5/10/2023 0 Comments Puzzle Me This by Eli Easton![]() ![]() And it's so hard to enliven common entries like DOE and ATM, but made me laugh, and misdirects so well toward congress. Even this baseball non-enthusiast enjoyed as THIRD. Would UNLUCKY BREAKS create a stronger a-ha? VLADI MIR / RORSCHACH, MO CHA / INLET / TERSE, etc.Ī couple of great cluing touches helped liven the solve. It's a shame that they split mundanely along syllabic lines. RAIN / BOW and SHAM / ROCK fill out the concept. It'd be fun to brainstorm, trying for similarly wild splits like SHOO / TIN / GST / AR. I loved how wildly HORSESHOE broke across AB HOR / SESH / OEUF, so much so that I hardly minded OEUF, also called out on specs sheets everywhere. Being Taiwanese-American, I go both ways with lucky numbers, but I draw the line at lucky bird poop. them's the breaks for those of us from different cultures. I might have pushed to flaunt symmetry (the horror!) for this purpose. A shame that symmetry didn't allow for NUMB / ERS / EVENED. ![]() NUMB / ERSE / VENOM works, although ERSE is called out on many editors' spec sheets since dictionaries list this word as "dated." Scottish/Irish fiction fascinates me (Read The Scorpio Races!) so I'm fine with it, but it's not the best to highlight. ![]()
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