9/4/2023 0 Comments Turns outward crosswordAD SITES (19A: Craigslist and others) feels like a stretch too: You post ads on Craigslist, but do people commonly call it an AD SITE? You post videos on YouTube, but it doesn't mean VIDEO SITE would make for a great crossword entry. NO SEATS doesn't strike me as an in-the-language phrase. Among the long ones, STAND TO REASON (20A: Make sense) is okay, but it feels like it's missing an S at the end of "stand" - you say "it stands to reason," not "I stand to reason." OOLITES and SNEERER (29D: Elvis Presley, notably) and DETERGE (38A: Wash) and RETEAM (40A: Join up for another collaboration) are all jammed together in the southeast corner. Plenty of other answers just weren't doing it for me either. Strangely, OUTSKIP is only one letter off from OUTSLIP, which I'm sure could just as easily be clued as. It's the bizarro version of the more commonly used "skip out." My gut tells me that you're just as likely to hear or use OUTSKIP as you are other words like OUTSIT or OUTPUNCH or OUTFROWN. Act up, act out, act natural, yes, but ACT MAD? When would you even say that? ( Steven Seagal, I'd love for you to act mad in this scene, could you do that for me?) And OUTSKIP? Yeah, I guess that's a word. ACTS MAD (3D: Pretends to be sore) and OUTSKIP (16A: Defeat in a jump-rope competition, say) both feel completely contrived as phrases. I have no doubt that this kind of puzzle will appeal to many different solvers, but I vastly prefer 68- or 72-word themeless puzzles to this variety because the fill often suffers too much when the word count gets too low. Puzzle better than the 2012 one, but ultimately I have the same problem with both of them: Way too many compromises in the fill for my taste to make it all To accommodate the four wide open corners. That puzzle forced together a lot of rather unexciting filler answers In all seriousness, you might recall that today's puzzle bears a strong resemblance In a 15x15 puzzle (50 words) and ties Joe's previously held recordįor most black square clusters resembling someone giving you the finger This puzzle breaks the NYT record for fewest answers Pick any particular constructing feat -for instance, fewest black squares, most black squares, quintuple stacks - and Joe has likely done it, or come close. Joe is well-known for building grids that set records for standard-size I'll get to why in a little bit, but first, a little bit of background. While I appreciate the fact that Joe Krozel tries to push the boundaries of crossword construction, I'm not really a fan of record-setting stunt puzzles like this one.
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