![]() ![]() BUTTER, the answer to the second part of that clue, was easy enough, but it took crosses to figure out that “Little tyke” meant PEANUT. Fascinatingly, you don’t actually need to know what they are while solving the across entries they are used as rebuses in the downs only.įor example, the first entry at 23-Across (digital) and 23- and 25-Across (print) has the clues “Little tyke” and “Flatter, with ‘up.’” In the center of the letter run there’s a little □ illustration, which made me try to figure out answers that might run through the letters B-E-L-L or incorporate them in some other way. Hopefully you made sense of all of the drawings I struggled with the one that goes on the shelf (it looks like a whale swimming south to me, without its frosting hat and chocolate chip eyes). So, in print, each of the eight pieces of the theme set comprises two across entries, one before and one after the drawing online, those entries are combined and clued with a / between the two parts. Don’t let me confuse you with that discrepancy: The reason for it is that digital puzzles can’t “start” an entry without a black space before it. There is also a delicious revealer at either 116- or 122-Across, depending on where you’re solving. There are eight little line drawings in eight squares of the puzzle today. The entry for “Demoralize” was unexpected - I’d associate being UNNERVEd with a bump in the night, not a low-energy manager. I wrote “fins” instead of ABES, “horror” for TERROR and “cards” instead of ISBNS I’m also not fancy enough for STAUB, and wrote “lodge” instead for the “Big name in cast-iron cookware.” Continuing with culinary confusion, “Some ranges” had me thinking of mountain groups rather than oven brand names (AMANA). Overall, I think that most of the challenge today is the theme set, but I encountered some misdirections here and there. There is a numbering discrepancy between the digital and print versions of this puzzle because of how the theme set works, so to avoid confusion I’ll just repeat the clues that I found most difficult. She presented a working version and solicited suggestions for theme entries back then, so you could say the recipe for this puzzle underwent lengthy development. Kinnel had a video celebration with some friends. According to its print introduction, this puzzle was already underway last New Year’s Eve, when Ms. This is her fifth Times crossword, her fourth Sunday one and her third terrifically executed rebus puzzle. SUNDAY PUZZLE - Laura Taylor Kinnel is a math teacher and the director of studies at a Quaker boarding school in Newtown, Pa.
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