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TUESDAY PUZZLE — A handful of clues in at the moment’s crossword, which was constructed by Laura Dershewitz and Katherine Baicker, share nearly similar wording — a nod, maybe, to a unique sort of matching contained within the puzzle’s theme — so, let’s take a minute to speak about twin clues. Really, because the wording of pairs on this puzzle isn’t utterly similar, we’ll name them fraternal twin clues.
Newer solvers could marvel why, if a clue like “Fairy story monster” (36D) solves to OGRE, a later clue studying “Fairy story monsters” (47D) doesn’t resolve to “ogres,” however to GIANTS. The reply is anticlimactic, however I’m going to say it anyway: “Ogres” can be too straightforward. Clues by no means repeat by chance, and repetition exists solely to misdirect you or so as to add selection. Within the case of “Get transferring” (1A) and “Get transferring?” (6A), we now have to interpret the identical phrases in two alternative ways. To “Get transferring,” as in to journey with some urgency, is to SCOOT. However “Get transferring?” makes use of a query mark to point an unlikely, extra forceful use of the phrase: to PROD somebody — a cow, maybe — to go someplace.
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Right now’s Theme
Whether or not you discovered concerning the artwork of “fallacious argument” (34A) in your highschool debate workforce or by listening to American politicians communicate, I hope you have been capable of make use of it right here as a phonetic “trace to the solutions to the starred clues.”
At 17-Throughout, a “Mint on a pillow, perhaps?” is our first of those clues. We discover such an amenity most frequently in a HOTEL SUITE — and it occurs to be a SWEET. That makes it a HOTEL SUITE SWEET, for these following alongside. And wouldn’t you take into account “Pippi Longstocking” (27A) a sort of PIGTAIL TALE?
I belief you’re liking the sound of this. Ms. Dershewitz and Ms. Baicker have deployed an AD HOMINEM (34A) assault on our senses by including homonyms to every starred entry. My favourite of those was the spanner at 57A: “Mom superior?” is a SECOND-TO-NONE NUN.
The constructors’ argument could also be fallacious, however they win it anyway; I used to be having a lot enjoyable right here that I forgot my rebuttal.
Tough Clues
31A. “Many millennia” could take a plural in some instances, however right here the singular AEON encompasses an enormous sufficient interval to suffice.
45A. A “Professional for the pirates?” isn’t a ballplayer held up from yesterday’s crossword — the clue is merely asking for the sound of assent from an individual at sea. That’s AYE.
54A. This “Scholar with a non-public instructor” have to be trapped throughout the partitions of puzzle grids: Whereas TUTEE has appeared within the Instances crossword, I’ve by no means heard this phrase utilized in different contexts to explain such an individual.
6D. “Like checks and balances?” has nothing to do with the matters advised by its wording, sadly. This clue is simply describing PLURALs.
10D. I used to be unaware {that a} “D.I.Y. style” of any variety existed. I believed D.I.Y. was the style. The entry is HOW-TO. (What’s the opposite D.I.Y. style, then? How-to-not?)
35D. The “Portray model with abrupt transitions of colour” is named HARD-EDGE, a time period coined by an artwork critic in California in 1959.
39D. “Examination with a capital E” sounds as if it’s emphasizing the significance of an analysis. However that is simply an EYE TEST, through which one is more likely to be watching a chart of capital letters.
Constructor Notes
Laura Dershewitz: I’m so excited to be making my New York Instances Crossword debut! This is likely one of the nice highlights of my life — together with my marriage ceremony, the delivery of my son and a doughnut-tasting get together I as soon as attended. Many due to my co-constructor and pal, Kate, who taught me the best way to make crosswords. You unlocked the door to a supply of a lot pleasure and delight! Thanks additionally to Darren, my oldest crossword pal, who launched us. I’d additionally prefer to thank Christina Iverson for her help in revising the puzzle and my husband, Matt, for his help in completely the whole lot else!
Katherine Baicker: I’m thrilled to be a part of the superb Laura’s Instances debut! The theme thought was all hers, and we had enjoyable brainstorming about theme entries. Left on the cutting-room ground: “Jedi knight evening” (clued as “Free drinks for members of the Order!”), “Up-in-the-air inheritor” (“Plot abstract of Succession?”) and “Finished-for 4” (“Losers within the Elite Eight”), amongst others. Our collaborations have appeared in a number of different retailers, and we work collectively on every facet of our puzzles, passing grids forwards and backwards after which writing clues in a shared spreadsheet — cracking one another up, if nobody else.
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