Paleos did not create the misspelling himself. The first of these nontypos is FROOT LOOPS, clued as “Breakfast cereal with a toucan mascot ,” where 69A is that cheeky SIC letting you know Mr. Each theme entry is a proper noun that includes a “misspelling” of another English word. Paleos’s fault, as he cleverly informs us at 69A with the clue “” for the entry SIC. This puzzle is an editor’s worst nightmare - we’ve got five theme entries that are all misspelled! Oh, wait, hold on: It appears that these spellings are not Mr. This clue, “Like many of Horace’s works,” refers to ODIC, which Merriam-Webster defines as “of, relating to, or forming an ode.” Today’s Theme This isn’t my favorite crossword entry, but it has appeared 116 times in the New York Times Crossword I think I may just need to get over it. In the analogy “Trois : French :: _ : German,” you’ll need to identify the German word for “three,” because “trois” is three in French. Clue-of-the-day alert: “A sight for sore eyes?” is the clue for OPTICIAN, someone a person with sore eyes (from, say, too much time spent staring at tiny crossword clues on a screen) might be delighted to, well, see.ĥ8D. It turns out that mining ORES produces an incredible amount of waste, much of which is toxic or otherwise environmentally harmful. I didn’t really get this one, so I did a little internet searching. “A lot of these tend to go to waste” is the clue for ORES. And if you’re solving on paper, use a magnifying glass like some kind of crossword detective! Anyway, the more you know. These options are available only in the app, so if you’re solving on a laptop, you may need to make do with using your web browser’s settings to zoom in on the clues. I really like the “Dark” color theme, which appears as a dark gray grid with white letters, instead of a white grid with black letters. In the app, there’s an easy fix for this: If you click on the settings icon in the top right, you can adjust both the clue size (hello, “Larger” option) and the color theme. I find that the clues are pretty tiny when I solve online, and that their light gray color doesn’t help much. My favorite clue today was 24D, which inspired me to dig around the online solving interface and the Crossword app to see whether there was anything to be done for my own sore eyes (and poor eyesight) when solving digitally. Paleos has done an impressive job of nailing Wednesdays - puzzles that are more challenging than Mondays and Tuesdays but that don’t have the fiendish wordplay trick of a Thursday. Most constructors tend to spread their puzzles out across the week. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you.WEDNESDAY PUZZLE - Welcome back to Michael Paleos, a constructor who, as he points out in his notes below, is making his fourth Wednesday appearance (and fifth total) in the New York Times Crossword. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. If you know the answer to this week's challenge, submit it here by Thursday, March 23 at 3 p.m. The second is more likely to be in your refrigerator. One product is something you'd probably see in your bathroom. This week's challenge: Name two well-known commercial products in five letters whose names are anagrams of each other. The letter Y isn't used.Ĭhallenge answer: Ukraine -> Korean Lebanon ->Albanian No extra consonants can appear in either name. In each case, the consonants in the name of the country are the same consonants in the same order as those in the nationality of another country. Name two countries that have consonyms that are nationalities of other countries. Last week's challenge: Last week's challenge was a spinoff of Will's on-air puzzle. You give me another word starting with B that can follow my two to complete compound words or familiar two-word phrases.Įx. On-air challenge: I'm going to give you two words starting with B.
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