIR, RUMPUS.
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I also appreciate the new initiative of sending the puzzle PDF to constructors a couple weeks before publication so that we can let the editors know if there are any changes we would like to be made. Thanks, as always, to the editorial team for their work I especially like the clue, which they added. The interlocking geometry of the theme entries is simply incompatible with many words (including some of my favorites: BALLYHOO, BROUHAHA, HULLABALOO, and HURLY-BURLY - it seems that certain letters really evoke a commotion!). Without that flexibility, I might not have been able to fill the grid, because this type of theme is very constraining. It's a common answer, so this gave me many options. To brainstorm potential words for the loops, I went on XWord Info to look up all the ways that ADO has been clued in past crosswords. This puzzle finally gave me the chance to do it! Ever since solving David Steinberg's excellent FROOT LOOPS puzzle, I've thought about using some sort of loop-based trick.
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